ABC's Good Morning America "re-creation" equips LAX shooter with military assault rifle complete with 40mm grenade launcher

By Bob Owens | 3:22 PM | November 04, 2013

ABC’s Good Morning America took a great deal of liberty with reality this morning, creating a computer animation that equipped Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) shooting suspect Paul Ciancia not with the Smith & Wesson M&P15 modern sporting rifle that he actually used, but instead with a military M16 selective-fire assault rifle and m-203 40mm grenade laucher.

WRONG. @GMA @ABC there was NO grenade launcher on #LaxShooting rifle as you depicted in this morning's animation. pic.twitter.com/K1xREHY7Is

— Todd 'MJ' Schnitt (@toddschnitt) November 4, 2013

It’s nice to know that a major network still retains such great creative license as part of their news programming.

11/5 Update: Change image link to embedded tweet.

Bob Owens is the Editor of BearingArms.com. Bob is a graduate of roughly 400 hours of professional firearms training classes, including square range and force-on force work with handguns and carbines. He is a past volunteer instructor with Project Appleseed. He most recently received his Vehicle Close Quarters Combat Instructor certification from Centrifuge Training, and is the author of the short e-book, So You Want to Own a Gun. He can be found on Twitter at bob_owens.