Here is an email as received. It deals with a legitimate issue, but unfortunately is filled with significant lies. It was from Brady Political Action Committee and sent at 8:54 p.m., Sunday, June 28:

“Last night, tragedy struck at a peaceful protest in Louisville, Kentucky, over the police murdur (sic) of Breonna Taylor. Someone opened fire on the crowd as innocent protesters ran for cover. At least one person was shot and killed. Please sign our petition to pass real gun safety laws >> We don’t have to live like this. America is the only developed country where anyone can buy any weapon they want, legally, with no background check. Click here to pass gun safety laws and stop the bloodshed. We have to do something. Thank you. – Brady PAC”

Lie No. 1: They refer to the shooting death of Ms. Taylor as a “police murder.” The word murder, not “murdur” as they misspell it, denotes an intentional, illegal taking of life. It is actually reported that Ms Taylor was accidentally shot in a warranted raid of a drug house. The law officers mistakenly went to the wrong house. Lie No. 2: They say “anyone” can buy any weapon they want. Truth: The Gun Control Act (GCA), makes it unlawful for certain categories of persons to ship, transport, receive or possess firearms or ammunition, to include any person:
convicted in any court of a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year; who is a fugitive from justice; who is an unlawful user of or addicted to any controlled substance (as defined in the Controlled Substances Act); who has been adjudicated as a mental defective or has been committed to any mental institution; who is an illegal alien; who has been discharged from the Armed Forces under dishonorable conditions; who has renounced his or her U.S. citizenship; who is subject to a court order restraining the person from harassing, stalking or threatening an intimate partner or child of the intimate partner; or who has been convicted of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence. The law also makes it is “unlawful for any person under indictment for a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year to ship, transport, or receive firearms or ammunition.”  [full article]