“The Makarov misfired.”
Why consider only gunshots? Harrison Ford went through this scenario in the film “Air Force One”. His SS turned on him, going down in a blaze of glory. It’s best to know your adversaries, and Ford’s character was an intellect who was educated in many areas.
That some measly little newspaper invites such an agenda - they are scraping the bottom of the barrel, then eating the wood.
You can tell it was fiction, Makarov’s don’t “misfire”.