In journalism the truth no longer matters. What matters is twisting the story to advance the agenda. Their agenda is removing all means of resistance. Words have meaning. The refinement of their word choice is intentional and meant to encompass their agenda. Moving from assault weapons to long guns is one example. Another example I have noticed but don't hear much about is the use of "Democratic candidate" to describe the Democrat party's candidate. It is not the Democratic candidate, it is the Democrat candidate.