CBS News Thinks It’s Easier To Buy An ‘Assault Weapon’ Than Cold Medicine In Florida

Holy smokes. Why do we continue to allow MSM to get away with this? This is blatantly FALSE. It’s 100% FAKE NEWS.

CBS News wants you to believe that it’s easier to buy an “assault weapon” (such a stupid term) than cold medicine in Florida. I am not making this up.

In Florida, it's easier to buy an assault rifle than it is to obtain cold medicine https://t.co/VeimDiHEdq pic.twitter.com/s6ibiSLM49

— CBS News (@CBSNews) February 19, 2018

Told you.

Don’t expect to be able to stockpile Sudafed for your winter sniffles. Florida State law prohibits consumers from purchasing more than nine grams of common cold medication like Sudafed within a 30-day period. It’s also illegal to purchase more than three packages at once. This is because the medication contains an ingredient called pseudoephedrine, used to create the illegal drug methamphetamine. In 2016, 327 people died from methamphetamine use in Florida. That same year, 2,559 gun deaths were recorded in the state. You can buy as many guns as you like at one time in Florida — most gun purchases are not registered.

In order to purchase common cold medication, like Sudafed, customers are required to show a form of photo identification that proves they are at least 18 years old. Each purchase is recorded within a store’s database to monitor the amount sold over the counter.

I don’t know about you, but I always have to go through a background check when I purchase cold medicine. And if I don’t have a cold medicine permit, I have to wait DAYS before bringing it home.

Oh wait. That’s not right.

In America, it’s easier to be fed lies by the media than it is to obtain the truth.

— Melissa (@AuspiciousTruth) February 19, 2018

Are you really saying a background check is required for cold medicine? A federal form is required? That federal law denies rights to felons, domestic abusers, those deemed mentally unfit by a judge, and other categories of prohibited possessor?

BS. Great clickbait though.

— Dan Taylor (@simplydan) February 19, 2018

You are literally lying.

— EducatédHillbilly™ (@RobProvince) February 19, 2018

You have to get a background check for cold medicine?

— Marc Rybyn (@RybynM) February 19, 2018

That’s a ridiculous headline.

— I {Heart} Teaching (@krislhughes) February 19, 2018

This is maybe the fakest of the fake news tweets I’ve ever seen?

— Alex Anselm (@AlexAanselm06) February 19, 2018

Did you also have to pass a federal background check and adhere to a waiting period?

— Kevin Kennedy (@NeutocreteNinja) February 19, 2018

What a lie. Just bought cold medicine. Took me about a minute. Last gun I bought? Took 3 days for the background check.

— Trish Laird (@TrishLaird) February 19, 2018

This is not helpful CBS. And how much does an AR15 cost? A box of Sudafed? Anybody curious how a 19 year old working at the Dollar store could afford multiple weapons?

— Ron Pyle (@rreactor) February 19, 2018

Asinine statement by CBS.

— Bill Barker (@arlbill) February 19, 2018

This headline is the exact reason no one believe the media any more. They are no longer a watch dog. They have an agenda.

— Nick Paredes (@npthree) February 19, 2018

False! Fake news!! I live in Florida and this is not true

— michelle maggio (@MaggioMichelle) February 19, 2018

Um this is 100% false and fake news.

— Ray (@RSP212) February 19, 2018

STOP LYING

— Alex Strylowski (@ComeNTakeThem) February 19, 2018

So much fake news.