Posted on 06/21/2012 8:16:38 AM PDT by opentalk
* ?absurd? because no self-respecting drug lord is going to send people across a (semi-) guarded border to buy semi-automatic weapons at $600-$1,000 per, when they can have all that they want of FULL auto guns from any number of sources around the world for $100-$200 each.
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Not to mention that the international arms dealers sell small arms are sold by the ton not piece.
Was it as “unwarranted” as your “executive privilege” dodge?
TREATY ENDANGERS SECOND AMENDMENT AND U.S. SOVEREIGNTY(April 2009)
Unlike Clinton, Obama has no plans to let the treaty languish without ratification. Thus he promised to push the treaty through the Senate quickly as a means of curtailing the border violence and arms trafficking in Mexico’s current drug wars. Yet the text of CIFTA indicates that the treaty would do very little to curtail violence in Mexico, unless creating a national gun registry in the United States is something that will cut crime south of the borderOn April 16, 2009, President Obama emerged from a meeting with Mexico’s President Calderón to announce his support for the “Inter-American Convention against the Illicit Manufacturing and Trafficking in Firearms” treaty (CIFTA): an international gun control treaty signed by President Bill Clinton in 1997 but never ratified by the U.S. Senate.
additional article,
I wouldn’t doubt that for a minute. Maybe not the whole reason but a good part of it.
Project Gunrunner was the agency-wide program. F&F was part of Project Gunrunner out of the Tucson ATF office just as Operation Castaway was, which ran guns to Honduras out of the Tampa ATF office, as a part of Project Gunrunner. One of the guns used to kill ICE Agent Jaime Zapata was “walked” from a Texas gun shop so that would have been a different ATF operation than F&F too but still part of Project Gunrunner.
Unwarranted?
Then let’s get a warrant.
Wow, it’s sounds as though you are really on top of all of this. So, why doesn’t Issa just subpoena Janet Napolitano?
I have tried to follow this closely since Jan. ‘11 but I don’t know why Issa hasn’t subpoenaed Napolitano.
Communist thugs with guns and FBI files tend to be arrogant.
Don’t let their suits fool you. They are no different than Fidel Castro. They would put a bullet in my head if they could. The Border agents will back me up on that.
Holder is a Clinton recycle. Hillary was in the media claiming %90 Mexican guns come from US. I wouldn't be surprised if the documents show the connection.
Federal Assault Weapons Ban: Eric Holder Gun Control (Feb 2009)
Attorney General Eric Holder stated in a press conference today that Barack Obama’s administration will seek to reinstate the federal assault weapons ban that expired in 2004. Eric Holder was speaking at a news conference announcing a crackdown against a Mexican drug cartel in the United States
... administration will seek to reinstate a federal assault weapons ban that was instituted under Bill Clinton in 1994, and expired under President George W. Bush in 2004. The Federal Assault Weapons Ban was part of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act in 1994.
... The Federal Assault Weapons Ban was a ten-year ban that expired under the Bush Administration. Dianne Feinstein introduced a bill to have the ban reinstated in 2004, but was defeated. Needless to say, conservative sites such as Stop the ACLU are not happy with this announcement. Fox News is arguing that renewing the Federal Assault Weapons Ban will have zero impact on crime.
The downside is that I doubt Congress even understands what the people mean by that.
Good grief. He used every UN-word but unexpected...
I figured that it would be - my comment was mainly for the benefit of those new to the whole set of issues surrounding Murdergate.
I’m beginning to suspect that Congress is afraid to take strong action because they know this is just one of many impeachable actions taken by Obama. If they remove one card from the pyramid the whole thing comes tumbling down and we’re in a huge constitutional crisis.
I suspect they know that Obama’s documents are fake and they will be held responsible if the truth about that and many other infractions become known.
And they should be held responsible for their inaction.
Understood.
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