CBS News Badly Misfires With “The Most Heavily Armed States In America”

By Bob Owens

CBS News has published what they probably intended as a fear-mongering piece called “Most Heavily Armed States In America.”

It purports to tell us which states have the most guns per capita but the “journalists” who put this together made a major mistake, seemingly obvious mistake.

Can you spot it right away?

As America reels from yet another mass shooting, inevitable questions resurface about guns laws and the nation’s pervasive firearm culture. Here is a look at the 30 states with the most guns per capita, according to the ATF’s National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record, and 2013 data from the U.S. Census Bureau.

How did they screw up this report so spectacularly?

These giants of journalism with “layers of editors and fact checkers,” confused the tiny list of items registered as NFA items under the National Firearms Act of 1934 as being a registry of all guns in the United States.

There’s only a few problems with that.

1. There is no federal registry of all firearms.
2. The National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record only counts machine guns, short-barreled rifles and shotguns, “any other weapons,” and silencers.
3. The vast majority of the items …Read the Rest

   Source:: Bearing Arms