Chris W. Cox Lies and Twists His Way into a Bizarre Reality

The Cap Times Gun control advocates, such as Rep. Terese Berceau, D-Madison, frequently use discredited and false information to push their gun control schemes. Here are the facts. Berceau’s claim, pushed also by the Brady Campaign, that the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) has stopped more than 2 million would-be gun purchases sure sounds impressive — only it isn’t true. The fact is the vast majority of the 2.1 million people flagged by NICS are either legitimate purchasers (who are snagged by mistake) or criminals who are then turned loose to obtain firearms elsewhere, rather than being prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. For example, in 2010, only 62 out of 72,659 NICS denials led to prosecutions by the federal government — and only 13 of those prosecutions resulted in a conviction. That’s 0.0001 percent.
First they drop the unsubstantiated claim that part of the "vast majority" of those blocked are really legitimate purchasers who are flagged by mistake. Then they focus on the fact that the criminals who are blocked are not arrested and prosecuted for lying on the form.

This is extremely misleading. The background check has done its job by preventing the purchase. To blame the background check system for the fact that criminals have so many other options to buy guns is wrong.  In fact, it's doubly wrong since the number one option criminals have is to buy a gun privately without a background check.  So, the genius argument of the NRA is to blame the Brady Background check system for the fact that it's not universally required, something gun control folks have been fighting for and the NRA has been resisting.

The most recent Department of Justice survey of 1,402 convicted criminals found that nearly 90 percent of them got their guns from sources including theft, straw purchases, family, friends and the black market. None of these would have been blocked by NICS. If Rep. Berceau truly wants to keep guns out of the wrong hands, she would challenge Biden and the Obama administration on their admitted refusal to prosecute those they know may be attempting to purchase a firearm illegally. Instead, she’s calling for a so-called “universal background checks” scheme, which has more to do with registering and criminalizing lawful transfers than reducing violent crime. This is the kind of circular logic that boggles the mind. The first paragraph offers a sort-of tautology. As convicted criminals, the only way they CANNOT get guns is from licensed dealers who require a background check, hence the list of possible ways, "theft, straw purchases, family, friends and the black market."
The next paragraph contains the mind-blower. Prosecuting people for lying on a government form would not prevent them from attempting to procure guns through "theft, straw purchases, family, friends and the black market."
And the conclusion:
The goal of anti-gun is to harass law-abiding gun owners and manufacture public shame toward anyone who exercises their Second Amendment rights. They can try by hook or by crook, but the National Rifle Association won’t them get away with it.
Yes, the poor persecuted gun owners are being shamed and harassed.  But, not to worry, the NRA is there to protect them from this terrible abuse.