Give MSNBC an opportunity to blame guns for a shooting and they will take advantage every time. On the December 23 edition of Ronan Farrow Daily, guest host Ayman Mohyeldin declared that the “NYPD shooting this past weekend is one case where gun laws somehow failed.”

In an apparent effort to promote its association with the digital media company Vocativ, the network turned the tragedy into a gun control issue. Mohyeldin led into a report from Vocativ by making a completely unfounded assertion about how the shooter, Ismaaiyl Brinsley, got his weapon: “It could have been through the black market or the so-called private sale loophole. That means private sellers don't have to do background checks.”

Mohyeldin ended his introduction of the segment by highlighting MSNBC’s association with the media company: “Our partners at Vocativ have this report on just how easy it can be to buy a firearm no matter what your history is.”

The report described how a woman with a history of mental problems was able to successfully purchase a gun with little difficulty. While the report seems to indicate that the clerk didn’t follow the law appropriately – he did not ask her if she had been committed to a mental institution, as he is required to – Vocativ and MSNBC were still willing to place blame on the law itself.

MSNBC, and specifically Ronan Farrow Daily, has used Vocativ to link MMA to the Boston Marathon terrorists and for a bizarre piece on BronyCon, a collection of male adults obsessed with “My Little Pony.”

The relevant transcript of the segment is below.