“Every gun sold without a completed background check poses a potential risk,” said Rob Wilcox, federal legal director for the gun control advocacy group Everytown for Gun Safety. “And these staggering numbers show that we have a serious problem.” [More]
No, the serious problem would be if you could demonstrate the resultant carnage directly produced by this. The fact that you haven’t even cited one (I don’t count Sutherland Springs because time was not a factor, the Air Force withholding information that would have never shown up was), yet according to this there have been over a million “opportunities,” points to the whole purpose of this transparent propaganda piece being to gin up a hysterical demand for more controls on you and me and fewer restraints on government power.
And then they explain “the Charleston Loophole”:
The shooter had admitted to drug possession during a prior arrest, which made it illegal for him to buy or own a gun.
Anybody see Word One about Hunter Biden in all this fine “reporting”?
What else aren’t we told about? You’d think the National Institute of Justice’s 2013 “Summary of Select Firearm Violence Prevention Strategies” would at least rate a mention:
Universal background checks … Effectiveness depends on the ability to reduce straw purchasing, requiring gun registration …
No? What else would we expect from NBC News?
[Via Jess]