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:
It won’t bother his f’n game of hack on MV.
And you expected what?
Hard to tell if this is true. So much bs on the net
Why we can go back and forth w this like a he said she said the bottom line is we need sensible gun controls. No gun sale unless there are background checks. If you want to carry you need to demonstrate proficiency. Guns must be secured in the home and person to prevent accidental shootings and death. A truth is that the current laws are so weak that you could walk into a store in Arizona buy literally a hundred weapons and the following day sell them to whoever you want without breaking the law so these Fast and Furious weapons would have been in Mexico regardless. As for providing a story as a example here is one; a assault rifle used on Paris for a terrorist attack was traced to a Miami gun dealer Century Arms. So how does a weapon sold to a US gun dealer wind up in Paris used by a radical extremist terrorist to kill innocent civilians? I hope my friend Tony is just as outraged about this. Another little tidbit. This gun dealer was involved in the Iran Contra scandal. You older folks will remember that. Ronald Reagan sold weapons to Iran(the same Iran of radical Islamists that sponsors terrorist, wants to kill off Israel, etc. etc.). He sold them weapons to get secret cash that he then used to support the Contra rebels in order to overthrow the Nicaraguan socialist government.
I don’t know Jerry? Did we charge Ronald Reagan for aiding and abetting the Ayatollah’s Iranian government by secretly selling them arms to then provide the secret money to the Contra rebels to overthrow the socialist government of Nicaragua? BTW they also wanted to get the release of the hostages being held by Iran so that was also a arms for hostages deal as well. Did the republican hold 8 investigations over 3 years to find Reagan guilty. Thousands of documents were destroyed and not handed to Congress and in the end no one went to jail, etc.
John Shackford you didn’t mention the overthrow of legitimately elected governments or plain meddling in Central & South America. Guatemala and Dominican Republic are just two democratically elected governments overthrown and patsy strongmen put in charge for American interests. The instability of today in Honduras causing flight by its people can be traced back to these actions. The term Banana republic came about from these very actions. The Panama canal is a result of military support for rebels in Panama by the US to take property for building the canal. Rightly or wrongly i do not judge. They were different times but I point these things out because some people wonder why we are hated by them.
Your tax dollars at work
f**k that asshole
An ATF memo showed that that was the original purpose of Fast and Furious: so that the news of gun violence in Mexico any spillover into the U.S. would prompt calls for more gun control, for which the Obama Administration would be happy to oblige…
The agencies can track a firearm all around the world, but cannot complete competent background checks here at home. God help us!