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Recently, firearms manufacture Colt declared that they will be suspending consumer sales of their classic AR-15 rifle citing “significant” competition in the modern sporting rifle market. Of course, once the liberal media learned of this, they took a victory lap of sorts on Thursday. Both ABC and CBS highlighted Colt’s decision, with the former seemingly making up a quote from Colt’s CEO.
“The AR-15 is among the most lethal and most popular guns you can buy in America with 11 million currently on the streets,” CBS correspondent Jeff Pegues grimly declared as he began his CBS Evening News report. While he was presenting such rifles as a scourge “on the streets”, the reality was, rifles made up a fraction of gun violence.
Pegues touted the growing “backlash” to “military-style weapons” and the calls from a failed Senate candidate for their confiscation.
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