Brady Campaign Changes Their Tune On Bogus Background Check Number

By Tom Knighton

For some time, anti-gunners have been claiming that something like 40 percent of all legal gun sales are conducted without a background check. Now, most gun owners know that number is absolutely laughable. Remarkably few sales are private transactions, which are the only ones legally not required to conduct a NICS background check and we know it. We know it because we know where people tend to buy guns.

It now seems like the Brady Campaign, who has long touted the bogus figure, may be backing off on it.

As Guns.com notes:

But Brown does say something that goes against long-established Brady dogma when it comes to the actual number of gun sales that are done in the country without a background check. Over the past several years, the organization has maintained that “40 percent of guns now sold in America are done so without a Brady background check.” The statement is under their current key statistics and has been consistently mentioned in press releases in 2014, 2015, 2016, and in recent years.

This comes after fact checkers from Politifact, the Washington Post Fact Checker and FactCheck.org …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms