USA Today was widely mocked on Twitter Wednesday for a graphic making it seem as if the Texas church shooter used an assault-style rifle modified with a "chainsaw bayonet."

The news organization tweeted, "A look at the gun used in the Texas church shooting," and included a video with a graphic of a Ruger AR-556 rifle with several modifications, including a chainsaw bayonet.

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



While it does appear that a chainsaw bayonet is a real modification that can be made to rifles, USA Today later tweeted a clarification saying, "To clarify, the video shows both the shooter’s modifications, as well as other possible modifications. The shooter did not use a chainsaw bayonet."

To clarify, the video shows both the shooter’s modifications, as well as other possible modifications. The shooter did not use a chainsaw bayonet. — USA TODAY (@USATODAY) November 8, 2017



The original tweet inspired a host of imaginative Twitter users to design other possible modifications to assault-style rifles that USA Today left out of their original video.

For millennial gun enthusiasts:

Wow. Millennials have now ruined guns, too. pic.twitter.com/QuD1mHzylO — Comfortably Smug (@ComfortablySmug) November 8, 2017



For use in a galaxy far, far away:

H/T @bubbaradio for creating this, the ultimate power in the universe pic.twitter.com/7AniqV1FD9 — Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) November 8, 2017



And for good measure, some terrifying, but implausible modifications:

H/T @TheAntiCrat for this homage to nature's beauty and terror pic.twitter.com/I0gYhNZ1Ig — Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) November 8, 2017