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Biden wants to blame the uptick in gun sales for the rise in violence. (Photo: Joe Biden Facebook)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The historic rise in gun sales this year has given President Joe Biden and the gun control lobby a perfect scapegoat for the equally historic rise in homicides. Rather than consider how the \u201cdefund the police\u201d movement has hamstrung law enforcement and allowed criminals to run free, Biden and his cronies are blaming lawful gun owners for flooding America\u2019s streets with \u201cweapons of war.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s easy to see how Americans might fall for this lie. If more guns lead to more crime, then the tens of millions of guns sold this year must<\/em> have something to do with the thousands of murders in major U.S. cities, right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s a fatal flaw in Biden\u2019s logic, and anyone who knows anything about where criminals get firearms should be able to see it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Scapegoat<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

If you read emails and press releases from gun control groups like Everytown (and I don\u2019t recommend it), you\u2019ve been bombarded with messages that connect the rise in \u201cgun crime\u201d to the quickening pace of gun buying. This Everytown page<\/a>, for example, links the \u201crecord increases in gun sales\u201d to the uptick in violent crime and argues that gun buying puts \u201cmany people at increased risk for gun violence.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another Everytown press released published by CBS News<\/a>, the group connects 2020\u2019s record gun sales to the current homicide spike and uses that connection to call for universal background checks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because \u201cmore guns are being purchased and trafficked than ever,\u201d Everytown wants to outlaw private sales, “so that gun traffickers and criminals don’t go shopping across state lines,” according to the report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The White House alluded to the same line of thinking in its latest gun control push. Their fact sheet<\/a> connects the recent \u201csurge in gun violence\u201d to the \u201cflow of firearms used to commit crimes,\u201d and mentions the \u201csecondary consequences of the pandemic and the proliferation of illegal guns over the same period.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SEE ALSO: Senate Committee Splits On Party Line Vote Over David Chipman, Biden\u2019s ATF Nominee<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

A slightly more sophisticated version of the same argument theorizes that increased gun sales are putting a strain on the current background check system, which leads to more violent crime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Without citing any evidence, Everytown argues<\/a> that this \u201cstrain\u201d has allowed guns to \u201cfall into the wrong hands.\u201d American Progress makes the same argument here<\/a>, asserting (again, without evidence) that the \u201cstrain\u201d of the rise in gun sales has allowed prohibited people to acquire firearms at federally licensed dealers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The bottom line is clear enough. The reason we\u2019re seeing a 30% rise in homicides has nothing to do with bad policy and everything to do with Americans purchasing more guns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Flaw<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

There are several pretty obvious flaws to this logic. The first is that firearms take an average of eight years to reach criminal hands, according to the ATF<\/a>. This is called \u201ctime-to-crime,\u201d and it means that, on average, the guns purchased in 2020 won\u2019t show up at crime scenes until 2028.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some guns are found at crime scenes much earlier. Others are used in crimes but never recovered. But to argue that 2020\u2019s gun surge has anything to do with the ongoing homicide crisis? It\u2019s laughable. The guns purchased in the last 12 months aren\u2019t being used by gang bangers in Baltimore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The more sophisticated argument\u2014that record gun buying is \u201cstraining\u201d the background check system\u2014is also without merit. It\u2019s true that the Department of Justice has asked<\/a> for more resources to complete delayed checks. It\u2019s also true that if a background check gets \u201cdelayed,\u201d a gun dealer is allowed to transfer that firearm to the purchaser if they do not receive a determination within three business days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But do criminals acquire guns by submitting to a background check, waiting three business days, and collecting their “Saturday Night Special<\/a>” from unsuspecting firearms dealers?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SEE ALSO: Biden\u2019s New \u2018Gun Crime Prevention Strategy\u2019 Puts the Screws to FFLs with \u2018Zero Tolerance\u2019 Enforcement<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Only about 10 percent of criminals purchase their firearm from a licensed dealer, according to a survey of inmates<\/a> published in Preventative Medicine. \u201cRarely is the proximate source either direct purchase from a gun store, or theft,\u201d researchers found, adding that most acquired their gun from a friend or acquaintance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even the ATF admits that the three-day waiting game isn\u2019t a big source of crime guns. Agents who spoke with Fox News<\/a> last year stressed that many criminals or criminal gun dealers acquire firearms through straw purchases. They ask a friend or relative without a criminal record to purchase a gun (which is illegal, by the way), and then they either use that gun to commit a crime or sell it on the street.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These criminals will get their guns regardless of whether the instant criminal background check system is \u201cstrained.\u201d For those without a criminal record, the check will process instantly, and a gun store clerk won\u2019t be any the wiser.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also worth noting: while the FBI processed a record number of background checks last year, they also denied a record number of sales<\/a>, indicating that the system is working just fine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last Word<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In the excellent book, \u201cWhy Meadow Died<\/a>,\u201d a parent of a child killed in the Parkland massacre argues that incompetent politicians who blame the NRA for violence are no better than the South American dictators who blame America for poverty. Both are using a shadowy, faraway enemy to distract from their own terrible, ineffective governance, and we\u2019re watching the same play out here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The millions of Americans who purchased guns this year shouldn\u2019t be blamed for rising rates of violence. There\u2019s no evidence to support it, and President Biden and our city\u2019s mayors shouldn\u2019t be allowed to get away with such a lazy slander against America\u2019s gun owners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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