[PJ-Comix]

Here is the comment on the muzzle analysis by the Media Research Center:

Upon looking at the MRC videotape frame by frame, with the first rifle you could see a puff of smoke coming out of the end of the barrel as the deputy fired. But with the second gun, you could not see anything, as if no bullet were being fired.

[AdamSelene235]

Bang!

Just watched it.

Outrageous.

[Political Junkie Too]

As long as we're on the topic of the Media Research Center and falsified TV reports, recall this comment just last week on how the Jayson Blair/New York Times type of fabrication “is much less likely to happen” in broadcast journalism.

How prophetic.

-PJ

[visualops]

Well, the camera angle for the second firing has the light wall in the background, so I couldn't see any smoke. The compression is high- the quality is ppor. If one saw the original videotape then you could probably see quite well.

[backhoe]

Let's add some relevant links to flesh out the story:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/915473/posts
Florida: Broward sheriff's role in CNN gun show upsets NRA ["honest misunderstanding"]
Sun-Sentinel ^ | May 21, 2003


http://www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=16124
CNN 'backpedals' on gun story -Admits it misled viewers in comparing different types of weapons
Source: World Net Daily
URL Source: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp? ARTICLE_ID=32677
Published: May 20, 2003
There is nothing new about this. Back when CNN was lying about the "Operation Tailwind" thing we caught them rigging their own gun control polls. They would continue to run polls asking loaded questions to try and get a majority calling for more gun laws,and they had to keep taking the polls down for "technical reasons" when they didn't get the numbers they wanted. They finally resorted to putting one poll back up after "fixing the software glitch",and the buttons for "yes" and "no" were reversed. A "no" vote was logged as a "yes" vote.


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/915105/posts
CNN 'backpedals' on gun story: Admits it misled viewers in comparing different types of weapons
WorldNetDaily ^ | May 20, 2003
"This story is gathering steam. CNN got caught red-handed perpetrating FRAUD."
You forgot to add the AGAIN....


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/914941/posts
CNN Concedes, Sort of, Distorted "Assault Weapon" Demonstration (CNN Fraud Alert!!!)
Media Research Center ^ | May 20, 2003 | Brent Baker


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/914996/posts
Transcript: Wayne LaPierre (NRA) Accuses CNN Of FRAUD (MUST READ! MUST READ!!!)
CNN ^ | May 16, 2003
Well, it did turn out that CNN FAKED that story. They tried to downplay it yesterday but FRAUD was committed. Please don't let this story of CNN FRAUD fade away!


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/914912/posts
Why No One Shoots Straight on Guns
TimesOnlineEdition ^ | May 20,2003 | Karen Tumulty


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/914823/posts
CNN rapped over gun segment
The Washington Times ^ | 5/19/2003 | Robert Stacy McCain
CNN got busted. They were exposed finally as the liberal liars they are. One of the "call ins" said he doesn't have a gun, won't own one, isn't a member of the NRA but he's making sure all of his friends are watching this controvery unfold. It's a major disaster for CNN and in my opinion, much worse than a writer not knowing which way a house points to a field such as what was written in the New York Times.


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/914248/posts
He's fast on draw with message
Seattle Post Intelligencer | May 19, 2003 | Brad Wong


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/914606/posts
Author Accuses Media of Intentional Bias Against Guns
CNSNews.com ^ | 5/20/03 | Jeff Johnson


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/914571/posts
New York Gun Control Alert! Call and Write Your Representatives!
"So now the "ballistic identification" law is going to include shotguns."
Last time I looked there was no rifling in any shotgun I own. But don't expect Schumer and The Worlds smartist woman Hillary to figure that one out...


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/914495/posts
CNN RETRACTS ATTACK ON ASSAULT WEAPONS
Unnamed | therut
Synopsis:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/914495/posts?page=15#15


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/914511/posts
An assault on common sense (about ban an assault weapons)
Townhall.com ^ | May 19, 2003 | Rich Lowry
Only in Washington would it be considered imperative to extend legislation precisely because it's been so ineffectual...
One new horrendous Columbine and your logic flies out the window with RINO spines in congress.


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/914165/posts
CNN "Doctoring" of News Re Assault Gun Legislation
Freedomlover's AM Radio | Today | Freedomlover


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/914244/posts
Poe's "Lost Interview" with G. Gordon Liddy on "The 7 Myths of Gun Control"
RichardPoe.com ^ | May 19, 2003 | Richard Poe
"[The Seven Myths of Gun Control] should be in every single home.

[MediaMole]

I'm not sure about an AK-47, but an ar-15 needs a blank firing adapter to cycle the action when blanks are used. It is a device which attaches to the muzzle to increase gas pressure.

If blanks were used, there would likely be something over the muzzle.

[warmath]

Unbelievable! Somebody's trying to rally the sheep!

[cavtrooper21]

CNN at it again (like this is really news!)

[Orwellian]

It looked to me like the recoil on the deputy was real. If You notice the muzzle on each rifle the first one had the original model compensator. The original model was pretty much nothing at all or a slant to decrease muzzle climb. All the gas goes out the muzzle except the stuff used to cycle the weapon. The second rifle had the AK-74 stlye compensator. This is consider by many to be the best compensator in the world (maybe excluding the browning BOSS although that has more to do with tuning bullets to the rifle). Gas is channeled out the sides as well as the front. This could be an explanation why you can not see smoke from the muzzle. Mind you this is a muzzle compensator which is designed to make recoil push straight back instead of making the muzzle climb or come off target as opposed to a muzzle brake which catches some of the gas pulling the rifle forward somewhat to decrease recoil. That being said I think this deputy intentionally missed and CNN then intentionally showed the bricks to make it appear as though the bullets did no damage.

[Shooter 2.5]

One thing that hasn't been discussed is the Sheriff's department and CNN knew they were going to film a difference in power between two rifles with identical barrel lengths and calibers or else they would never have been there in the first place.

The Sheriff and his deputies know enough about firearms and they set up a fraud. The reporter and the crew were told enough information about the two identical rifles and they were able to film the fraud that they wanted.

This wasn't a case of a mistaken film sequence. This was a premeditated fraud.

The reporter, his crew and his boss should be fired immediately.

The Sheriff and his deputies should be fired for the fraud and their inability to testify in a court of law. If I was an opposing lawyer, I would use this to indict the Sheriff's department every time I went up against one of them in a courtroom.

[timestax]

CNNLIES

Lies bigtime. Another day, another lie, or two!

[Reagan is King]

What a pantload! The deputy missed the blocks on purpose, probably on instruction from the sheriff (an ex-Democrat legislator no less).

Fraud, just what you'd expect from CNN and a Democrat.

[Kay Soze]

With the second rifle he never hit the blocks with any rounds.

Which is why they would not show what it would do on the vested test dummy.

[quietolong]

GD were is the shovel alert!
So much BS came out of my speakers & monitor. It’ll take a day to shovel it all out! ;)

[xm177e2]

Incredible!