Universal background checks picked up another key demographic of support lately -- gun dealers. That was interesting enough to appear in the news last night. It's not as vast a majority as, say, Democrats, or even NRA members, or even tea partiers -- all of whom sport clear majorities in favor of background checks for guns.
What I did not hear yesterday on Rachel Maddow's show, well, it's news but I wouldn't call it breaking. The NRA tried to suppress this research, with a "consider the source" ad hominem so clear they couldn't have been more transparent about it. News but it ain't breaking; we can add this to the variety of ways the NRA has worked to prevent research into guns, gun laws, and gun violence, to stop the American people from knowing the facts that might swing public opinion against them.
Like learning that even gun dealers -- the ones who would have to perform more background checks -- support doing so.
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