Bernie Sanders Vows To Make Straw Purchases Illegal. Yes, Really

By Tom Knighton

Bernie Sanders is characterized by some, including myself, as something of a doddering old man. He’s like the Grandpa on The Simpsons who may well yell at clouds at any given point.

Unfortunately, a lot of people are taking him seriously. He almost won the Democratic nomination in 2016 and he’s still up in the lead pack this time around. As a result, it’s no surprise that he’s talking about gun control. After all, it’s apparently a requirement to be anti-gun in order to run this year.

However, Bernie did himself no favors in his latest comments about gun control.

Sanders touted Medicare for All, as well as proposals for gun control. He called for expanding background checks, banning “assault weapons,” ending the “gun show loophole” that allows people to purchase guns at gun shows without background checks, and for shutting down what he called the “straw man provision” — which he claimed would allow someone to “walk into a gun store, buy a dozen guns, and sell those guns to criminal elements.”

(In fact, according to the pro-gun control Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, straw purchases are already illegal under federal law: “Federal law …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms