USA Today published a video on Twitter that claimed that a chainsaw bayonet could be attached to an existing AR rifle.
The rifle was the model used in the recent mass shooting at a Texas church that killed more than two dozen people.
A look at the gun used in the Texas church shooting. https://t.co/xdxIf5fR77 pic.twitter.com/sUY1mCCLZC
— USA TODAY (@USATODAY) November 8, 2017
After becoming the butt of countless jokes, USA Today later admitted that the mass shooter did not use a chainsaw bayonet in his attack, but maintained it could be a gun attachment.
Critics pointed out that a chainsaw bayonet is something in Hollywood movies, and is not used by rifle owners.
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