During his announcement today that he would be using executive action to expand background checks and strengthen federal gun control laws, president Obama told the audience what amounts to a barefaced lie.
"A violent felon can buy a gun over the Internet with no background check, no questions asked," the president said during today's press conference.
The White House followed up on the president's statement by repeating it on Twitter:
"A violent felon can buy the exact same weapon over the internet with no background check, no questions asked." —@POTUS #StopGunViolence
The president's statement isn't even remotely true. The law requires all online gun purchases to go through an individual or company with a Federal Firearms License (FFL). Before the purchase can be completed, the FFL holder must run a background check, just as if the person had purchased the firearm in-store.
The "fact-checkers" aught to have a field-day with this whopper.
SmythRadio comment:
Sorta obama is right and wrong. There it's no background check From the online store. However, by law the gun must be debt to a dealer with a FFL certification on file. You then go pick it up from the dealer who by law makes you do an online background check on his computer.
Brian P. Smyth
Watch President Obama lie about purchasing firearms online
