5 Indefensible Tweets From The NRA Since The Oregon Gun Massacre

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3. Since when is the truth indefensible?

These unregulated “private sales” of guns also take place on the internet or other physical locations. The NRA disingenuously claims that these additional loopholes mean that there isn’t a specific gun show loophole.

I would like to see a cite to this claim about the nra. Another poster in this group calls uncited claims a "liars link": http://www.democraticunderground.com/1172176951#post19

In any case, congress never intended to legislate private sales with the original brady bill, therefore it can not be a loophole. What it amounts to, is anti-gunners are complaining because of private sales which were not intended by congress to be legislated in the first place.

The NRA isolates the category “rifles” to make guns seem relatively safe — there are around 250-350 homicides with rifles each year — but this just reflects the popularity of handguns over rifles.

Everyone knows why this argument is made, including think progress. Its not a matter of 'making rifles seem safe, as TP claims. Its done to show the lunacy of proposing to ban a subset of all rifles. And it succeeds quite thoroughly at doing so, which earns it the moniker 'indefensible'.

Overall, “3 out of 10 guns that criminals use in crimes changed hands at a gun show somewhere in their chain of custody.”

So what? "fear fear fear!"