This Is CNN (or the Marvel-verse equivalent)
The lead story on the evening news was about a bank robbery in downtown New York. What made it the lead news story, was the fact that the people who had held up the bank, had had ray guns. Or at least that's what the witness were reporting . . . and considering that the reporter was reporting from in front of the bank, from in front of the bank which had a large, gapping, still smoking hole in the side of the building that housed said bank . . . well that lent some credence to the whole ray gun theory.
If they didn't have ray guns, they at least had something capable of knocking a hole through a cement wall.