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FAKE NEWS: 20-year-old who claims he was able to buy an AR-15 in 5 minutes … wasn't

As of this writing, “investigative photojournalist” Cody Davis has racked up more than 8,000 retweets and 11,000 likes for this tweet, in which he claims he was able to buy an AR-15 in five minutes with an expired ID at age 20.

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https://twitter.com/usaphotodude/status/965435269838262272

There’s just one thing wrong with that headline: he wasn’t able to buy an AR-15 in 5 minutes.

What she said. Davis wrote at The Tab two years ago (the tweet’s new, the story is not) that he was in a gun shop in Virginia for only 5 minutes, but he didn’t buy a gun. The dealer showed him a gun and let him take a photo, but he didn’t even fill out the paperwork:

After he walked me through the paperwork, all five pages of it, I told him I changed my mind and wanted to think more before I bought an AR-15. He told me it wasn’t a problem and listed the store hours if I wanted to come back. I then said thank you and walked back to my car.

Seconds. It took seconds for the salesman to take an AR-15 off the shelf and begin selling it to me. If I had stayed for maybe three minutes longer to fill out less paperwork than I did for the hiring process at my school’s bookstore, I would’ve driven home with an AR-15.

No delay. No extensive background check. Just my recently expired driver’s license, my vehicle registration, and filling out some paperwork.

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So, um, that would make the headline about being able to buy an AR-15 in 5 minutes a flat-out lie.

https://twitter.com/plasmarob/status/966113529680994305

https://twitter.com/ruthven78/status/965851592929959937

https://twitter.com/k_ovfefe/status/966111861711261696

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https://twitter.com/Bagehot99/status/966105959981637633

https://twitter.com/Dr_2A/status/966036518770040833

What’s really frightening is all of the people who read the headline and believed it.

Yes, literally unbelievable. But let’s pass some more laws based on fake news.


Related:

Washington’s attorney general explains how 18-year-olds can get an AR-15 in ‘minutes’

FAKE NEWS: CBS News says it’s easier to buy an ‘assault rifle’ than cold medicine

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