Sunday, July 24, 2011

COMMON SENSE TELLS US IT CAN'T BE TRUE

What has happened to the ATF? It used to be such a reliable law enforcement agency. Now it has been reduced to a political hack for the gun-control crowd.

The ATF, in response to an inquiry from California’s Sen. Dianne Feinstein, has informed her that of the 29,284 guns recovered from drug cartels in Mexico, and submitted for tracing in 2009 and 2010, 20,504 were “United States-sourced firearms.” To Sen. Feinstein and New York’s Sen. Charles Schumer, both ardent gun-control advocates, that means only one thing – 70 percent of the drug cartels’ guns came from American gun dealers.

Feinstein and Schumer are using the ATF report to buttress legislation they have introduced to reinstate the expired ban on ‘assault rifles’ like the AK-47 and the AR-15, as well as additional gun restrictions.

20,504 firearms purchased by straw-buyers from American gun dealers in a two year period? Come on, let’s get real! Common sense tells us that can’t be true. It would take an awful lot of straw-buyers to purchase one, two or even three assault rifles at a time and then try to smuggle them into Mexico. No way, Jose! Common sense tells us that most of those 20,504 guns, if they actually did originate in the U.S., came from large-scale arms dealers rather than from gun dealers along the border.

The ATF has become a tool of the anti-gunners and has lost a lot of credibility with me.

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