Conservatives Use Clinton Speech To Pretend Background Checks Are Required For Every Gun Sale

[Robb]

Conservatives are using a comment from former President Bill Clinton's speech at the memorial celebrating the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington to falsely suggest that background checks are required for all gun sales.

During his speech, Clinton stated, "A great democracy does not make it harder to vote than to buy an assault weapon."

Clinton appeared to refer to two conservative legislative priorities: Their passage in several states of voter ID laws and other laws that make it harder for people to vote, especially low income and minority voters; and their effort to block earlier this year federal legislation to strengthen and expand the background check system to prevent felons and the dangerously mentally ill from purchasing firearms.

Responding to Clinton's comment, Fox News contributor Erick Erickson facetiously wrote on his RedState.com blog that Clinton had "called for the elimination of background checks to purchase guns." Erickson claims that "purchases of firearms in every state must go through a firearms background check"...

...In fact, under federal law background checks are only required on those who seek to purchase a firearm from a licensed dealer; no such check is needed for those who buy them from private sellers, including at gun shows and online.

Read More: http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/08/28/conservatives-use-clinton-speech-to-pretend-bac/195648

[JustAnotherGen]

1. Erickson

Needs a muzzle and to sit on his hands. It's this nonsense that people read/listen to that lowers intelligence.

You notice - he didn't say a damn thing the voter ID laws other than to use it as a tool for his foolish agenda.