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total disclosure and termination and prosecution of the parties involved. I know that Mexico wants those responsible extradited to be tried under their law, and all things considered, that may be the only way to ease the tensions building. Had it been a non-government group that had done the same thing, including coercing the gun shop owner to make what he knew were straw purchases, the news as well as every anti-rights and pro-criminal safety group would be screaming for heads on pikes on the White House lawn.
There'd be demands for stricter gun laws, and in fact, before it broke the the BATFuckers were behind it, some groups were already trying to do exactly that. Let no crisis go to waste. The only problem was that 99% of gun owners are law abiding citizens who are getting tired of constantly being a scapegoat over bullshit blaming the inanimate object rather than the sentient being who conciously chose to rob/rape/murder someone. And the anti-rights group blared spin like it was going out of style. Claiming that 70% of all guns traced in Mexico originated in the US, even though the actual number was 70% of the guns TRACED, not guns total. I think the actual number was around 12% that could be traced to the US, and I'm sure a good portion of those were weapons sold/given to the Mexican army by our very own government. Which is the result of rampant corruption in the Mexican military and government.
I have little doubt that a portion of F&F was intended to stir support for further restrictions on law abiding gun owners, particularly in the border states, which, with the exception of California, have gun laws more in line with both the Bill of Rights and their state constitutions. I've heard calls for registration for "assault weapons"(a term coined by an anti-rights weenie intended to scare an ignorant public), even though the Supreme Court has declared that criminals are exempt from registration due to it violating their right against self incrimination. Think about that for a moment. Let the stupidity of the "registration will lessen gun crimes" mingle with the fact that those very criminals are exempt from having to register their guns.
The Mexican people are begging for loosened gun laws so that they can protect themselves from the cartel hit squads, who are heavily armed with shit you aren't going to find at a gun show anywhere except Bloomberg's imagination. Like live grenades, LAW anti-tank rockets, MK19 grenade launchers, RPG7s, full auto AK47s (you can buy a full auto AK in the US, but it costs 200 bucks for the ATF to change the registry and about 12-14 thousand dollars for the rifle, after you fill out a form 4, beg your local chief law enforcement officer to sign that form 4, submit your 200 dollar check and provided you pass the ATF and FBI background check. Not cash and carry, no matter what sensationalistic news source you prefer.
Most of Mexico's cartel guns come from South America. Easier to bribe a border official (or threaten him and his family with torture and death) on Mexico's southern border and then you can just ship in truck fulls of weapons. Like the batch of grenades that originated in Korea, or the AK47s coming from China and former Soviet states. Particularly since the Border Patrol has been tightening up the border as much as they can-not easy to sneak a truck full of guns through an ICE x-ray machine. Much easier to use another route. Cheaper, too. Figure buying in bulk from some foreign government, they probably run about 75 bucks a piece, and that's for the real deal, full auto AK47. In the US, the price is closer to 5 or 600 dollars per, and that's for a semi-automatic rifle (looks like a big scary machine gun, but works just the same as grandpa's semi-auto hunting rifle-one trigger pull, one round fired.
If the administration doesn't come clean and then clean house, I fear it may be an albatross for Obama...
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