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Posted on 07/19/2011 2:43:01 PM PDT by barmag25
The following editorial appeared in the Los Angeles Times on Sunday, July 17, 2011:
The Obama administration took a concrete step toward curbing the flow of semiautomatic weapons to Mexico last week when it adopted a new regulation mandating the reporting of multiple sales of long guns to federal authorities.
Under the regulation, some 8,500 licensed gun shops in Arizona, California, New Mexico and Texas will be required to inform the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives when a customer buys more than one semiautomatic that is .22 caliber or greater within a five-day period.
The regulation is a small but significant tool that could help federal authorities keep weapons sold in the United States out of the hands of Mexican gangs and drug cartels. Rather than tracing an AK-47 after it has been recovered from a crime scene, ATF agents may be able to intervene before the weapon is smuggled across the border.
Read more: http://www.sacbee.com/2011/07/19/3778964/gun-control-at-the-border.html#ixzz1SaZfJQik
(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...
Yeah, let’s play spot the lies and misdirection on this one.
For real gun control lock up Holder & those involved in Fast & Furious
McClatchey is an Obama water-carrying Marxist propaganda company.
“Concrete steps” to end guns to Mexico?
I guess McLies are hoping (praying) that the MSM, including themselves, hid the Fast & Furious story.
Only dumbass Liberals could even swallow 1% of this tripe.
Members of the Regime have violated the Arms Export Control Act by trafficking weapons into Mexico and Honduras. But of course, the Sac Bee is thrilled that this new intrusion into our 2nd amendment rights will now change all of that. That is, CHANGE THE SUBJECT, RIGHT BEE??!!!
Under the regulation, some 8,500 licensed gun shops in Arizona, California, New Mexico and Texas will be required to inform the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives when a customer buys more than one semiautomatic that is .22 caliber or greater within a five-day period. The regulation is a small but significant tool that could help federal authorities keep weapons sold in the United States out of the hands of Mexican gangs and drug cartels. Rather than tracing an AK-47 after it has been recovered from a crime scene, ATF agents may be able to intervene before the weapon is smuggled across the border.Obama and Holder need to be removed from office and put on trial for murder.
Mark
Of course, ATF approved straw man buyers are exempt.
I call it the Sacramento PEE because it’s yellow journalism!
“ATF agents may be able to intervene before the weapon is smuggled across the border”
they can arrest someone before a crime is committed?
didn’t they make a movie once about such a situation?
Never mind that the order is illegal and unconstitutional.
I don’t believe for a minute that a meaningful number of guns for mexican gangs come from U.S. gun shops. I doubt they’re buying semi-auto AR clones. They’re buying fully auto AR’s on the international arms markets.
Also: How can this regulation be legal? Aside from the 2nd amendment of course... what about the fourteenth, and equal protection? I don’t think the feds can call out certain states by name and regulate them differently. There might even be an argument that this is a Bill of Attainder.
Its easy to get more/larger calibers. Just claim to be an illegal and get DHS and the FBI to front the money ! All you really gotta do is say their for your cousing in Mexico...... >PS
***Rather than tracing an AK-47 after it has been recovered from a crime scene, ATF agents may be able to intervene before the weapon is smuggled across the border.***
They FORGOT to put tracers on most of the guns they sold for smuggling to Mexico. Therefor, they did not manage to locate any of the cartels. And the Won is trying to make it sound as though he “may” be able to stop the smuggling into Mexico. And now, our Resident is trying to make himself look blameless.
It would seem to me that as in 1959 in Cuba, any Mexican Army base is an armory just waiting to either be stormed, as Castro’s thugs did or in Mexico’s case, someone is bribed to hand the guns over.
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