Tuesday, January 9, 2018

Dumb Dems anti-gun plan backfires

A left-wing study meant to expose the perfidy of illegal online gun sales ended up exposing the honesty of gun sellers after investigators tried to set up scores of firearm transactions.

Sorry Dems you need to learn how to get out of your own way.

Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD), along with Sens. Elizabeth "Fauxcahontas" Warren (D-MA) and Brian Schatz (D-HI) commissioned the Government Accountability Office report to examine how online private dealers might be selling guns to people not permitted to possess them.

They based their efforts on a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) 2016 report claiming that "anonymity of the internet makes it an ideal means for prohibited individuals to obtain illegal firearms."

"Congressional requesters asked that GAO access the extent to which ATF is enforcing existing laws and investigate whether online private sellers sell firearms to people who are not allowed or eligible to possess a firearm," the report said.

After a two-and-a-half year investigation in which agents tried to buy firearms illegally on the "Surface Web" and the "Dark Web," generally letting the sellers know their status as "prohibited individuals" or trying to buy across state lines, it turns out there were not takers, or in this case, sellers willing to do business with them.

The GAO revealed that in their 72 attempts (one for each jihad virgin) outside of the dark web were all "unsuccessful."

"It's just amazing that none of the mainstream media, except for Fox News, covered this story after all the effort the Democrats made," my main man, Vinny Boombots, said. "Un-freaking-believable!"

"Private sellers on Surface Web gun forums and in classified ads were unwilling to sell a firearm to our agents that self-identified as being prohibited from possessing a firearm," the GAO reported. They also noted that in "72 attempts . . . 56 sellers refused to complete a transaction once we revealed that either the shipping address across state lines or that we were prohibited by law from owning firearms." In the other cases, the investigators' website was frozen or they encountered suspected scammers.
"Me no like Thunderstick, Keemosabi"

On the dark web, GAO agents were able to purchase two guns illegally, as the serial numbers on the weapons were "obliterated" and "shipped across state lines." BUT in the attempt to buy the weapons, the agents "did not disclose any information indicating they were prohibited from possessing a firearm."

Based on the findings, the GAO said it is "not making recommendations in this report."

The three Democratic stooges did not reply to Fox News' request for comment on the GAO's findings.

The NRA said that online sales are in fact regulated and called the study an "embarrassment" for the gun control leftists.

"GAO's findings showed nothing so much as that private sellers advertising online are knowledgeable about the law, conscientious, and self-policing.
 the NRA said, adding that online gun sales are "subject to the same federal laws that apply to any other commercial or private gun sales."



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