BuzzFeed political editor McKay Coppins has a target on his back after posting a story Thursday that turned a sardonic eye on the shooting range trips of a cadre of well-known New York journalists.
With the debate over stricter gun control in the news after the mass-shooting in Newtown, Conn., last month, the story had the potential to be explosive, but it appeared to have blown up in the author's face after the reporters in question slammed the piece's characterization of their trigger happy activities.
Foster Kamer, a former New York Observer reporter who now works for the magazine Complex, served as the leading character in the story, entitled "How Gun Culture Won Over Liberals" — and he was infuriated with his depiction.