The Top 10 Gun Myths The Left Would Have You Believe Without Question

[M]

First lets list the top 10 Myths the Left would have you believe Without Question Even Though They Are Falsehoods;

Myth No. 1: Firearm purchases at gun shows do not require a background check due to the “gun show loophole.”

 

Myth No. 2: Gun shows lack any law enforcement presence and are a free-for-all for felons and other prohibited individuals to obtain firearms.

 

Myth No. 3: Individuals who purchase firearms on the Internet are not subject to background checks.

 

Myth No. 4: The president’s Jan. 5 executive action on gun control represents landmark change regarding gun control.

 

Myth No. 5: The Obama administration has made firearms enforcement a priority.

 

Myth No. 6: Mental health has nothing to do with gun control.

 

Myth No. 7: Obama’s executive action on gun control will thwart criminals’ ability to obtain firearms.

 

Myth No. 8: There is a general consensus in America that greater gun control is needed to prevent mass shootings in the United States.

 

Myth No. 9: The terrorist “no-fly” list is a proper mechanism to bar Americans from purchasing firearms. —Obama, Jan. 5

 

Myth No. 10: Gun retailers need to step up and refuse to sell semi-automatic weapons. —Obama, Jan. 5

 

Ok, lets take these in order and try to see why and where they are wrong.

Myth 1. There is NO GUN SHOW LOOPHOLE! Everyone who buys a gun from a Licensed Dealer must by existing Federal Law go through a background check before the Dealer can sell the gun to the person period. No Exceptions! 

The Fallacy that Gun Show Dealers don't do this is absurd. The real reason Obama wants to do this is to stop private sales between law abiding adults. Unless a Gun Show allows private sales on their property, and most do not, the Gun Show is being used as a piece of Anti-Gun Propaganda Rhetoric.

Current law allows a private individual to sell all or part of his personal guns without an FFL or paperwork unless they are engaged in the business of selling guns. this does not include handguns since every State has different laws concerning the transfer of a handgun including necessary paperwork. Also selling outside a persons State is not allowed under the law unless it is between FFL holders. Since the 1968 laws were enacted no Mail order guns can be bought and sold without going through FFL licensed people. It's already illegal to privately sell a gun to anyone a person knows to be ineligible to own or purchase one.

 

Myth 2. Many Law enforcement personnel are in attendance either in uniform or in plainclothes to stop any violations like straw purchases etc.

 

Myth 3. You can't do it without the gun going to a FFL dealer for the requisite paperwork and background checks mandated by Federal Law being completed. ATF Form 4473, which initiates the NICS background check process No individuals can sell guns through the internet out of State without them going through FFL dealers for the same reasons. 

 

Myth 4. This one depends on how the Executive Order is enforced. Will the sale of one gun between neighbors bring down the wrath of the DOJ,FBI,BATFE? Although the latest order SEEMS TO be more rhetoric and restatement of existing Court rulings on "Engaged in the Business of " nothing has been codified on what is and what is not to be done. What happens when a Zealot decides to use this to put everyone who sells a gun in jail. the precedent for this is the harsh treatment that happens when a paperwork error happens through accident.

 

Myth 5. This does not seem to be the case. Weapons violations have really declined during the Obama Administration. I cite the New Black Panther at the Pennsylvania polls that was armed and was a convicted Felon at the time he was photographed with a weapon in his possession. that is a Felony in and of itself, but the DOJ declined to act on it. FOIA reveals that the incidence is down about 25%.

 

Myth 6. Mental Health has everything to do with Gun Control. People with certain mental disorders like senility are already prohibited from owning guns. However there are no guidelines written hard and fast as to what the criterion for prohibition of gun ownership is the guidelines and only the guidelines that will be used. There are no laws on the books that mandate that Mental Health Records, with the proper controls in place to prevent abuse, be shared with the NICS and there are also no laws that allow a person to contest the rulings. those issues must be addressed first.

 

Myth 7. Nothing in the Presidents executive order deals effectively with the main source of gun violence, the criminal element. It only focuses on the law abiding people who go through background checks. WHY? Criminals don'y usually try to buy guns legally and they don't have much trouble getting the Illegal Ones Law Abiding Citizens Don't have access to.

 

Myth 8. Not only is that a glaringly False statement, most Americans think just the opposite. Most Americans also are against the Ban of Semi-Automatic Assault look alike weapons. If you remember the last ban, the figures did not change when they were banned. I believe that they think we are forgetting about that fiasco.

 

Myth 9. Not only is there no one list, there are many lists controlled by Bureaucrats that are beholden to the Executive Branch for their jobs. SCOTUS has ruled Second Amendment Rights are fundamental rights and it's Unconstitutional to deprive Americans of those rights without notifying them and allowing their rebuttal to be heard. To date, there are many people erroneously placed on a no fly list. What about their rights?

