[smokingfrog]

Dan Freedman should be ashamed of repeating this claptrap, especially after the Project Gunrunner & Fast and Furious scandal.

[Jack Hammer]

“The gun traffickers supplying Mexican drug organizations have become more selective and sophisticated in the weapons they acquire,”’ said Kristen Rand...

No problem, Kristen - just place your cartel’s order with the BATFE, and they’ll be happy to send ‘em along!

[Carthego delenda est]

“A Hearst Newspapers survey of 1,600 guns purchased mostly in Texas and Arizona - which were either shipped to Mexico or intercepted en route - shows the Bushmaster .223 AR-15 ranks second among firearms apparently used in drug warfare.”

“Mexican drug traffickers followed a time-honored maxim of product salesmanship: Bigger is definitely better.”

Which is it Dan Freedman? Biger bullets incriminating foreign made AK’s or Bushmaster’s .223?

“Shipped or intercepted”?

This BATFEXYZ123 propaganda ‘Operation Gun Runner’ sh*t needs more daylight.

[ltc8k6]

Enforce the law.

[TigersEye]

It's just pro-Marxist propaganda. Trying to prop up the failing policies of the 0baMao regime. We've seen the overall statistic that 17% of guns recovered from drug cartel crimes came from the U.S. but the author leaves that out and uses statistics with highly selective criterion to make it look like most guns in Mexico came from the U.S.

He fails to mention that the BATF ordered gun dealers to sell hundreds of guns to straw buyers who they knew were taking them to Mexico.

Are they going to tell us that the cartels get their hand grenades, RPGs, mortars with mortar shells and IEDs from American gun shops too?

[brushcop]

AR-15s are SEMI-auto, that’s NOT a weapon of choice for a Narco-terrorist, it’s a LEGAL home owner’s weapon of choice.

[calex59]

This kind of crap was the sole reason for operation gunrunner. In fact if this story is true(which in may not be), then the guy they are talking about is probably a BATFE agent.

The government could not find the guns they claimed were being shipped to Mexico so they shipped some on their own in order to restrict our second amendment rights even more.

[Erik Latranyi]

Every FReeper needs to e-mail Dan Freedman to inform him about Project Gunrunner.

dan@hearstdc.com

[MarkL]

Exactly my first thought... Did the BATFE actually enable those weapons to get through to Mexico? I'm still a bit fuzzy on how long that operations was going on, but I believe that THOUSANDS of weapons were smuggled across the border with a wink and a nod from the US Government.

I have NO DOUBT WHATSOEVER that the intention for "Operation Fast and Furious" was to generate "evidence" to allow articles like this one to be published, to gin up new calls for gun control.

Mark

[smokingfrog]

Telling the Truth About the Mexican Drug Cartels’ Guns