{"id":2606489,"date":"2026-05-24T12:11:02","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T16:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nyt-makes-whopping-admission-on-ar-15s-ak-47s-deals-devastating-blow-to-gun-grabbers\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T12:13:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T16:13:35","slug":"nyt-makes-whopping-admission-on-ar-15s-ak-47s-deals-devastating-blow-to-gun-grabbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nyt-makes-whopping-admission-on-ar-15s-ak-47s-deals-devastating-blow-to-gun-grabbers\/","title":{"rendered":"NYT Makes Whopping Admission on AR-15s, AK-47s, Deals Devastating Blow to Gun Grabbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnyt-makes-whopping-admission-on-ar-15s-ak-47s-deals-devastating-blow-to-gun-grabbers%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2606489&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>An article from *The New York Times* is criticized for undermining gun-control arguments. The piece claims modern AK-style semiautomatic rifles are no longer as popular,arguing that the AR-15 has taken over among civilian buyers. The author argues this \u201cdecline\u201d framing is problematic for politicians and advocacy groups that seek too ban \u201cassault weapons,\u201d because it also concedes those rifles were once common and that today the AR-15 is also in common use. <\/p>\n<p>The post then contends that acknowledging firearms in widespread (\u201ccommon use\u201d) ownership conflicts with Second amendment legal standards,citing Supreme Court decisions such as *Heller* (which protects arms commonly chosen by American society) and *bruen* (which it argues makes bans on commonly owned firearms tough to sustain).It concludes that *The New York Times* admissions could hurt efforts by Democratic officials to pursue bans, suggesting such rules are likely to fail in court and comparing the situation to recent failed conceal-carry restrictions.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>The question of which outlet gun-control groups like Everytown, Giffords, and Brady United hate the most doesn\u2019t often cross the minds of gun owners, but The New York Times may have moved up that list with an article the outlet published Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Why would The New York Times make it on Michael Bloomberg\u2019s s**t list? Why might Democrat Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, and other anti-Second Amendment politicians be throwing the Old Gray Lady across the room in frustration?<\/p>\n<p>Well, the article The New York Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/05\/13\/us\/ak-47.html\">published<\/a> was on the decline in popularity of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jacob-sullum-assault-weapon-bans-look-more-legally-vulnerable-than-ever\/\" title=\"Jacob Sullum: \u201cAssault Weapon\u201d Bans Look More Legally Vulnerable Than Ever\">modern semiautomatic rifles<\/a> that superficially resemble the AK-47 family of assault rifles.<\/p>\n<p>You would think that would make someone like Schumer, who repeatedly invoked the AK to scare voters into supporting that 1994 \u201cassault weapons\u201d ban he and the late Democratic California Sen. Dianne Feinstein rammed through Congress, happy, especially in this day and age where Russia is a designated villain, but not so fast.<\/p>\n<p>The problem is that the article creates a few new hurdles for Schumer and other would-be gun banners. For starters, it acknowledges that the semiautomatic AK-style rifles were once \u201cubiquitous\u201d \u2014 that\u2019s a fancy Acela Corridor word for \u201ccommon\u201d \u2014 until the AR-15 established its dominance among the American civilian market, which creates a big problem for those who want to ban them.<\/p>\n<p>If Fox News says it, that is one thing, but for The New York Times to do so? It is a double whammy of admissions, when you reread the article (and yes, this is one New York Times article worth re-reading).<\/p>\n<p>You see, not only did the outlet acknowledge the AK was in common use around the 1990s and 2000s in Wednesday\u2019s article, but the paper also admitted in that same article that today, the AR-15 is in common use.<\/p>\n<p>I can just imagine how sharply Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger must be staring daggers at New York Times reporters for the citation their outlet just handed to those filing certain lawsuits in those states that want to ban so<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gun-sales-set-january-record-as-democrats-took-control-of-white-house-congress\/\" title=\"Gun Sales Set January Record As Democrats Took Control Of White House, Congress\">-called \u201cassault weapons<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s the big problem with that admission? Well, back in 2008, former Justice Antonin Scalia wrote the majority opinion in <a href=\"https:\/\/supreme.justia.com\/cases\/federal\/us\/554\/570\/\">Heller v. District of Columbia<\/a>, a Supreme Court decision that said what we\u2019ve known all along about the Second Amendment \u2014 it protects the right of an individual to own firearms in \u201ccommon use.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe handgun ban amounts to a prohibition of an entire class of \u2018arms\u2019 that is overwhelmingly chosen by American society for that lawful purpose,\u201d Scalia wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s where anti-Second Amendment groups will get really unhappy, though \u2014 modern semiautomatic firearms are also \u201coverwhelmingly chosen by American society.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The National Shooting Sports Foundation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nssf.org\/articles\/nssf-releases-most-recent-firearm-production-figures-3\/\">estimated<\/a> in January that there are as many as 32 million \u201cmodern sporting rifles\u201d \u2014 their term for the AR-15 and AK-style semiautomatic rifles targeted in bills like the ban Spanberger signed Thursday. To put that into perspective, Ford made about 34 million F-150 <a href=\"https:\/\/fordauthority.com\/2026\/04\/ford-f-series-sales-numbers-figures-results-first-quarter-2026-q1\/\">pickup trucks<\/a> since 1977.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone want to try to sell the notion that the Ford F-150 is somehow \u201cuncommon\u201d or \u201cunusually dangerous?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now, tack on <a href=\"https:\/\/supreme.justia.com\/cases\/federal\/us\/597\/20-843\/\">Bruen v. New York State Rifle and Pistol Association<\/a>, issued in 2022, and you can understand why Democratic New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is aggravated in Albany. Those bans on commonly owned semiautomatic firearms are going to fare no better than her \u201cvampire rule\u201d (we can just say that the rule in question met Buffy Summers) for concealed carry did \u2014 probably even worse.<\/p>\n<p>And for that, she can thank The New York Times.<\/p>\n<div class=\"disclaimer\">\n<p><em>All content created by the Daily Caller News Foundation, an independent and nonpartisan newswire service, is available without charge to any legitimate news publisher that can provide a large audience. All republished articles must include our logo, our reporter\u2019s byline and their DCNF affiliation. 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