Despite Beto O'Rourke's best efforts, it is still legal in the United States to buy and sell firearms. This constitutional fact, however, greatly unnerved MSNBC Live host Stephanie Ruhle on Tuesday as she devoted an entire segment to gun auctions and raffles hosted by the NRA Foundation's charitable arm, Friends of the NRA, at schools. The very existence of these of these auctions where deemed "shocking" and "incredible" in various teases throughout the hour, but the truth is far less nefarious.

Washington Post reporter Beth Reinhard co-authored the source material and joined Ruhle to discuss. Ruhle began by quoting Reinhard's article, almost immediately proving her own fear mongering wrong, '"only a small fraction of Friends of the NRA events take place at schools and such activities are conducted with the input, support and coordination of local officials.'" Ruhle then asked Reinhard how she came to discover the events in question.

Reinhard said that she had received an e-mail from a Kentucky woman "who had come across a flier" and "was particularly upset because there had been a mass shooting just 80 miles away last year at another school in Western Kentucky." In other words, there was no evidence of anything nefarious going on, but the location somehow made it seem that way, which the Post then determined warranted an investigation.

After discussing how the family-friendly raffles work, Ruhle asked, "Okay, the sales that take place at these gun shows, these raffles at schools, are they subject to background checks?" Reinhard did not have an answer to that, "That’s a very good question. I got a number of e-mails like that from readers yesterday. That's something I need to check on actually." According to multiple local news organizations who have previously written about the subject of Friends of the NRA raffles, background checks are performed.

Ruhle, still perplexed why an auction or raffle would be held at a school, concluded by asking, "And the argument, for those who support the idea of having these events in schools, why do they think it's a good idea?" Reinhard finished the segment by stating the obvious, "I mean, I don't think they see it as, you know, anything nefarious, because their association with guns is a positive one. A lot of people grow up with guns, they grow up hunting, and doing shooting sports, and they raise their kids to do that. They give guns as gifts. They see it as a community type event, a fundraiser for a good cause."

There were no accounts of this going on during school hours or that strangers were walking the halls with loaded firearms while children were present, as Reinhard's article itself mentions, but if you were to go by Ruhle's reaction, you would think just the opposite.

Here is a transcript of the November 5 show: