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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 1119774" data-attributes="member: 12952">Almost everything Obama says about guns is bogus. He continues to&nbsp; insist that 40 percent of gun sales involve no background check, despite&nbsp; the fact that the Washington Post has given this claim “three&nbsp; Pinocchios.”He has said more than once that the Newtown, Conn.,&nbsp; massacre victims were “gunned down by a semiautomatic weapon — by a&nbsp; fully automatic weapon in that case, sadly.”No, the Newtown shooter didn’t have a machine gun (aka “automatic weapon”). In fact, as gun expert David Kopel told Congress:“The&nbsp; murderer at Sandy Hook fired 150 shots over a 20-minute period, before&nbsp; the police arrived. In other words, a rate of fewer than eight shots per&nbsp; minute. This is a rate of fire far slower than the capabilities of a&nbsp; lever-action Henry Rifle from 1862.”<a href="http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/opinion/op_ed/2013/04/graham_prez_massacres_gun_truths" target="_blank">Graham: Prez massacres gun truths | Boston Herald</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 1119774, member: 12952"] Almost everything Obama says about guns is bogus. He continues to insist that 40 percent of gun sales involve no background check, despite the fact that the Washington Post has given this claim “three Pinocchios.” He has said more than once that the Newtown, Conn., massacre victims were “gunned down by a semiautomatic weapon — by a fully automatic weapon in that case, sadly.” No, the Newtown shooter didn’t have a machine gun (aka “automatic weapon”). In fact, as gun expert David Kopel told Congress: “The murderer at Sandy Hook fired 150 shots over a 20-minute period, before the police arrived. In other words, a rate of fewer than eight shots per minute. This is a rate of fire far slower than the capabilities of a lever-action Henry Rifle from 1862.” [url=http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/opinion/op_ed/2013/04/graham_prez_massacres_gun_truths]Graham: Prez massacres gun truths | Boston Herald[/url] [/QUOTE]

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