A Nov. 5 WorldNetDaily article by Leo Hohmann carries the headline “Billionaire gun grabbers get their way.”
But if you read the article, there’s no “gun grabbing” actually happening. It’s about the passage of a Washington state law mandating stricter background checks for firearms purchases.
That’s not “gun grabbing” — it’s keeping people who shouldn’t have guns from getting them.
Nevertheless, Hohmann whines that “Five billionaires – Michael Bloomberg, Bill Gates, Paul Allen, Steve Ballmer and Nick Hanauer – poured a total of more than $5 million into the promotion of expanded background checks in Washington state.” Hohmann also baselessly asserts that these billionaires “paid for ads featuring emotional pleas by survivors of mass shootings that would not have been stopped by a background check.”
In the grand WND tradition of biased reporting, Hohmann can’t be bothered to interview any supporters of the law but freely quoted its opponents.