The ATF angle is only a show for budget justification. I truly believe the ATF is only a cover for the actual folks who tracked the guns...
“...as well as components for improvised explosive devices (IEDs).”
I don’t know about ya’ll, but none of the gun stores in my town stock C4 or IR-beam detonators.
I suspect someone with 100’s of millions in cash can find weapons for sale just about anywhere he chooses.
The ATF angle is only a show for budget justification. I truly believe the ATF is only a cover for the actual folks who tracked the guns...
“People in foreign countries sometimes do bad things. And that’s why we need to infringe your Second Amendment rights. I’m sure you won’t mind.”
Gonna burn any of them alive?
Anything to take the focus off Mexican nationals on U. S. soil...
Mexico is so much better at keeping contraband out of their nation than we are at keeping it out of ours. These guns couldn’t possibly be smuggled in over Mexico’s thousands of miles of beaches.
My guess is that some gun dealers in the U. S. will be found to have transferred a bee bee gun or some such, and their licenses will be taken.
Is this about illegal guns or too many legal gun dealers?
I wish we had a president who loved this country and the constitution. He would give the BATF a barbed wire enema.
BTW, is there an appropriations for the ATF coming up in Congress? If so, I’d advise all gun dealers to close for a few months. Either that or have their gun shop retrofitted to withstand tanks, flammable chemical powder by the ton, incendiary devices, shaped charges, and snipers.
Other than that, I’d say it’s business as usual for the gun dealers. Hell, that’s already business as usual for the ATF.
I'm so sure that a mom and pop operation or some local yahoo can provide them with a couple of hundred AR-15's but what about ammo, night vision, clips, optics, and the high end sub-guns. Most of the wet work is with any weapon on hand that has ammo. The cartels could even go to Africa and obtain weapons from Middle Eastern countries like........ Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Afghanistan, through Somalia or other African countries.
It's always been about money as far as weapons are concerned. The drug cartels have plenty of cash. The ATF just wants another excuse to throw a road block to owning and selling weapons by Americans.
Though the article opened with “by targeting cartel networks inside this country and “corrupt” U.S. firearms dealers”, curiously enough, not one “corrupt” gun dealer was mentioned in the article. The one gun dealer mentioned was found to have done nothing wrong.
“as well as components for improvised explosive devices (IEDs)”
I think they’re talking about things like cell phones you can buy at Walmart and pipes, wire and such at Ace Hardware, Home Depot, and Lowes. Hell, the Unibomber made all of his bombs from stuff he found in old junk piles and used nothing but hand tools.
I sell firearms for a living and the word on the street is BATFE has no interest in going after the end users of the ILLEGALLY purchased firearms; but simply to put EVERY gun shop in the border states out of business...PERIOD!
If the Feds would simply put a dead-or-alive bounty on illegals in this country, and let the armed citizens have at ‘em, I believe the problem would quickly resolve itself.
When selling guns is illegal only criminals will sell guns.