Hickenlooper Wrong On Universal Background Check Impact

By Tom Knighton

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Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper is one of the Democrats hoping to be president. While he lacks the name recognizing of a Joe Biden or Elizabeth Warren, he does have a name that sounds like the town drunk in an old western movie.

Regardless, he also has his anti-gun credentials handy. Strong ones, in fact, and that seems to be a requirement to be considered a viable candidate for the Democrats in 2020.

However, while touting his anti-gun street cred, he may have overstated the impact of his state’s universal background checks just a tad.

Hickenlooper has repeatedly touted his signature on a universal background check measure. He has said the law was important because background checks in Colorado have prevented people from purchasing guns and that the system in place beforehand didn’t require checks on half of all gun sales.

“In a state like Colorado with 5.5 million people, there were 38 people in 2012 who—and we only got to half the gun purchases—but there were 38 people convicted of homicides who tried to buy a gun and we stopped them,” Hickenlooper told The Electables podcast last month.

In 2013, then-governor Hickenlooper signed two new gun-control …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms