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• Survey Finds Law Enforcement United Against Gun Control

  PoliceOne.com released the results of an extensive survey of about 15,000 active and retired law enforcement officers of all ranks and from departments ranging in size from less than 25 to more than 1,000. These results strongly show that law enforcement officers do not support President Obama’s gun control agenda. They do, however, strongly support the Right-to-Carry by law-abiding Americans. The survey respondents are united in their desire for politicians to focus on keeping firearms out of the hands of the mentally ill and to reject unconstitutional gun control measures that infringe on Second Amendment rights.  
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• Obama claim that 40 percent of all gun purchases are conducted without a background check gets 2 Pinocchios from Washington Post

  Earlier this week, we gave this claim a “verdict pending.” We said we faced a bit of a conundrum because the 40 percent statistic was based on a single, relatively small survey of 251 people from nearly two decades ago — but that foes of gun control had made it difficult for further research to be conducted.  
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• The ‘40 Percent’ Myth -- The figure gun-control advocates are throwing around is false.

  Gun-control advocates have recently been throwing around an impressive new number. President Obama used it last Wednesday, claiming: “as many as 40 percent of guns are purchased without a background check.” Vice President Biden and everyone from the New York Times to the Wall Street Journal to USA Today repeatedly use it. That “fact” provided the principal support for his first announced gun-control proposal, “universal background checks.” But unless you include family inheritances and gifts as “purchases,” it is simply false. 
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• Washington Post give Obama Three Pnocchios for his continued use of the claim that 40 percent of gun sales lack background checks

  Two months ago, we were willing to cut the White House some slack given the paucity of recent data. But the president's failure to acknowledge the significant questions about this old data, or its slippery phrasing, leaves us little choice but to downgrade this claim to Three Pinocchios. Three Pinocchios 
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