On Wednesday, CBS This Morning was the only network morning show to cover the Obama administration’s decision to drop their proposed ban on ammunition that is commonly used in the AR-15.
After the “big three” (ABC, CBS, and NBC) all ignored the bullet ban reversal during their Tuesday night broadcasts, CBS’s Charlie Rose devoted a mere 20 seconds to the decision by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, And Explosives (ATF) to not ban the specific type of ammunition. ABC's Good Morning America and NBC's Today ignored the story altogether.
From CBS This Morning:
The New York Times has new developments on the story about a proposed ban on a popular kind of bullet used in AR-15 rifles. The possible ban caused a run on the armor-piercing green tip ammo. Yesterday the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and Explosives said it is dropping the proposed ban for now. That is after an overwhelming response against the ban.
As NewsBusters’ Geoffrey Dickens noted, when the proposed ban first made headlines several weeks ago, CBS was the only broadcast network to offer reports on the Obama administration’s latest attack on the Second Amendment:
Of the Big Three (ABC, CBS, NBC) networks only CBS (in one brief and one full story totaling 3 minutes, 55 seconds) has even bothered to report about Obama’s most recent attack on 2nd Amendment rights.
--CBS is the only broadcast network, so far, to offer reports on the hot topic. On the February 27 CBS This Morning co-anchor Charlie Rose, in a 17-second brief, reported: “The New York Times says there is a run on a popular bullet used in AR-15 semiautomatic rifles. The Obama administration proposed a ban on the 5.56 millimeter green tip bullets. Now gun shops say there has been a rush to snap up cases of the bullets.”
