LOL. I see you noticed that too. Kind of reminds me of the Randy Weaver propaganda, how he took a shotgun, shortened the tube 1/4 inch too much for those "street gangs" in California.
I guess we were supposed to believe they still had shotguns in California, but the nearest hacksaw was in Idaho.
Propaganda is arming cops & criminals used conveniently and disarming citizens. It fits the bill of this article aiming to disarm the citizens & arm the cops against them while letting criminals roam untargeted.
This is a war between citizens & lawyers, journalists, leftist preachers & the gov, and the criminals get a pass... "domestic violence" propaganda language works very well to make this happen.