It sure seems like they are. The blog Little Green Footballs has found two separate examples of Reuters cropping out weapons, blood, and even bodies. It was also found that the AP published one of the photos uncropped, raising yet another eyebrow as to why Reuters would be cropping these weapons out. View the first photo here and the second photohere.
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