Mini Mike lies about gun background checks during Fox News town hall

"Go and get me my pudding, you billionaire"

Billionaire Democratic presidential candidate [Mini] Mike Bloomberg knows as much about guns as blowfish know about algebra.

On Monday at a Fox News town hall, the former New York mayor, known best for his ban on large gulp sodas and stance on the Second Amendment, said that background checks are not required to be done on gun show sales or over the internet. He falsely claimed that background checks on sales at gun stores require these checks, but not in the other two cases.

"You cannot buy a gun in a gun store where they won't do a background check. And all they do is look for those three categories—if you're a minor, if you have psychiatric problems, or if you have a criminal record," Bloomberg said, personally qualifying in the second aforementioned criteria. "The law does not apply to guns sold over the internet or in gun shows."

Federally licensed gun dealers are required by federal law to conduct background checks on gun sales, regardless of where they take place. Under federal law, non-licensed individuals are not required to conduct background checks on intrastate gun sales between one another.

There is no special exception in federal law for sales made at gun stores or over the internet. Some states require background checks on non-licensed sales as well, and gun-control advocates want a federal law requiring the same, so Bloomberg is talking out of his nether regions and continues to screw up the basic facts on the gun debate, proving that in this great country of ours, even a moron can become a billionaire.

Bloomberg consistently screws up the way the background check system works and also tends to make up a "loophole" in the federal gun laws. His crazy claims about youth firearm ownership and his ongoing misstatements show that his "life's work" needs a workover.

He even went on during the town hall to throw the bull and say that federal law doesn't apply to internet and gun show sales because the internet and gun shows did not exist when the federal background check law was passed in 1993.

Maybe it's time for Bloomberg to step down from the apple crate and bow out. But hey, I'm not a Democrat and, according to Donna Brazile [aka Hillary Clinton's question provider], I better keep my mouth shut and mind my business. After all, it isn't as if Democrats ever say anything about GOP campaigns. Right?

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