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Report: Almost 70% of Guns Found in Mexico Came From US
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| Monday, 30 Apr 2012 02:58 PM
| Newsmax Wires
Posted on 04/30/2012 12:29:28 PM PDT by Olog-hai
A new report from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) shows that more than more than 68,000or 68 percentof the 99,691 guns recovered in Mexico between 2007 and 2011 were either made in the U.S. or legally brought into the U.S. at some point.
As you might expect, gun-rights advocates and gun-control advocates view the data quite differently, The Hill reports.
Gun-rights advocates say the 68 percent number is overstated because the sample pool only reflects guns submitted to the ATF for traces. There are many other guns in Mexico, and many dont have a U.S. connection, they say. Guns-rights supporters say Democrats try to use the inflated percentages to promote gun control.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: atf; fastandfurious; firearms; lmm; mexico
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posted on
04/30/2012 12:29:34 PM PDT
by
Olog-hai
To: Olog-hai
Ya. And about 70% of the people found in America came from Mexico!
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posted on
04/30/2012 12:31:06 PM PDT
by
donozark
(Marg Helgenberger! Wherever you are! What the hell do I do with all these DNA samples you requested?)
To: donozark
To: Olog-hai
Most of them stamped: Property of Eric Holder
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posted on
04/30/2012 12:34:04 PM PDT
by
ConservaTexan
(February 6, 1911)
To: donozark
Ya. And about 70% of the people found in America came from Mexico!
Are you proposing we give them the people back in exchange for our guns?
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posted on
04/30/2012 12:34:51 PM PDT
by
PeterPrinciple
(Lord, save me from some conservatives, they don't understand history any better than liberals.)
To: Olog-hai
Almost 70% of the illegal drugs found in the U.S. came from Mexico. So what’s the ATF’s point?
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posted on
04/30/2012 12:36:33 PM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
(Dumb, dependent and Democrat is no way to go through life. - Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas)
To: Olog-hai
Any company in mexico make guns? Then I guess they would have to be imported. Need to call Holder and ask for an inventory of what he sent down.
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posted on
04/30/2012 12:37:19 PM PDT
by
edcoil
(It is not over until I win.)
To: Olog-hai
How many of the American made guns came from the Mexican army? The cartels have recruiting signs hanging from highway overpasses aimed at Mexican soldiers. The soldiers desert and take arms and equipment with them. That is how the Zetas started.
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posted on
04/30/2012 12:37:34 PM PDT
by
forgotten man
(forgotten man)
To: Olog-hai
There are no Mexican gun manufacturers so they have to come from somewhere else.
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posted on
04/30/2012 12:38:18 PM PDT
by
unkus
(Silence Is Consent)
To: Olog-hai
Amazing. The child, with his hand caught in the cookie jar, yells loudly about other cookie thefts, and proposes harsh new cookie-theft laws.
10
posted on
04/30/2012 12:38:18 PM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(Admin Moderator refuses to let me hit it. -- http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2875871/posts)
To: PeterPrinciple
Only if BATFE approves.../s
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posted on
04/30/2012 12:38:42 PM PDT
by
donozark
(Marg Helgenberger! Wherever you are! What the hell do I do with all these DNA samples you requested?)
To: Olog-hai
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posted on
04/30/2012 12:40:15 PM PDT
by
TigersEye
(Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
To: Olog-hai
Almost 70% of Guns Found in Mexico Came From US Fast and Falsely Furious.
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I'm pretty certain 90% of cars found in Mexico came from the US, and cars kill more people than guns, so...
LET'S BAN ALL CARS!
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posted on
04/30/2012 12:40:26 PM PDT
by
MamaTexan
(I am a ~Person~ as created by the Law of Nature, not a 'person' as created by the laws of Man)
To: Olog-hai
Absolute lie.
About 70% of the guns CHECKED with the ATF come from the US.
They only check them if they suspect they came from the US.
The vast majority are not checked with the ATF because there is no reason to believe those guns came from the US.
Guns are much cheaper to get from other countries than from the US.
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posted on
04/30/2012 12:41:53 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Government is the religion of the sociopath.)
To: FlingWingFlyer
Almost 70% of the illegal drugs and illegal aliens found in the U.S. came from Mexico. So how about we take back our guns and return the illegal drugs and illegal aliens to them? Wouldn't it be nice?
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posted on
04/30/2012 12:43:43 PM PDT
by
Vigilanteman
(Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
To: Olog-hai
And the dividend of “Fast and Furious” pays off for this administration
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posted on
04/30/2012 12:43:55 PM PDT
by
Wizdum
(My job is to get you to shoot soda out your nose)
To: Olog-hai
Report: Almost 70% of Guns Found in Mexico Came From US BS!
Am I the only one that knows the facts?
Of all the guns that can be traced, yadda yadda...
95% of the guns in Mexico CAN'T BE TRACED!
Another "Damn the U.S.A. moment...
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posted on
04/30/2012 12:43:57 PM PDT
by
Publius6961
("It's easy to make promises you can't keep" - B.H.Obama Feb 23, 2012)
To: Olog-hai
What they are forgetting to mention is that most (AR15 derivatives like the M-16) of them were legally tranferred to the various militaries of South and Central America by the US Goevernment.
In other words, the corrupt and incompetent governments of Central and South America armed the drug cartels out of their own armories.
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posted on
04/30/2012 12:44:40 PM PDT
by
Little Ray
(FOR the best Conservative in the Primary; AGAINST Obama in the General.)
To: Olog-hai
Build the fence...secure our border!
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posted on
04/30/2012 12:45:54 PM PDT
by
weston
(As far as I'm concerned, it's Christ or nothing!)
To: Olog-hai
Well when you have no domestic manufacturing capability it kind of makes sense that most would be from the nearest location that does. That is just common sense. If the majority were from China, that would be something unexpected.
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posted on
04/30/2012 12:47:49 PM PDT
by
GonzoGOP
(There are millions of paranoid people in the world and they are all out to get me.)
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