I'm shocked. CBS ran another heavily biased anti-gun hit piece filled with lies and half truths. If 60 Minutes reporters weren't all over 85 years old, I'd think that Sarah Brady and Michael Moore were staff writers over there.

Fifteen years ago, Osama bin Laden sent one of his operatives to the United States to buy and bring back two-dozen .50-caliber rifles, a gun that can kill someone from over a mile away and even bring down an airplane.

Um, that would be the U.S. Military providing arms to Afghanistan to fight off the Ruskies. Killing a man 5,280 feet away is damn hard and requires years of training and a helluva lot of luck. And there has never been (and probably will never be) a case of a plane downed using a .50 caliber rifle. For starters, hitting a fast moving plane with anything "dumb" (non-tracking) is really really hard, much less with a single shot sniper rifle. Anti-aircraft artillery and even guns on fighter jets usually require hundreds of rounds to shoot down an airplane, and they're usually 20mm or larger and fired en masse. Using a single shot sniper rifle that required accuracy and timing would be a gun of last resort, probably ranking just above throwing a rock at it.

In spite of all the recent efforts to curb terrorism, bin Laden could do the same thing today, because buying and shipping the world's most powerful sniper rifle is not as difficult as you might think.

Thanks to CBS for proving once again that reporters know nothing about guns and have probably never even set foot in a gun store. I'm pretty confident that if Osama bin Laden ever walked into a gun store today, he'd be carried out in several little bags.

But as Say Uncle notes, the timing of the CBS report fits nicely into the United Nation's agenda to ban small arms, and DiFi's agenda to ban .50 caliber rifles on the federal level.