I have been a devotee of gun ranges for over 50 years. During that time I’ve been around .22 plinking ranges with the boy scouts. I have stood in pastures and shot at beer cans with pistols.  I have run police pistol qualification ranges with a dozen shooters on the line. I have taught tactical firearms on ranges with automatic weapons going off. They all have one thing in common. They are LOUD.  

The trick to doing an interview on a gun range is to do it when nobody is shooting. Here’s a secret, modern noise canceling ear protectors mitigate the sounds of gunfire, while amplifying spoken commands. No, they don’t pick one in favor of the other. Both the gunshot and spoken word are reduced to lower decibels when they occur at the same time.

It is apparent that the noted firearms experts at MSNBC were unfamiliar with the fact that guns go bang Live! From Indoor gun range. 

This video is an effective demonstration of what MSNBC knows about firearms.  They try to conduct an interview while the range if “Hot”, that is while there is active shooting.

Needless to say, the interview is unintelligible.  What a great word! In this case two meanings apply. (1) It means that the conversation is garbled and obscured by the sounds of gunfire.  Had the discussion been held in a room, so quiet you could “hear a mouse pissing on cotton”, the results would have been the same.  (2) In those conditions however, the interview would have been unintelligible because the content was incoherent.  

Why would anybody of normal intellect give them credibility?