This column is a pack of lies.
For one thing, WCAX conceded that Vermont is in no sense “one of the highest rates of gun trafficking in the Northeast.” In fact, that station said exactly the opposite, based on a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms report.
And the rhetoric, like everything GunSenseVT says, is designed to dupe people into believing there are no background checks - which is a lie.
Just as the figure often cited by the advocates of civilian disarmament such as GunSenseVT that “40 percent of guns are sold without a background check” is a lie: that figure is from 1997, a year before the federal instant background check system was initiated.