27 Dec 2012 1:55 pm
MistyBlue, on 27 Dec 2012 - 14:12, said:40% of the weapons sold are sold with no backround checks at all, thanks to things like the gun show loophole, which the NRA fights to keep in effect, even though 74% of NRA members believe that loophole needs to be closed.Links to support these claims, or are these more liberal "everyone knows" statistics?I don't pull facts out of my *** Goofboy.When I say something, I can back it up.Maybe, if you ever watched anything but Fox News, you'd have heard these statistics by now.Republican Pollster Frank Luntz recently conducted a poll of NRA members and other gun owners.It showed strong support for common sense gun laws and exposed a significant divide between rank-and-file members and NRA leadership.Among the surveys key findings:87 percent of NRA members agree that support for Second Amendment rights goes hand-in-hand with keeping guns out of the hands of criminals.There is very strong support for criminal background checks among NRA members and gun owners:74 percent of NRA members and 87 percent of non-NRA gun owners support requiring criminal background checks of anyone purchasing a gun.79 percent of NRA members and 80 percent of non-NRA gun owners support requiring gun retailers to perform background checks on all employees a measure recently endorsed by the National Shooting Sports Foundation, the trade association for the firearms industry.http://www.mayorsaga.../pr006-12.shtmlAs 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.Mayor Bloomberg said 40 percent of gun sales take place through gun shows or the Internet.The best information on the informal gun market is based on a survey and is about 15 years old. Current regulations dont allow direct tallies of sales of this sort. An undercover investigation found a great deal of internet activity, but it was sponsored by a mayor who seeks greater regulation. Groups opposed to greater regulation were asked to rebut the mayors assertion and did not respond.http://www.politifac...ent-guns-are-s/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.