NCIS performs criminal backgroiund checks on firearms purchasers?

Private Gun Ownership on the Rise in US (Infographic) | Worldwide Gun Ownership & Firearms: Private Gun Ownership on the Rise (Infographic) by Ross Toro, Infographics Artist January 04, 2012 03:01pm ET

I ran across a firearms-related link *  to LIVESCIENCE today, and I was appalled by the political bias demonstrated in their articles.

There I found this infographic:

No, it wasn't a typo.  This 'scientific' website was so certain of itself that it took the acronym NICS, scrambled it to NCIS, and then looked up that acronym.

Note the source of the information.  I'm pretty sure that the FBI knows that background checks are really conducted by the National Instant Criminal Background System, not the Naval Criminal Investigation Service.

Or by a television series.



Incidentally, the "scientific" website also had an article about the gun control debate, suggesting that instead of "studying" gun violence, we just "argue" about it.  The point they found most objectionable was the NRA's objection to the CDC's research into "gun violence" ... that research was as biased as these LiveScience articles.

But of course, LiveScience didn't mention that.

* H/T: Say Uncle