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Democracy Dies in Darkness     The truth behind the rhetoric     No, 40% of firearms (still) aren’t purchased without a background check Tall tales and heated emotions run deep in on both sides of the gun debate. In the wake of the Valentine’s Day shooting at a Florida high school, claims that we thought had been buried long ago suddenly came back to life. For example, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) told viewers of “Meet the Press” last Sunday, “ We have to end the absurdity of the gun show loophole. Forty percent of the guns in this country are sold without any background checks. ” The Fact Checker debunked this statistic  twice in   2013  and again in  2015 . But it just won’t go away. So, we took another look. This number comes from a two-decade old study that looked at all gun transactions, inclduing gifts and inheritances — not just gun sales like Sanders says. A recent national survey examined gun sales between 2015 and 2017. It found that 13

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Intrepid Report Newsletter We cannot keep publishing without your help. We have no paywalls or ads. Nor do we receive corporate or foundation funding. All we have is you to keep us publishing.  We  rely on you to help us  pay our monthly expenses. So please Donate   Monday Hizbullah: ‘You don’t see them . . . they see you!’ By Brett Redmayne-Titley “This is not good!” cautions a new Lebanese friend in a stern tone of warning, clutching this reporters arm for emphasis. “This, where you are going. . it is their neighbourhood . . . Hizbullah’s neighbourhood. They control this completely!” A common culture makes the nation By Linh Dinh In Saigon, the foreign tourists stay mostly downtown, where they can patronize American bars, and restaurants serving Indian, Thai, Korean, Italian, Mexican and Middle Eastern food, not to mention McDonald’s, Burger King, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Popeyes, Starbucks and Lotteria, the last a Japanese chain. With English as the li