Washington Times: NYT, others making up stories of Navy Yard shooter trying to buy AR-15

It seems the so-called “mainstream media” — known here as the Democrat-media complex — is so intent on linking Navy Yard shooter Aaron Alexis to an AR-15 that it is literally making things up.

So says Emily Miller at the Washington Times, who excoriated the New York Times for shoody journalism in its reporting of the AR-15 that didn’t exist.

“The New York Times attempts to give the impression that a so-called assault-weapon law stopped Alexis from buying a rifle in Virginia, but that is not true,” Miller said.

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She added:

The Times has a story Tuesday on its homepage with the headline “State Law Stopped Gunman From Buying Rifle, Officials Say.”

The first line says: “The gunman who killed 12 people at the Washington Navy Yard on Monday test fired an AR-15 assault rifle at a Virginia gun store last week but was stopped from buying one because state law there prohibits the sale of such weapons to out-of-state buyers, according to two senior law enforcement officials.”

Apparently neither the reporter nor his editors took the time to fact check their vague “law enforcement officials” sources.