Similar thread here but worth repeating.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1140541/posts
I guess now that the border problem is all fixed and since we are no longer at risk of attack from terrorists the feds have more time to do this kind of thing.
Oh God!!!!!!!!!!!!.....the horror!
I realize the Gestapo did confiscate weapons that were illegal under the Third Reich, but those people caught were sent to concentration/labor camps or killed on the spot. Please don't compare US law enforcement agencies to the murderous Gestapo who rounded up innocents for mass murder as a matter of policy. (Yes Waco was a mass murder of civilians, but done due to poor leadership rather than standing policy). Remember how angry we get as conservatives when some left wing radical calls us Nazis due to our beliefs.
What you seem to have missed in the body of the story is the guy from East Palo Alto...now that is gang city...his name is rather Muslim sounding and he had body armor (as aviolent felon no less) as well as some nasty guns. This ain't the Gestapo....more likely it is a crack down on folks who may be working with some rather unsavory groups from the mIddle East
Gestapo is a bit over the top, don't you think?
It seems you have failed to remember Waco and Ruby Ridge where Clinton trying to appease his tree hugging friends clearly went over the line! People have the right to bear arms but not have banned or unregistered weapons. As for passing judgement because of a name! We earned that right 9/11/01. These people were clearly not upstanding people or we would not even be discussing this. Janet Reno violated more civil rights than anyone in recent history yet you fail to mention this.
Must be a RENO thing...
They're still using that tired, old line?
If it's their job to keep "guns out of the hands of criminals," they're the most inept government agency in human history.
Bull****!!! This case will make it into the DEMS remarks next time guns are brought up in the Senate/House.
How did a small agency charged with collecting the tax on tobacco and booze grow into this? Do they still pay any attention to their “alcohol and tobacco” mission?
Bang
Ain't that the truth!!!
Molon Labe!
Meanwhile, in the same year, 50,000 guns exhange hands in Los Angeles County alone, over a bag of weed, some crack, and a couple of fourties.
Somebody tell me how I can get paid so much to accomplish so little. Screw the lottery, this is where the EZ-bucks are.
I find it interesting that so many state legislators and members of Congress feel that local law enforcement agencies shouldn't assist federal immigration agents in locating and arresting illegal aliens because they say immigration is solely a federal matter. And yet these same lawmakers seem to have no problem with local law enforcement agencies assisting the ATF, a federal agency, in a case involving federal firearms violations.
Ah yes... Ted Kennedy comparing US Soldiers to Saddam's Torturers... appalling. Buchananites comparing the ATF to the Gestapo... damn straight. What I hate most about liberals is their hypocracy. Sad to see it alive and well here on FR.
As to what, how many, which calibers, of any if none that I own... I see nothing, know nothing, have no idea what your talking about!
"One of those arrested, Laquan J. Abdulrahim of East Palo Alto, Calif., was also charged with possession of body armor by a violent felon.."
Abdulrahim???
Hmmmm???
Violent felon????
Hmmm.
Maybe there is more to this than meets the eye.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (Bureau of ATFE) will become the Bureau of Firearms, Alcohol, Tobacco, and Explosives (Bureau of FATE).