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Dear media: Please brush up on the basics of firearms

By Becket Adams
Published March 27, 2018 12:23am ET
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Dear media: Please brush up on the basics of firearms
In this photo taken March 15, 2017, Karl Sorken, production manager for Battle Rifle Co., based in Webster, Texas, works on the rails of an AR-15 style rifle. Battle Rifle is one of now more than 10,000 gunmakers in the United States. President Donald Trump promised to revive manufacturing in the U.S., but one sector is poised to shrink under his watch: the gun industry. Fears of limits on guns led to a surge in demand during President Barack Obama’s tenure and manufacturers leapt to keep up. | (AP Photo/Lisa Marie Pane)

Years ago, when the gun violence debate wasn’t a constant fixture in the weekly news cycle, it was possible to excuse or forgive journalists’ general illiteracy regarding firearms.

But after several recent and fiercely discussed mass shooting events in the U.S., after all these innocent people have been cut down by deranged gunmen, what’s the excuse for it?

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