We just caught Biden in a lie, he’s saying this information was given to Obama last Thursday in the daily intelligence briefing, but it’s clear he’s talking about what al-Qaeda leader Adam Gadahn said in 2011 but was dredged up last Wednesday on MSNBC’s Morning Joe. Either way it’s bunk because Gadahn made several claims about U.S. gun laws that are patently false.

WASHINGTON — The terrorist organization al-Qaida is telling its followers to exploit the so-called “gun show loophole” to buy semi-automatic weapons that could be used to kill Americans, Vice President Joe Biden warned in an interview with Hearst Newspapers.

Biden, the quarterback of the Obama administration’s anti-gun-violence campaign, said the classified presidential daily intelligence brief that was delivered to President Obama and him last Thursday described “an al-Qaida principal” declaring on an al-Qaida website that supporters ought to “go to Washington and go to a gun show” because a fair portion of gun show sales bypass background checks.

“You can buy a semi-automatic weapon,” Biden characterized the al-Qaida official as saying. “It’s your obligation to do Jihad, and kill people, kill Americans. In other words, you radicals, what’s so gol’darn hard here? Just go to America and buy a gun.”

Biden made the remarks in an interview with David McCumber, Hearst Washington bureau chief, at the White House on Friday.

Al-Qaida’s bid to have supporters acquire guns at U.S. gun shows is “not classified now” by intelligence agencies, Biden said. “It’s out there but it’s real.”

Andrew Arulanandam, director of public affairs for the National Rifle Association, said the vice president’s comments were “a typical, Joe Biden shoot-from-the-hip, ridiculous statement.”