Word is that compliance with that last one is well under 10% so either those who comply are very lucky in finding criminals or the crime rate keeps going down for other reasons.
Notwithstanding a complete lack of hard evidence that the checks actually work, the nannies just won't give up. Former congresswoman Gabby Giffords is the current poster girl for Michael Bloomberg in D.C. where:
Yes, Loughner (who shot Giffords and several others) acquired his firearm via a background check, as did Jerad and Amanda Miller (Las Vegas), Elliot Rodger (Santa Barbara), Ivan Lopez (Fort Hood 2014), Darion Marcus Aguilar (Maryland mall), Karl Halverson Pierson (Arapahoe High School), Paul Ciancia (LAX), Aaron Alexis (DC Navy Yard), James Holmes (Aurora theater), Nidal Hasan (Fort Hood 2009), among others.If you think about it the effort serves to "stop the violence" being done to our civil rights as most gun controllers running for office are defeated when the election is honest. The universal background checks serve primarily to generate a database of gun owners. The thugs get to keep theirs.
But Giffords and her husband, Mark Kelly, stood with Democrat lawmakers to argue that expanding background checks to include gun show sales is a way of “stopping violence.”
NOTE: With the proposed ban on M855 ammo, new NRA membership sales at our table at last weeks gun show were somewhere between 3-5 times normal. You have to admit, Ol' Barry really knows how to inspire people to action. Now if the Republicans only knew how to take advantage of this.
H/T to No Lawyers, Only Guns and Money for the lead.
2 comments:
Where ( if you can say ) did you find ANY compliance numbers with the new background check law here in Colorado. I have looked in vein for any actual numbers.
My gut feeling just looking at the numbers i have seen and talking to local gunshop owners is that either everyone simply stopped selling guns privately or that its a whole lot less than 10% compliance .
Ill leave which is accurate to you to speculate on LOL
The 10% number was based on CBI's budget request data which was admittedly quite sketchy. Background checks were supposed to skyrocket when everyone, including the criminals suddenly besieged the gun shops for checks. The real numbers barely budged and were probably in line with expected demand. See the national BC demand graphs posted here elsewhere.
I won't claim the 10% number is gospel and indeed it was probably a maximum number from right after the BC bill was passed.
At this point your "whole lot less" figure is probably the more accurate.
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