SHOCK: Persons obtain 7+ firearms without background check

To listen to President Obama and his gun ban extremist friends tell it for the past eight years, all we have to do to keep criminals from gaining access to firearms is to mandate that a background check be done before all transfers of firearms. Pass "universal" background checks, we're told, close the "gun show loophole," we're told, and we can stop mass shootings! Indeed, the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence (CSGV) literally says that by mandating "universal" background checks we can "guarantee that criminals, domestic abusers, the dangerously mentally ill and others are denied unchecked access to guns." (emphasis added).

Apparently someone forgot to tell thieves who used a sledge hammer to smash their way through the front of a firearms retailer that the law which mandates background checks in that gun store meant that they were "guaranteed" not to get access to the guns inside.

From WJW (Fox Cleveland):

Thieves got away with at least seven rifles from Accurate Arms and Armor on Bunker Road and investigators are concerned about what they plan to do with the guns.

As many as four suspects used a sledge hammer to smash their way into the store, grab whatever they could and made their getaway in a car that was parked in a strip mall.

Agents with the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives have placed high priority on tracking down the suspects.

According to the article, no arrests have been made and it’s unclear whether investigators are zeroing in on any suspects.

How can this be? President Obama, the CSGV and their ilk claim all we have to do to stop criminals from getting guns - the way that we can "guarantee" they don't - is to pass another law. Never mind that it there is a law in place prohibiting the breaking and entering, there is a law in place prohibiting the stealing of those guns, and there are more laws in place prohibiting the thieves from selling them.

Furthermore since it's supposedly so easy to get a gun at a gun show, one has to wonder why all the "cloak and sledgehammer" activity was necessary.

And yet they want the American people to think that a law requiring that a background check be performed on every sale would make the people buying these guns from these thieves on the street say, "I wish I could, but we need to do a background check first."

Gun ban extremists aren't worried about these criminals' stolen guns, and the fact that their laws wouldn't affect them make that obvious. What they are worried about is YOUR guns, which is why their proposals DO focus on you.

Chad D. Baus is the Buckeye Firearms Association Secretary, BFA PAC Vice Chairman, and an NRA-certified firearms instructor. He is the editor of BuckeyeFirearms.org, which received the Outdoor Writers of Ohio 2013 Supporting Member Award for Best Website.

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