An anti-gun reporter gets an education...

I go through life constantly being surprised. Tuesday evening, for example, I stopped by Koscielski's Guns and Ammo shop on Chicago Avenue in south Minneapolis, figuring there would be a big truck backed up to the door, with suddenly-legal weaponry being lugged into the store.

I figured that everything from grenades to machine guns would be available to the gun crowd, given the fact that our stalwarts in Washington allowed the federal ban on assault weapons to bleed to death as of Monday.

It's rare to see a "journalist" admit to being wrong about an issue like this. On the other hand, if just a little visit to a gun store could dispell this person's prejudices and provide accurate information about the law, why did this visit not take place before the law expired, while "journalists" were desperately seeking to prop up the law?

Fact is, this guy went out to take pictures of "evil black guns" being sold following the expiration of the ban. He got an education instead, and for that we should be thankful -- but it's not why he went to the store, and he clearly didn't bother to investigate the law before it expired. Apparantly assumptions made in ignorance are good enough to write newsvocacy pieces.