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On Tuesday, Cam smacked CNN down pretty hard over their report that Illinois sold more guns than everyone else. In fact, the reporting was actually kind of bad if you know anything about the numbers.
CNN eventually got the hint and changed their story. That’s the good news.
The bad news is that the change isn’t universal. You see, a lot of other sites accept CNN as a news feed and repost stories on their site. The feed doesn’t have the new story, which means many local stations like WHTI-TV in Terra Haute, Indiana are still putting out false information.
Gun background checks soared in April
Editor’s note: This story and headline have been corrected. An earlier version overstated the number of gun sales that have been recorded in Illinois.
Concerns about looming gun control legislation and rising crime continued to fuel gun sales in America throughout the month of April, according to industry observers.
The FBI conducted more than 3.5 million gun-related background checks last month, a 20% year-over-year increase from April 2020, according to the latest FBI figures released Monday.
Nearly 1.7 million of those gun background checks were specifically for gun purchases, according to the National Shooting Sports Foundation, a firearms industry trade group that cross references FBI data with actual sales figures provided by gun merchants to determine how many guns are sold monthly.