New York Times Manufactures 'Fact' Out of Thin Air, Uses It to Accuse NRA of Hypocrisy

Via The Federalist:

In a scathing editorial this morning, the New York Times editorial board excoriated the National Rifle Association (NRA) for banning all working weapons from its annual convention in Nashville this weekend:

Seventy-thousand people are expected to attend the National Rifle Association’s convention opening on Friday in Tennessee, and not one of them will be allowed to come armed with guns that can actually shoot. After all the N.R.A. propaganda about how “good guys with guns” are needed to be on guard across American life, from elementary schools to workplaces, the weekend’s gathering of disarmed conventioneers seems the ultimate in hypocrisy.

There’s only one problem: this claim is blatantly false. It is a complete lie. There is no ban, NRA-instituted or otherwise, on the carrying of working weapons at the NRA convention in Nashville this year.

Contrary to the claims of the New York Times editorial board, anyone who is licensed to carry in the state of Tennessee — including those with carry permits from states that have a reciprocity agreement with Tennessee — may carry working, loaded weapons at the convention in accordance with state and local laws. The removal of firing pins from display guns is a commonplace practice for most gun shows.

Grab any checkout counter tabloid at the grocery store and you are likely to encounter more veracity than you will on the pages of the Times. This is blatant false-narrative crafting and they still do it because they have gotten away with it for so long. If they do publish any kind of correction, you can bet it will be buried and come long after this falsehood has taken root in the minds of the readers.