Gun Control Supporters Admit Lying About Background Checks For 20+ Years

By Bob Owens

Gun control fanatics have been lying about the percentage of firearms purchased without a background check since Bill Clinton was the President as an excuse to call for so-called “universal” background checks.

After 22 years, they’re finally admitting that their statistically-invalid and event-limited figure—using information prior to the creation of the National InstaCheck System (NICS) implemented by all gun dealers nationwide in 1998—was dishonest all along.

Instead of the old lie, they’re pushing a new probable falsehood.

The share of Americans who obtained a gun without first undergoing a background check is dramatically lower than previous estimates, researchers at Harvard and Northeastern universities have determined. The finding reshapes one of the most prominent assumptions of the US gun control debate.

Just 22% of current gun owners who acquired a firearm within the past two years did so without a background check, according to a new national survey by public health researchers at Harvard and Northeastern universities shared in advance with the Trace and the Guardian.

For years, politicians and researchers have estimated that as many as 40% of gun transfers are conducted without a background check – a statistic based on an extrapolation from a 1994 survey. Gun rights activists had …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms