The Rachel Maddow blog on MSNBC passed the buck in several directions after wrongly reporting that attendees at this past weekend’s NRA convention in Nashville were prohibited from following local gun laws:
Correction/Update: Rather than leaving a confusing series of updates, let’s summarize what we now know. The original report from the New York Daily News, which said the NRA had “banned working guns” from the convention, was inaccurate – Tennessee’s open-carry laws still apply at the NRA event… Similarly, when The Tennessean reported, “All guns on the convention floor will be non-operational,” that referred to the guns on display at exhibitors, not the guns attendees bring themselves…
Meanwhile, The New York Times Editorial Board was forced to rewrite the lede of an April 10 editorial and post a correction.
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