Friday, November 07, 2008

And he says this with a straight face?

I believe he does...

Obama has said he supports an individual's rights to own guns with reasonable restrictions, so it seems that a "narrow subsection" of gun owners are afraid of being denied access to assault weapons, said Doug Pennington, spokesman for the Brady Campaign, which supported the weapons ban.


You know what this is? This is what is commonly referred to as a lie. Ever since the AWB expired, the guns it proscribed — as well as the guns that are proscribed in HR 1022 — have come to be the best-selling weapons in the country, no doubt due in no small part to groups like the Organization Formerly Known as Handgun Control agitating for them to be banned. So I'd say it's more than just a "narrow subsection" of gun owners who are afraid of being told they can't buy those guns anymore. I see the AP hack didn't bother to find any kind of figures that contradicted his claim. So much for the press looking for both sides of the story...