Even Politifact Won’t Cover For Obama’s Anti-Gun Nonsense

By Tom Knighton

Just last week, former President Barack Obama spouted a pile of nonsense about guns. Obama’s done that for years, of course. This time, he claimed anyone could get a gun at any time.

It was a blatant lie. Obama knows damn good and well that there are rules in place that legally prevent a number of people from buying guns, yet he claimed there weren’t.

It was a lie so blatant that even left-leaning Politifact refused to provide any real cover for the former president.

“Anybody can buy any weapon at any time.”

No, not anybody. Federal law bans many kinds of people from buying weapons. A list by the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives includes: anyone convicted in any court and sentenced to a year or more in prison; anyone with a dishonorable military discharge; anyone convicted of domestic violence or subject to a court order against harassing or threatening an intimate partner; anyone addicted to a controlled drug or has been committed to a mental institution.

An article in The Federalist, a conservative website, noted that people “under 21 years of age may not purchase handguns from a gun dealer,” and those …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms