VIDEO: CNN Fraudulent Assault Rifle Test (Compare The Muzzles Firing)

Media Research Center ^ | May 20, 2003

[PJ-Comix]

Check out this VIDEO of the FRAUDULENT Assault Rifle Test perpetrated by CNN last week. I urge all of you to COMPARE the muzzles of both assault rifles as they are fired. In the illegal assault rifle you can clearly see smoke exiting as if real bullets are being fired. In the second assault rifle which is described as the legal one, you see NO expulsion of fumes from the assault rifle. Were blanks used in the second rifle? You be the judge but I sure would like to see this matter investigated further. BTW, did you see how large that pile of cinder blocks was? NO WAY that Deputy Sheriff Chris Worth could have missed that large pile as was absurdly claimed.

[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.

[PJ-Comix]

Here is the frame by frame analysis of the videotape 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.

[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.

[visualops]

Yes I saw that, I figured they had access to something better than the internet stream :)

Personally, I am very wary of "demonstrations". They all tend to smack of the guy selling the car wax...

[randog]

Well, the camera angle for the second firing has the light wall in the background, so I couldn't see any smoke.

Agreed, the smoke issue can't be resolved with this video, but clearly nothing was hitting those bricks on the second round of firing. Even a .22 would have created dust and debris.

Notice, also, how the narrator changes the topic from 'firepower' to 'rounds per clip' when talking about the differences between the two guns. This whole video smells rotten.

[warmath]

Unbelievable! Somebody's trying to rally the sheep!

[PJ-Comix]

Agreed, the smoke issue can't be resolved with this video, but clearly nothing was hitting those bricks on the second round of firing.

That was a very large pile of cinder blocks. I don't know how that Deputy (Chris Worth) could have missed every shot. Was he ordered to miss?

[jonascord]

Back in the "Old Corps", a field expedient BFA for an M-16 could be had by firing a blank, racking the operating handle, and catching the spent case. One would then use a bayonet to cut the base off the empty, and then use the bayonet to unscrew the flash hider. You would then put the base, primer side up, on the end of the muzzle, and screw the flash hider back down. One would then point the weapon in a safe direction and use another blank to blow out the primer, and the restriction of the flash hole was enough to cycle the action. Since we were the first squad of the 2nd platoon, we always got to be the Aggressors, and probably fired 10 times the blanks of the rest of the Battalion.

(If you forgot and fired a live round, you caught the bolt carrier group under the right eye...)

[cavtrooper21]

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

[longtermmemmory]

Date-li"e"-ne rides again!

Sherrie Jenne is a democrat?

[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.

[PJ-Comix]

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.

That was a pretty big pile of cinder blocks. Very hard to miss. And if the deputy did miss, then it should have been mentioned in the original report and not implied that the bullets did no damage to the cinder blocks.

[cavtrooper21]

Problem is, the retraction is not publicized as well as the original story, so most of the sheeple never see it. Which is almost as good as not having made one.... Which means they get away with lying. Like they lose any sleep over that!

[Orwellian]

I think this is intentionally misleading (the report). That deputy hit the trauma plate on the vest three for three. The CNN crew did not pan back from the shooter to show impact like they did with the first rifle. If they did I think the impact on the dirt wall would have been visible. I think this is deliberate fraud. I was just pointing out that it could have been live rounds and not blanks that were fired.