By Glenn Kessler Glenn Kessler The Fact Checker Email Bio Follow May 13 at 3:00 AM “Most people don’t know that consumer product safety literally — one industry that’s been exempted is the gun lobby. So we have different regulations for toy guns and no regulations for the weapons on our streets that are killing so many people.” “In the US we have more federal regulation over toy guns than real ones” “Nowadays, there is more regulation over toy guns than real ones.
Booker’s staff says that’s the gap the senator is trying to highlight: No federal agency is charged with ensuring a safe design for guns. The Consumer Product Safety Commission Improvements Act of 1976 explicitly said the agency would not have this role: “The Consumer Product Safety Commission shall make no ruling or order that restricts the manufacture or sale of firearms, firearms ammunition, or components of firearms ammunition, including black powder or gunpowder for firearms.
“The ATF has extremely narrow authority regarding firearm design,” he said. “In particular, firearms may only be imported if ATF determines that they are ‘generally recognized as particularly suitable for or readily adaptable to sporting purposes’ .” By contrast, there are no regulations governing the sale, distribution and ownership of toy guns, experts say. The main exception is a 1986 law that requires a blaze orange plug in the muzzle to distinguish toy guns from real guns.
“My sense is, this is something that is not a material factor in the gun debate,” he said. “Certain products are unsafe because of design. Others can be unsafe from misuse.”
Booker's claim is much more comprehensible when the broader context is placed on the tips of the reader's eyelashes.
If the WP was 'truly and unapologetically' reporting in the Public Interest, why wouldn't it simply juxtapose all the senseless 'loss of life' from (pick your mass shooting....), say, Sandy Hook) up to today and the REPORT on the ABSENCE of POST HOC REGULATIONS in 'response.'
Is there anything these Dems running for the nomination say that's accurate? Why would this surprise anyone? Their whole party is nothing but a sham.
Just this: from my vantage point, the premise of this article 'says more' about the GOP's 'deregulation' of our Free Press (read: Reagan unconstitutionally 'killing' the Fairness Act without any Judicial Review to this very day) and the BIAS of the WP.
I could have went my whole life without knowing this fact check and be fine.
As an avid gun owner, I'm sick of people like davidhogg111 dictating the conversation. Like a person who's never driven a car trying to get all Porsche banned because they're too fast
Rhode Scholar Funds pissed against the fence
Seriously? How bout some real news!
God is dikke pedofiel
OMH trying to be real news for once. Sad part is that they are just another FakeNews Leftist rag.
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