On Thursday, NBC News botched the details of whether the recent California shooter was able to legally possess or manufacture firearms.
In a story about the firearms used by Kevin Janson Neal during his murderous rampage in northern California on Tuesday, NBC News made misleading claims and failed to report important details.
Neal had been charged with five felonies and two misdemeanors stemming from a January incident, in which he was accused of stabbing a neighbor. A judge had ordered him to turn over his firearms and issued a restraining order that prohibited him from possessing any firearms, CBS News and the Associated Press report. A second report from the two news agencies claim police seized a rifle from Neal during his arrest, and he subsequently surrendered a handgun in compliance with the order.
Despite this, police said Neal committed his mass shooting with a pair of home-built AR-15 rifles and a pair of handguns that were registered to somebody else in California.
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