 

Myth 10. I would like to know where Obama comes off telling businessmen they should not sell something that is perfectly legal just because he doesn't like that product. If he were to get a ban on Semi-Automatic look alike rifles, he could extend that ban to shotguns and normal sporting rifles, possibly even semi-automatic pistols. 

 

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Source; Heritage Foundation.

Flanked by families who lost loved ones to mass shootings, President Barack Obama fought back tears as he announced a unilateral push to curb crimes committed with guns and called for a renewed national “sense of urgency” on the issue.

At his press conference Tuesday, Obama outlined immediate executive actions to expand existing background checks, close loopholes, and increase mental health funding to prevent “gun violence”—all without going to Congress for legislation.

But at the same time, Obama admitted that more significant gun control “won’t happen in my presidency.” He underscored what he called the need for future congressional action and said Republican lawmakers are being “held hostage by the gun lobby.”  

The Daily Signal reviewed four of the president’s key points against available data:

1. Claim: “We are the only advanced country on Earth that sees this kind of mass violence erupt with this kind of frequency. It doesn’t happen in other advanced countries. It’s not even close.”

Obama adjusted an often made, often questioned argument that America is the only modern nation to suffer from epidemic gun violence. His current talking point is a combination of two discredited claims.

Speaking of the San Bernardino massacre, just weeks after the Nov. 13 terror attacks that left 130 dead in Paris, Obama still said “mass shootings just [don’t] happen in other countries.” That claim earned him four Pinocchios as a “whopper” of a falsehood from The Washington Post’s “Fact Checker” column.

Backpedaling, the White House later said the president meant to address the frequency of shootings in the U.S. compared to other nations. Again, “Fact Checker” columnist Glenn Kessler criticized this as a likely “apples-to-oranges comparison” and gave the president two Pinocchios for “significant omissions and/or exaggerations.”

2. Claim: “The problem is, some gun sellers have been operating under a different set of rules. A violent felon can buy the exact same weapon over the Internet with no background check, no questions asked.”

That’s not exactly factual, according to an August 2013 report by The Washington Post. Purchasing a gun online from a federal firearms license holder or a vendor across state lines does require a background check.

To avoid a background check, a buyer would have to meet with the seller in person to purchase the firearm. As the Post notes, “that would be a private sale and federal law wouldn’t require a background check.”

Several states already require their own background checks for firearms sales—some for all guns, others only for handguns. Additionally, it’s a felony to sell guns knowingly to someone with a criminal record or history of mental health problems.

Most criminals do their illegal gun shopping on the streets, not online, research shows.

A study last year by the University of Chicago Crime Lab found that most criminals said they don’t get their weapons from gun shows or order them online, the Chicago Sun-Times reported. Instead, they buy the guns from those close to them or other criminals.

In a survey of about 100 prisoners, the lab found, 70 percent said they received guns from friends, family, and fellow gang members.

3. Claim: “If there’s an app that can help us find a missing tablet,” Obama said,  “there’s no reason we can’t do it with a stolen gun.” Just as a child “can’t open a bottle of aspirin,” he added,  a child shouldn’t be able to “pull a trigger on a gun.”

Technology to make firearms more like iPads and Tylenol bottles isn’t commercially available. None of the so-called smart guns—which require entry of a fingerprint or other biometric signal before firing—is on the market.

The earliest and leading version of the smart gun, the Armatix iP1, has been found wanting. In an exclusive performance review, a subsidiary of the National Rifle Association dismissed the weapon as “disappointing at best, and alarming at worst.”

Although the NRA’s assessment is biased, the economic component speaks for itself. The current price tag for the Armatix iP1: $1,798.

Smart gun technology would do little to affect civilian guns in circulation across the country. A 2012 Congressional Research Servicereport concluded that 310 million guns were in private hands in America in 2009.

During the Obama administration, however, demand for and manufacturing of firearms has only increased.

4. Claim: “And the constant excuses for inaction no longer do, no longer suffice. That’s why we are here today. Not to debate the last mass shooting, but to do something to prevent the next one.”

To make the case for stricter gun controls and increased background checks, the president enumerated every mass shooting from 2009 at Fort Hood, Texas, to last month in San Bernardino, Calif.

Through executive action, Obama said the FBI and Bureau of Alcohol. Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives would hire more than 200 employees to ensure “effective enforcement of gun safety laws that are already on the books.”

According to a Washington Times report, however, existing gun laws failed in most of the cases listed by Obama.

Background checks either were easily flouted or found entirely ineffective.

And none of the attackers, the Times reported, purchased his gun or guns through “the so-called gun-show loophole” that the president said he seeks to close.

[Virginia Foulk]

Nice list and follow up.

[M]

Virginia,

Please feel free to pass it around

[Virginia Foulk]

Thanks, will do.