They try to keep a veil on their hostility to all forms of gun ownership, but it seeps through.
Few months ago there was a news article about how some disgruntled student got hold of an inline muzzleloader and walked onto his college campus.
For such a short article, I was impressed, they played up every fear-loaded word they could think of. "Terror scare", they even included terror scare. They had it all. "Deadly", "assault", you name it.
The agenda in this supposedly unbiased article was obvious, they didn't even try to hide it: they implied muzzleloaders were too easy to get and should be restricted like other guns.
And still we have people saying "Oh, that's because the media just don't know any better." Really? I thought when you didn't know any better and were trying to report the news, you erred on the side of neutrality. Silly me.
No surprise there, it seems your average consumer of these news articles thinks the NRA sets up vending machines to sell MAC10's on every street corner. Cause, you know, it's not like there's already some 20,000 gun control laws that might restrict their sale.