JOURNO TEST: Watch this video of an 'AR-15' shooting a watermelon and see if you can spot the error

Our sister site Bearing Arms posted about this goof in November 2017, but it’s making the rounds again this week for obvious reasons:

This is why no one trusts the media regarding guns pic.twitter.com/4ljBtdQ7wo

— Ben McDonald (@Bmac0507) February 24, 2018

That, as everyone should know, is not an AR-15. Maybe this should be a test that every journo has to pass before talking about guns?

If you can watch this and not get why this is true (and funny), you're part of the problem: https://t.co/OpjrbGpd9q

— Rod Dreher (@roddreher) February 25, 2018

Well, at least she was half-true:

She got the watermelon part right, but an AR-15??? ?https://t.co/UVmrB7h5KZ

— Chaos (@Chaosxsilencer) February 25, 2018

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