Did you hear about the guy wearing a helmet shooting up Turnberry Towers in Las Vegas with an “AR-15” last Friday? Unless you do your own specific news searches, you probably didn’t.

ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox, NBC, MSNBC… none of them seems to be covering it for some strange reason. Normally some bad guy blasting away with one of those evil black AR-15s — especially in Vegas — gets wall-to-wall coverage, accompanied by more calls to ban ’em. But not this time. Crickets. Nowhere to be seen, other than a local report.

Here’s a hint.

The resident says it was an employee of the towers who stopped the attack, and thinks they are a hero who deserves recognition for stepping in.

Yep, effective armed self defense by a honest person carrying lawfully. They can’t afford to publicize that, even at the cost of missing a chance to demonize AR-patterns firearms. First rule of mainstream media: never admit armed defense works, especially when it may have stopped a mass shooting.

And speaking of that “AR-15″… the report does refer to the weapon as such, but I’m not so sure. Let’s check the video.

There is a pistol grip, but I see no magazine protruding. The barrel appears thin, with no shroud or gas tube. I’m not enough of a firearm ID expert to say what it is, but it doesn’t look like anything in the AR family.

 

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