NYT's fact checker gone for the holiday; blogger fills in
“The Court and the Second Amendment”
Editorial
New York Times
November 21, 2007
At issue is a 2-to-1 ruling last March by the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit that found unconstitutional a law barring handguns in homes and requiring that shotguns and rifles be stored with trigger locks or disassembled. The ruling upheld a radical decision by a federal trial judge, who struck down the 31-year-old gun control law on spurious grounds that conform with the agenda of the anti-gun control lobby but cry out for rejection by the Supreme Court. [Emphasis added.]
Uh, no. The trial judge upheld the District’s gun control law, and the Court of Appeals reversed.
I wrote the NYT’s public editor and informed him of the error. (I also took a screen shot of the factually-challenged editorial, in case it goes down the memory hole.) But isn’t it embarrassing that a multi-million dollar enterprise has to be corrected by an amateur blogger?