Watch: CNN 'Expert' Tells the Biggest Gun Lie So Far in School Shooting Coverage - We've Never Even Heard This One Before

On Wednesday morning, America awoke to yet another horrifying scene: a gunman opened fire during Mass at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis, where students had gathered for one of the first services of the school year.

By 11 a.m. ET, officials confirmed the shooter was dead and several were injured, though the exact number of casualties was unclear. What authorities had not yet disclosed was that the suspect was a disturbed transgender former student, steeped in anti-God, anti-Jewish, and anti-Trump rhetoric, who had left deranged messages scrawled on his firearms. Those details would eventually surface — and prove deeply inconvenient for the establishment media’s preferred narrative.

Faced with the reality that a Christian institution had been deliberately targeted, CNN chose the path it so often takes: shift the spotlight away from ideology and place it squarely on the guns.

Neighbors described the chaos vividly. One said he heard “maybe 30 to 50” shots that lasted “three minutes or four, I mean, which is a long time for live gunfire.” A CBS local reporter recalled seeing “people with looks of just shock and horror on their face witnessing this unfold in real time” outside the school.

But when CNN’s “senior justice correspondent” Evan Perez was brought in to provide analysis, the network went beyond its usual anti-gun spin — it crossed into outright misinformation.

Perez launched into boilerplate commentary about how the FBI studies mass shooters, claiming that perpetrators exploit environments where “there’s nobody there to challenge them” and that such attacks continue “sometimes until they run out of bullets.”

Anchor Pamela Brown then referenced the neighbor’s observation that the gunman had reloaded multiple times and appeared to be using a semi-automatic rifle. Perez’s response was astonishing:

“These things can shoot dozens of bullets in just one trigger pull, right? And so what happens in this case is sometimes they have enough time to reload,” Perez declared.

That assertion is patently false. A semi-automatic rifle fires one round per trigger pull. Period. The firearm automatically chambers the next round — but it does not unleash “dozens of bullets” with a single squeeze of the trigger. Perez was describing fully automatic weapons, or machine guns, which have been tightly restricted in the United States since the mid-1980s. They are prohibitively expensive, rarely owned, and almost never used in mass shootings.

In other words, CNN’s top “justice correspondent” didn’t just get a technical detail wrong — he spread a dangerous falsehood to millions of viewers, misleading them about the very weapons at the center of today’s gun-control debates.

The irony? The neighbor quoted by CNN, with no title and no national platform, displayed a clearer understanding of firearms than the network’s senior correspondent.

Yet no correction was issued. Brown nodded along, Perez continued unchallenged, and CNN’s viewers were left with the impression that semi-automatic rifles are essentially machine guns.

This isn’t a minor slip-up. It’s part of a long pattern where corporate media deliberately blurs the distinction between legal semi-automatic firearms and illegal automatic weapons to gin up support for sweeping gun bans. President Joe Biden’s administration, before being ousted, leaned heavily on this deception to justify unconstitutional restrictions. Now, the media class is carrying the same torch.

President Donald Trump has repeatedly called out this kind of deliberate disinformation campaign, warning that gun rights are under constant siege not from facts, but from coordinated propaganda. Wednesday morning’s CNN coverage was a textbook case in point.

At a time when children were bleeding in a Catholic school, CNN chose not to focus on the ideology or background of the shooter but instead used the tragedy to mislead Americans about the Second Amendment.

It’s not journalism — it’s narrative warfare.