The Obama administration is determined to tighten gun regulations and background checks, and to add hundreds or thousands of veterans to a list that will prevent them from buying guns for sport, personal protection, or simply for pleasure because “guns are dangerous and can fall into the hands of criminals and terrorists.” At least that is the purported aim. Many of these people will lose their Constitutional right to own a firearm without any due process. And the real secret is the long term objective, which is to confiscate all guns from law abiding citizens, whether that takes months or years.
The irony is that while the Obama administration has been working overtime to take guns away from any number of Americans (and we are talking tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands), the Justice Department, under the direction of Attorney Eric Holder, launched a program called Fast and Furious early in Obama’s first term that placed thousands of guns in the hands of criminals, including exceedingly violent gang members, with the purported purpose of “tracking” them to Mexican drug lords, thus allowing Mexican and U.S. police to arrest and incarcerate these criminals. The end result, however, was that the Justice Department lost track of virtually all of the weapons, with a few notable exceptions.
So while Obama is doing everything possible to take guns away from law-abiding citizens, he was handing hundreds of high-powered weapons to criminals and other bad guys.
How does that make sense?
See where Fast and Furious weapons ended up, page 2:
If true, this is bad. The administration will only say what matter does it make now?
Of Course it is
John Shackford cogent and succinct. You sir, are a Facebook oddity.
Why are the criminals wearing bulletproof vests?
So Eric Holder should be handed over to the French for the crime of Terrorism and Barry as an accomplice for the act of Terrorism, and throw in Hillary for good measure.
Is much as I love my guns and hate Obama this story is complete BULL $hit. A “gun owner”” cannot sell a gun “off book” since there is no f’ing book. ANY private citizen can sell their private property to anyone they want. Fast and furious was an operation where illegal straw buyers were buying guns from licensed dealers, when the dealers reported the illegal conduct to the ATF the dealers were told it was OK to sell the guns to the straw buyers as they were being tracked. F&F was never about any private owner. Obama has done so many stupid, unconstitutional, illegal things there is no need to make$#%&!@*up to get clicks on your cite.
What !
Again I ask ..this surprises you???
Outstanding! So does this mean that Obama and Holder should be arrested and indicted for aiding and abetting international terrorists?
They used the paperwork to track it back to the seller of a illegal machinegun? I am willing to bet it wasn’t a fully automatic weapon when he sold it, but why let facts get in the way of a good story…