No, Eric Holder Doesn't Want To Make Gun Owners Wear 'Tracking Bracelets'
ERIC LACH – APRIL 9, 2014, 12:57 PM EDT
If you frequent certain freedom-loving corners of the internet, you might have noticed over the past couple of days a flurry of headlines worried about Attorney General Eric Holder's interest in "gun tracking bracelets."
It all appears to have started with an article published Monday by The Washington Free Beacon headlined: "Holder: We Want to Explore Gun Tracking Bracelets." Fox News reprinted a portion of the article. So did WND. And InfoWars. Townhall.com blogged about it. Even the National Rifle Association, a stickler for proper terminology when describing firearms, picked up the story.
"Attorney General Eric Holder said on Friday that gun tracking bracelets are something the Justice Department (DOJ) wants to 'explore' as part of its gun control efforts," Free Beacon staff writer Elizabeth Harrington wrote in her post.
Harrington's article focused on comments Holder made at a House appropriations subcommittee on Friday. Only Holder never spoke about any "gun tracking bracelets." Instead, he talked about ideas for gun safety technology including finger print identification and a bracelet that "talks to" a gun, to allow use only by the lawful owner. At the end of her article, Harrington wrote that "others" have suggested putting GPS tracking into every gun. But that part of her article didn't make it into the reprints run by Fox News and the NRA. At Townhall.com, writer Katie Pavlich fully ran away with what Harrington's headline and lead suggested.
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