The Myth of 90 Percent: Only a Small Fraction of Guns in Mexico Come From U.S

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/elections/2009/04/02/myth-percent-guns-mexico-fraction-number-claimed/ ^ | April 2, 2009

[HD1200]

While 90 percent of the guns traced to the U.S. actually originated in the United States, the percent traced to the U.S. is only about 17 percent of the total number of guns reaching Mexico

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I just saw the video on FOX news.

Did anyone see those evil auto rifles that were confiscated?

I saw an evil .22 rimfire Remmington Nylon 66 and an evil Winchester 74 .22 rimfire, both with tube magazines in the buttstock, just the type of firepower the average peon might have to protect his sheep and goats form preditors.

[HammerT]

But a large percentage of the guns recovered in Mexico do not get sent back to the U.S. for tracing, because it is obvious from their markings that they do not come from the U.S.

That's a Big NSS

Do the Demo-fascisti have anything else besides the BIG LIE to further their agenda?

[mountainbunny]

Great article pointing out how wrong Obama, Clinton, etc are.

With all due respect, they aren't "wrong". They are twisting statistics for political gain. Know and state the difference.

One can be honestly wrong or mistaken.

On the other hand, once the truth is made known, twisting statistics is dishonest.

[AvOrdVet]

One thing I've been doing since this "gun running" story started, is sending updated revelations that undercut the story to family and friends, urging them to pass it along and also to contact their reps...

Everyone here needs to do this... The charade is already starting to backfire, we just have to intensify the scrutiny and pressure!

Join the GOA, NRA and your State/Local Gun Rights Group if you haven't already. Get in the fight before the fight comes to you!

[TigersEye]

Another good article about the lie.

The Cockroach and the Lightswitch: A Spotlight on the Gunshow-Loophole-Mexican-Narco-Nexus Lie

[Quiller]

The 90% figure is clearly a spin on the number that were successfully traced, using semantics to get a propaganda boost to lay the groundwork for future gun-control efforts.
But the 17% is a semantic manipulation, too.

In the article, 29,000 were seized in Mexico, 11,000 submitted to U.S. ATF for tracing, 6,000 successfully traced, 5,000 traced to U.S. sources.

So let’s infer that of the 29,000 seized, 18,000 were traced to non-U.S. sources by Mexican authorities, therefore no need to submit those to the ATF.

Just because only 6,000 out of 11,000 were successfully traced, doesn’t meant the untraceable 5,000 were NOT from the U.S., just that there was no way to tell.

So, if the numbers were to hold true (83.3% of traceable firearms linked to U.S. sources), then out of 11,000 firearms, about 9200 would be from the U.S.

That comes out to around 32% of the 29,000 firearms seized by the Mexican authorities oritinated from the U.S.

Way less than the 90% gun-control prone liberals want to claim, but nearly double what the 2nd Amendment supporters want to claim.

But my question is, why does Clinton say a U.S. demand for drugs make it the U.S.’s fault Mexico has problems with gangs dealing in illegal substances, but a Mexican demand for guns is the U.S.’s fault as well, and grounds for diminishing a Constitutional right?

In the near future, I believe we will increasingly see, “international cooperation” given as grounds for further erosion of our Constitutional rights and surrender of U.S. sovereignty.