Former Marjory Stoneman Douglas student David Hogg seems to have continued trouble separating facts from fiction.

The anti-gun activist was fact-checked again after making an off-the-wall claim that the National Rifle Association is pushing for federal funding to arm teachers in schools “to increase gun sales in a record low year.”

So we can’t

-afford textbooks for our children
-regularly fund inner-city schools
-pay our teachers a livable salary
-have free public college

Yet, we can arm teachers sounds like the @NRA is pulling strings to increase gun sales in a record low year. https://t.co/Ca8NbMCpyk

— David Hogg (@davidhogg111) August 24, 2018

Hogg was responding to a New York Times report that Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is considering if a program in federal education law would allow states to use federal funding for firearms and firearm training of teachers. And while the education program, the Student Support and Academic Enrichment grants, does not prohibit weapons purchases, moving ahead with such a plan could prove controversial for the Trump administration.

Of course, the Times report made no mention of an NRA connection as Hogg suggested in his tweet.

He knows the NRA doesn’t sell guns, right? pic.twitter.com/HXiSzfMH2x

— DJ~?? (@DJ2779) August 25, 2018

Actual facts have eluded Hogg before, but that has never stopped him from spouting off his leftist narrative – even if he ends up getting called out.

Gun sales are nearing a record high. Go back to school and learn some math. https://t.co/EhKOGU2bv0

— Mike Beasley (@MikeBeas) August 24, 2018

Washington Free Beacon’s Stephen Gutowski, a firearms instructor and gun policy reporter,  introduced Hogg to some hard facts.

There have been about 1 million more FBI background checks, the most reliable indicator of gun sales, this year than last year and this year is on pace to be the second-best in the history of NICS. So, no, gun sales are not experiencing a record low year. https://t.co/3TuvrVnvOu

— Stephen Gutowski (@StephenGutowski) August 24, 2018

Here’s the FBI report that shows the number of checks every month since NICS began. For a number of reasons, NICS check numbers are not a one-to-one representation of gun sales but nearly every sale of a new gun and many used sales require a NICS check. https://t.co/ajfqxG16C1

— Stephen Gutowski (@StephenGutowski) August 24, 2018

Gutowski was sure to clarify his own words citing the importance of being as “precise and transparent as possible.”

I redid this tweet to add “nearly” to “every sale of a new gun” because some states don’t require NICS checks on new gun sales to those with gun-carry permits. It’s important to be as precise and transparent as possible whenever fact checking somebody else, obviously.

— Stephen Gutowski (@StephenGutowski) August 24, 2018

Hogg seemed to prove once again that America’s school system must be failing its students as Twitter users weighed in.

Poster child for homeschooling. https://t.co/1IVuhGNIbr

— Larry O’Connor (@LarryOConnor) August 24, 2018

This kid can’t get even the most basic facts straight.

Looks like he really is getting ready for a career in politics!

— WeaponOutfitters.com (@WeaponOutfitter) August 24, 2018

And this, young @davidhogg111, has much more to do with lack of school funding than guns. pic.twitter.com/0MgFJdojtK

— Judge Smails (@JSmails) August 24, 2018

A lie repeated often enough…

Pretty scary how little facts and truth matters in the age of mass media.

— WeaponOutfitters.com (@WeaponOutfitter) August 24, 2018

That guy just makes shit up. Fairly representative of gun sense people in general. Fake facts for gullible low information voters

— Gaidheal Alascanach (@Gaidheal_Alaska) August 24, 2018

And could someone PLEASE tell me where the NRA store is located that sells guns? I’d like my next purchase to be from there.

— Mike Evans (@mjevans611) August 24, 2018

Guns are purchased by private individuals. Text book are purchased with tax dollars. Hogg is an idiot.

— Frank J. Tamel (@Frankohh) August 24, 2018

Sounds like you did not do any research in this subject all you did was post your opinion, basically a lie just so you can drum up support from your worshippers. Try tweeting actual facts, you know the truth, oh if you did that no one would listen to you anymore.

— Darren Strazek (@DarrenStrazek) August 24, 2018

Well, @davidhogg111 has learned the number one rule of being a dancing puppet of progressivism…Never let the facts get in the way of the agenda.

— Christy Waters (@ThatChristyChic) August 25, 2018

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