We can find the story now, but we remember one of the major outlets running a piece on a Middle Eastern woman showing reporters the bullets that had hit her home. Plenty chimed in to say that the only way those bullets hit her home is if someone threw them at it, as they hadn’t been fired.
VICE has a piece out about an attack on the Mexican compound of Ovidio Guzmán, son of “El Chapo.” “The early morning visitors to Ovidio Guzmán’s mansion didn’t knock. They opened fire, riddling the massive wood double doors with hundreds of bullet holes, leaving one side hanging precariously by one hinge,” writes Luis Chaparro.
There are plenty of photos to accompany the piece, including this shot of a high-caliber bullet that didn’t quite make it all the way through the gate it had been “shot” at.
Did the reporter put the unfired bullet in that hole for the pic? C’mon 🤣 pic.twitter.com/OeJqe4gEzw
— Hodgetwins (@hodgetwins) January 23, 2023
Shit like this is just 1 example of why nobody trusts the media anymore
— Hodgetwins (@hodgetwins) January 23, 2023
Embarrassing
— E (@ElijahSchaffer) January 23, 2023
The media's understanding of firearms is hilarious at best.
— Carpe Donktum🔹 (@CarpeDonktum) January 23, 2023
This can’t be real 😂
— Jacob miller (@justaspinoff) January 23, 2023
Where can I get this reusable ammo?
— CM (@njoyzgrl81) January 23, 2023
Why is the shell still……..
— Joshua .k..b (@Coffee_Ops777) January 23, 2023
Vice has no journalistic integrity at all, and I mean absolutely none
— nv (@nvanwyen) January 23, 2023
That a double-assault bullet. It fires a bullet inside a bullet and the second one waits until an innocent target walks by before firing again.
— Libertarian Party Mises Caucus (@LPMisesCaucus) January 23, 2023
— IG: DJKOMMOTION (@DJKommotion) January 23, 2023
Is this real?
— Archway Defense (@ArchwayDefense) January 23, 2023
I guess the round was thrown rather than fired from a gun.
— $Kekin (@Kekin41) January 23, 2023
Looks like it was fired from one of those new assault pistols.
— James O. (@JamesO54368225) January 23, 2023
That is called a cartridge. Which is an assembly of components including case, primer, powder and lastly the projectile or bullet.
— Dave B (@beringer77) January 23, 2023
Wow – someone threw that complete bullet and casing very hard
— Joseph Nations (@JosephNationsAK) January 23, 2023
They use a full bullet to show the size of the round fired. They obviously can't use the actual bullet fired (needle in a haystack) and its just easier to use an unfired round for the shot since they wouldn't have to open one and spill gunpowder.
— The Great Cleric of Lady Luck (@TGClericOLL) January 23, 2023
Lol. Because using a coin or a finger would be too hard.
— VBL’s Ghost (@Sorenthek) January 23, 2023
They were trying to show what a high-caliber bullet it really was … like, really high caliber.
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President Joe Biden’s legislation makes it illegal for there to be more than eight bullets in a round, OK? https://t.co/k5swIZQ5Uy
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