Obama's Claims About Internet Gun Sales Are False:
Yesterday President Obama dramatically announced a handful of executive branch actions related to the sale of guns.
The media event was comprehensively staged and included a social media push. Using the hash tag #StopGunViolence, the White House tweeted several dozen quotes and claims about guns. One in particular stood out:
In fact, it is illegal for violent felons to purchase guns.
And no one can just order guns off the Internet without going through a background check.
Far from it.
Internet gun purchases are relatively rare, but when they happen, the purchased items aren’t sent directly to the buyer but first must be sent to a dealer holding a federal firearms license.
Such gun transactions processed by a federal firearms license holder must include a background check, regardless of whether the sale is across state lines or not.
Gun transactions across state lines must be processed in the home state of the recipient.
So if you purchase a gun off the Internet from a different state, it will be sent to a federal firearms license holder in your state, and you would not be allowed to take possession of it until a background check is done on you.
Lots more. Read on!
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