The problem isn’t easy access to guns,
but easy access to oxygen.
Certain people shouldn’t be breathing.
Don Feder, Boston Herald, 3/30/98
Molon Labe.
I call Bull-elephant sh!t here. The ignorance about this topic is so vast that feces from the male cattle can’t describe this.
The very fact that Jamaica has AK-47s proves that they’re not getting their weapons from America. In fact, most people in the West Indies look upon American made products with deep suspicion. Guns included.
It rained in Zimbabwe on Thursday, so we must ban guns here. /dumbass lib speak
This is not a Second Amendment issue, as this import ban only applies to halting shipments of assault weapons with no sporting purpose at and before they reach US borders.
Enforcing this import ban – which is independent of the Assault Weapons Ban of 1994 – requires no legislative action and would be a win-win for the US and our partners in the Americas.
THIS is supposed to be a guy who is pro-gun? THIS is supposed to convince anyone (particularly the rabid anti-gun people in Congress and the Administration) not to pass a new AWB? This guy is just another statist jackass.
What about the FACT that most of the weapons seized in Mexico were sold to the Mexican government, and that they were sold to or stolen by the drug cartels? That might put those figures in some perspective. What about the FACT that the grenades and rocket launchers paraded around as if they were purchased at US gunshows are actually NOT sold at gunshows and are actually illegal to own? I guess that it would be too inconvenient to mention these facts.
“Over 90% of firearms confiscated yearly in Mexico orginate in the United States.”
Right off the bat, the premise is wrong. The NAFBPO keeps a good eye on this issue. Here’s an article they sent today about this.
Mexico’s weapons cache stymies tracing
http://www.seattlepi.com/national/1102ap_lt_drug_war_weapons.html
[snip]About a third of the guns submitted for tracing in 2007 were sold by licensed U.S. dealers.
In all, the military has 305,424 confiscated weapons locked in vaults, just a fraction of those used by criminals in Mexico, where an offensive by drug cartels against the military has killed more than 10,750 people since December 2006. But each weapon is a clue to how the cartels are getting arms, and possibly to the traffickers that brought them here.
The U.S. has acknowledged that many of the rifles, handguns and ammunition used by the cartels come from its side of the border. Mexican gun laws are strict, especially compared to those in most U.S. border states.
The Mexican government has handed over information to U.S. authorities to trace 12,073 weapons seized in 2008 crimes - particularly on guns from large seizures or notorious crimes.
But the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, which handles the U.S. investigations, is at the mercy of local Mexican police for the amount and quality of the information.