claim: "forty percent of the guns in this country are sold without any background checks."
author: bernie sanders
evidence_1: feb 20, 2018 ... "forty percent of the guns in this country are sold without any background checks. " three years after we first debunked this statistic, it's still not ...
evidence_2: feb 20, 2018 ... “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.”
evidence_3: mar 16, 2018 ... "a quarter of our guns are sold outside of the background checks. ... that "40  percent of the guns in this country are sold without any background ...
evidence_4: mar 21, 2013 ... the line: 40 percent of guns are purchased without a background check. ... it's  estimated that 40% of guns are sold by private sellers without checks. this is  unacceptable, and is a major drive of gun violence in this country.
evidence_5: mar 16, 2017 ... the answer: 22 percent obtained their gun without a background check. that's  barely half of the 40 percent figure that has gained wide ...