Yep, it's the company line all right. Kelly will be around for a while.
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Obama criticized for using dated, disputed gun stat to sell background checks
Read more:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013...#ixzz2PPbcZ4vS
Some choice excerpts:
- During several speeches, Obama has said 40 percent of all gun purchases were made without a background check. But that number is nearly two decades old and comes from a poll with a relatively tiny sample size.
- The oft-cited figure, it turns out, was
pulled from a 1997 study done by the National Institute of Justice
. In the study, researchers estimated about 40 percent of all firearm sales took place through people other than licensed gun dealers. The conclusion was based on
data from a 1994 survey of 2,568 households. Of those, only 251 people answered the question about where they got their guns.
- The president isn't the only one who's used the 40 percent figure to make a point. Many others stumping for the cause have pulled from the same info pile, (i.e. - Kirsten Gillibrand, Mayor Doomberg.)
