AP fact-checks Hillary Clinton's debate comments on guns, and guess what?

The Associated Press - not known either for its conservative or pro-gun rights leanings - was recently forced to admit that Hillary Clinton wildly inflated statistics on so-called "gun violence" to support her extremist gun control stance.

From the article:

CLINTON: "Since we last debated in Las Vegas, nearly 3,000 people have been killed by guns. Two hundred children have been killed. This is an emergency." She said that in the same period there have been 21 mass shootings, "including one last weekend in Des Moines where three were murdered."

THE FACTS: The claim appears to be unsupported on all counts.

The Gun Violence Archive has recorded 11,485 gun deaths in the U.S. so far this year, an average of just under 1,000 per month, making Clinton's figure appear to be highly exaggerated. The archive had more detailed data for children and teenagers, showing 70 from those age groups killed by firearms since the Democratic candidates debated Oct. 13 - not 200 as she claimed.

Asked to explain the discrepancy, Clinton's campaign pointed to 2013 statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and 2010 figures from the Children's Defense Fund. But that's not the time period she said she was talking about.

The only mass shooting recently in Des Moines was Nov. 8, when four people were shot at a night club. One was killed, not three.

"The claim appears to be unsupported on all counts."

That's journalist speak for a flat-out lie. A lie - just as were Hillary's claims that “Forty percent of guns are sold at gun shows, online sales,” and that 90 percent of the weapons used to commit crimes in Mexico come from the United States.

Here's something we KNOW is a fact:

Hillary Clinton will say ANYthing to convince Americans to give up their Second Amendment rights.

Chad D. Baus is the Buckeye Firearms Association Secretary, BFA PAC Vice Chairman, and an NRA-certified firearms instructor. He is the editor of BuckeyeFirearms.org, which received the Outdoor Writers of Ohio 2013 Supporting Member Award for Best Website.