SHOCK: Persons obtain 70+ firearms without background check

According to so-called "common-sense" gun control extremists like Mark Kelley's "Americans for Responsible Solutions," 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 ARS website literally says that by mandating "universal" background checks we can "ensure that guns stay out of the hands of those prohibited by federal law." (emphasis added).

Apparently someone forgot to tell thieves who forced entry into an Eastlake, OH firearms retailer that the law which mandates background checks in that gun store meant that they were "ensured" not to get access to the guns inside.

From WEWS (ABC Cleveland):

The guns were stolen from Sherwin Shooting Sports on Vine Street around 3 a.m. Thursday.

Authorities say unknown individuals forcibly gained entry into the building. The ATF reported that 60 handguns and 10 long guns were stolen but Eastlake police say 60 guns total were stolen.

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The ATF is offering a reward of up to $5,000, which will be matched by the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) for a possible reward of $10,000.

According to the article, no arrests have been made, though Cleveland police say some of the guns have already been recovered.

How can this be? Mark Kelley, the ARSes and their ilk claim all we have to do to stop criminals from getting guns - the way that we can "ensure" 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 "zero dark thirty" activity was necessary. Why, if it's so easy for criminals to obtain guns in the absense of a "universal" background check law, does the ATF say that firearms stolen during FFL burglaries have risen by 72.53% since 2012, and that firearms stolen during FFL robberies have risen by 213.56% since 2012?

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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