Spokesman-Review editorialist Shawn Vestal published an opinion piece today, entitled, “Study: Criminals easily skirt law buying guns online.” Like most firearms-related pieces in the progressive media, it was editorially dishonest. Vestal’s “study” came from Michael Bloomberg’s Everytown, which has been nailed time and again for fabrication and exaggeration by even left-aligned sources such as CNN and Politifact.

Vestal fabricates a “black market”—a simple term he either simply doesn’t understand how to use, or is intentionally using dishonestly—within the relatively transparent world of online gun sales, asserting that if Washington’s Initiative 594 passes, crimes with firearms will somehow diminish the ability of determined …read more