Gun show loop hole lie.....just another excuse to try to get people in trouble...

[2aguy]

this article looks at the myth of the gun show loop hole and why it isn't about criminals...but again, about getting normal, law abiding people in trouble for having guns....

Pushing the Gun Show Loophole Again Still - The Truth About Guns


I’m not certain where those numbers are coming from. Here are the numbers currently published by FBI, for a period of approximately the past 15 years. They show, for example, and average of 120 denials per day for felons. Perhaps Rep. Thompson is working from a different data set. Regardless, the numbers are largely meaningless, for two reasons:

1. By and large, criminals don’t attempt to obtain firearms through licensed dealers. In fact, fewer than 15% do so. The rest obtain firearms from friends and family, the black market (i.e. the street), or through theft. To the extent that the Brady Bill impacted the ability of so-called “prohibited persons” from obtaining firearms, it merely created a minor shift. Prior to federal background checks, around 20% of criminals obtained firearms through commercial sales; afterward, that number dropped to about 14%. According to the FBI Firearm Violence report, that number dropped to 11.3% by 2004.
2. NICS denials don’t lead to prosecution when so-called “prohibited persons” violate the law by attempting to purchase a firearm. As NRA-ILA pointed out last year: “Out of 72,659 NICS denials in 2010, for example, only 62 led to federal prosecutions. Of these prosecutions, only 13 led to convictions.“

And as a bonus, thousands of NICS denials are actually false positives. According to the 2012 FBI NICS Operations Report, some 4,000 denials were overturned out of over 26,000 appeals of over 88,000 denials.

So in summary, background checks merely drive criminals to other means of obtaining firearms, do not result in prosecution of criminals who illegally attempt to purchase firearms, and create an unnecessary and undue burden on the law-abiding who are merely attempting to exercise a constitutionally protected right.

 

[Geaux4it]

As a poster here often said that gun grabbers can only argue from emotion and or dishonesty

-Geaux