27 Dec 2012 2:49 pm
As for my statement that 40% of all guns sold are sold on the secondary market with no backround checks, NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg made that statement recently and Politifact has ruled it 'mostly' true, only because the only statistics available are not very current. They aren't "current" because they aren't correct. And don't think I didn't see that little slight of hand. Your first statement was "40% of the weapons sold are sold with no backround checks at all", and now that I called you on it, you've changed that statement to "40% of all guns sold are sold on the secondary market". Notice I included your misspelling in the first quote, to ensure you don't try to spin your attempt to change what you said. By the way, since you've obviously never attempted to purchase a gun at a gun show, the guy running the booth has to call the sale in to the feds and get approval. They do it on the phone while you stand there, unless you have a concealed carry permit, which shows you've already passed the background check. So you just dropped that 40% share of the market WAY under 10%. So, in conclusion, I have to agree that you DID pull that "fact" out of your ***. Gee, I wonder why current regulations dont allow direct tallies of these sorts of gun sales? Who doesn't want us to know how many guns are being sold with no backround checks? Groups opposed to greater regulation were asked to rebut the mayors assertion and did not respond. Of course they didn't, because they know what he said was true. Because a lot of this "secondary" market is me selling a gun to my buddy John. How would anyone track that? Edited by Golfboy, 27 December 2012 - 03:53 PM.