Mike Bloomberg doesn’t seem to know much about guns or gun control laws

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For a guy who has spent millions of dollars trying to influence the laws governing firearms in the United States, former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg has a surprisingly poor grasp of existing gun control laws.

The 2020 Democratic primary candidate spoke recently about his gun control platform, which calls for the usual stuff embraced by left-wing presidential wannabes. Though the speech was mostly ho-hum, it did reveal that Bloomberg is generally ignorant about existing firearm regulations, which raises the obvious question: How do you plan to fix the laws when you do not even understand the ones currently in place?

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