Travis Price

As TTAG has pointed out previously, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s Mayors Against Illegal Guns is acting like a dunk looking for his car keys under a streetlamp—because the light’s better. Their call to “Close the Gun Show Loophole” is the worst kind of political pandering. The kind that addresses a non-issue to pretend that its proponents are “doing something”—instead of doing something effective. The fact that the Mayors’ stat- and study-laden website doesn’t include a single reference to the percentage of weapons purchased by criminals at gun shows (less than five percent) shows the cynicism with which they address an otherwise admirable goal.

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