An assault rifle with a reddit logo makes it to The Blaze (site founded by Glenn Beck), the Huffington Post, and Adrian Chen.

It all starts when a redditor tries to sell his assault rifle with a reddit logo in r/Gunsforsale in this link. He already deleted his account but the text is still up. Head mod of GunsAreCool u/Gabour picks up about this sale and cross posts it to his sub, note that his sub is mostly satire.

GunsAreCool regular u/xinebriated comes up with the idea to notify 'the media':

My main goal was to put some pressure on the admins about whether or not they are ok with guns sold on reddit. I know that it is legal to do an assault rifle sale without a background check, but if reddit won't allow creepshots how can they allow weapon sales?

It doesn't take long before the media starts writing about this story. Here's a screen cap of the Gawker story, written by Adrian Chen himself. He calls the Reddit Assault Rifle 'the most terrifying thing on the internet'.

After that the Huffington Post decided to pick up the story, and yup there's a video inside too. They end the article asking themselves if the reddit admins want their logo associated with 'the Newtown massace'.

The Blaze decides to join in too with an article, they even quoted Gabour himself:

“It is time for reddit to ask itself whether it is morally justifiable for it to continue to allow the sale of guns,” the Redditor Gabour wrote.

“Although I’m trying not to resort to hyperbole here, I think it fair to say that reddit has some blood on its hands for endorsing these transactions [emphasis added],” the post continued.

One of the Guns mod makes a post welcoming Gawker to reddit and not long after that GrC comes up with a mod post where Gabour complains about his sub getting brigaded again and he gives his personal opinion about Adrian Chen.

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Edit: I just found out GrC was founded by VA himself. A source who will remain anonymous pmed me the following 'statement':

VA created the sub after a gun nut called him a pedophile. He was a complex guy. He loved jerking off to ******'s with dicks, yet he yearned for sensible gun control, lulz.

I just think he deserves some savvy treatment otherwise SRS is going to shit all over him. He was a good guy. GrC is one of his legacies. Just try to understand that he took it seriously, and he was posting serious content (when he would get off his lazy ass to do it)

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Edit2: additional media are reporting the story.

The Daily Dot:

News of the AR-15 emblazoned with the Reddit mascot also came across Gawker's resident Reddit hater Adrian Chen, who in turn wrote about it while taking some cheap shots at the social news site in the process.

Msn (you're going to love the title):

Assault rifle identical to Sandy Hook weapon for sale on Reddit