Posted October 6, 2015 8:03 am by Comments

By Bob Owens

Hillary

Hillary Clinton’s campaign has released a “factsheet” entitled Hillary Clinton Believes It’s Time to Act on Gun Violence. The position paper establishes a radically left-wing, gun control agenda, while also establishing that the candidate and her staff don’t know or understand existing federal gun laws.

The most glaring example of the Clinton campaigns ignorance is it’s position on “straw purchasing.”

The Clinton campaign incredibly claims that straw purchasing is merely a “paperwork violation.”

Straw purchasing—defined as someone with a “clean” criminal record buying a firearm for a prohibited person—has been a federal felony for decades, with violators facing a sentence of up to ten years in a federal prison and a $250,000 fine for each violation.

The National Shooting Sports Foundation and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) have long maintained a web site decrying this federal crime, Don’t Lie For the Other Guy.

Clinton’s stance on background checks is also rife with ignorance.

It is estimated that 20 to 40 percent of all gun purchases in America are conducted with no background check because federal law fails to cover unlicensed transfers online, at gun shows, and between anonymous strangers.

Clinton does not cite the source of her claim …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

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