Pro-Gun Blogger Exacts Retractions From NY Times, MSNBC

posted on April 15, 2015
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After The New York Times and other national media outlets gleefully (and falsely) attacked the NRA’s “hypocrisy” for supposedly allowing firearms at certain events and venues but not others during the NRA Annual Meetings & Exhibits in Nashville last weekend, pro-Second Amendment blogger Bob Owens set “The Gray Lady” straight and demanded a retraction of their story. 

He also exposed as a lie the claim by Bloomberg’s anti-gun group Moms Demand Action that they were leading a protest by some 400 people in Nashville against the NRA. As Owens’ bird’s-eye-view photo of the protest showed, Everytown had succeeded in assembling just a fraction of the protesters it had claimed.

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