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By: Hot Air » Blog Archive » The WaPo repeats the Mexican gun canard

Hot Air » Blog Archive » The WaPo repeats the Mexican gun canard — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 22:15:46 +0000

[...] Apparently, it’s not enough to skip checking the stats for Hsu. He has to wax poetic about “an iron river of guns,” which in the end makes him and his patented Layers of Fact-Checkers and Editors look all the more foolish. Because, as we know and the ATF has already admitted, that statistic is just plain false. [...]

By: Hot Air » Blog Archive » Obama to name Clinton border czar for repeat

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Obama to name Clinton border czar for repeat — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:31:53 +0000

[...] Of course, Bersin will act to impose Obama’s policies this time, and not Bill Clinton’s. So far, Obama has shown little resolve in blocking illegal border crossings. His administration, led by Janet Napolitano, has focused instead on blaming America for a gun problem in Mexico — which, as it turns out, is simply false. [...]

By: Karmashock

Karmashock — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 13:25:51 +0000

Only an idiot would believe we’re supplying the cartels with weapons. Thus whoever started this thing rolling thinks we’re idiots.

That’s a little offensive… though with all the crap they’ve been able to pull it might be justified. Time will tell on this one. I just hope my peers prove this guy wrong by being sharper then a bag full of hammers.

By: DSchoen

DSchoen — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 09:14:54 +0000

Kinda like that 1st “cell phones and driving don’t mix” In the study they asked folks who were involved in a traffic accident had cell phones with them at the time of the accident? Then, ONLY used folks that had a cell phone, eliminating all others. Then they asked them if “they had used their cell phones within 15 min. of the accident". Amazingly the VAST majority HAD ACTUALLY used their phone within 15 min. of the accident. What they DIDN’T ask if that “15 min” time frame was BEFORE the accident OR After the accident? I mean like hey, what reason could someone possibly have to use their cell phone AFTER the accident?

By: Hawthorne

Hawthorne — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 09:09:13 +0000

I heard today that 60% were in fact Military Weapons that WE had supplied to the Mexican Army “to fight the drug war” so technically they are coming from America.

Pole-Cat on April 4, 2009 at 3:03 AM

Well, that is a far cry from having American arms smuggled into Mexico by the cartels. That is more a measure of the incompetence and corruption of the Mexican government than problems here. The only problem that indicates here in America, is that our politicians love to misrepresent things to the American people.

By: Pole-Cat

Pole-Cat — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 07:03:43 +0000

I heard today that 60% were in fact Military Weapons that WE had supplied to the Mexican Army “to fight the drug war” so technically they are coming from America.

By: hawkdriver

hawkdriver — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 22:21:52 +0000

They’ve lost me as a customer.

Bob Owens on April 3, 2009 at 1:56 PM

Same here. If the industry survives, I pray they go out of business.

By: thaDeetz

thaDeetz — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 21:48:10 +0000

From. My. Cold. Dead. Hands.

By: nelsonknows

nelsonknows — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 21:03:01 +0000

This just in ….63 of 33,311 firearms found in Mexico had U.S. Serial numbers.

By: Spade

Spade — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 20:34:39 +0000

check it out

The U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives recently reported that up to 95 percent of guns seized at scenes of drug violence in Mexico can be traced to U.S. commercial sources.

We're up to 95% now!

By: Limerick

Limerick — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 19:41:17 +0000

Anyone actually been to a gun show? Anyone who has actually bought a gun? Anyone who did, how many of you didn’t fill out the yellow sheet?

Case closed, as far as I am concerned. These illegal weapons come from criminals stealing them from legal owners and not from legitimate purchases in the U.S. Now I know that isn’t news to any serious HotAirHeads. Just thought I’d state the obvious to you Huffington fools before I demostrate my property rights.

By: nelsonknows

nelsonknows — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 19:23:20 +0000

Why would Hezbollah be selling weapons? They can’t produce guns themselves. I’d have thought they would be looking to buy arms.

aengus on April 3, 2009 at 3:11 PM

Did I say SELLING? NO I didn’t, I said MOVING guns into Mexico. That means PROCUREMENT. We know that Hezbollah is involved with the Mexican Cartels now, we know China runs the Ports in Mexico, we ALSO know that Venezuela funnels money and arms to leftist revolutionaries who work closely with Columbian and Mexican Drug cartels and Venezuela opened a manufacturing facility last September that produces AK rifles and RPG-7s.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/mar/27/hezbollah-uses-mexican-drug-routes-into-us/

http://www.usatoday.com/news/topstories/2008-10-07-3782660251_x.htm

By: SKYFOX

SKYFOX — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 19:15:32 +0000

What I’m not sure of is are people hoarding because they are afraid they won’t be able to get ammo in the future, or are they afraid they will have to use it to save the country from a domestic enemy.

saiga

Answer: Yes.

By: aengus

aengus — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 19:11:06 +0000

Hezbollah, China, and Venezuela are involved in moving firearms to the cartels in Mexico…..

nelsonknows on April 3, 2009 at 3:05 PM

Why would Hezbollah be selling weapons? They can’t produce guns themselves. I’d have thought they would be looking to buy arms.

By: burt

burt — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 19:09:19 +0000

“We probably can discount any mathematical calculations made by the Barack Obama administration after we discovered that they overstated the TARP funds by a hundred billion dollars, but consider this just an extra data point.”

This administration only uses one significant figure. For dollars the significant figure is trillions.

By: aengus

aengus — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 19:07:50 +0000

The gangs most likely steal their hardware from the Mexican Army. In any case there are many sources for weapons aside from the US.

By: nelsonknows

nelsonknows — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 19:05:29 +0000

Hezbollah, China, and Venezuela are involved in moving firearms to the cartels in Mexico…..

By: nelsonknows

nelsonknows — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 19:02:54 +0000

I have been trying to educate posters on Hot Air for about a month that these reports were a lie and the actual report says only 17% of the 6% of firearms found in Mexico came from the U.S., do the math, that’s 1.02 %. This is ALL propaganda from Eric Holder, Janet Napalitano, BATF&E, Rhom Emmanuel and the O’bunghole administration to attempt to attack the Second Amendment and pass Unconstitutional gun laws. Shades of WACO when the Brady Bill and The Assault Weapon ban were dead on arrival to the House of Representitives but were revived after the fraudulent attack on the Mount Carmel compound.

Too bad idiot RINOs like Newt Gingrich swilled the koolaid of leftist propaganda.

Leftists lie….it’s what they do.

By: KMC1

KMC1 — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 18:53:49 +0000

This is the same lie that is being told by Canadian media about guns in Canada. Blame big bad America for their gun crime, while at the same time not acknowledging that in fact most of the guns are NOT American made…. and of course NOT wanting to connect their lax attitude about drug use to the crime in the first place.
It’s just so much easier to point fingers at the big bad American boogey man.

By: Oldnuke

Oldnuke — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 18:51:01 +0000

I was an MM, live in Aberdeen MD.

kmonarrez@comcast.net

ExSubNuke on April 3, 2009 at 2:32 PM

Incoming.

By: ExSubNuke

ExSubNuke — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 18:32:01 +0000

Oldnuke on April 3, 2009 at 11:34 AM

I was an MM, live in Aberdeen MD.

kmonarrez@comcast.net

By: saiga

saiga — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 18:04:17 +0000

Cheaper Than Dirt is among the worst on the market right now in terms of gouging their customers during this shortage.

They’ve lost me as a customer.

Bob Owens on April 3, 2009 at 1:56 PM

Midway USA is out, and so are most other distributors. Even Academy has a 4 box purchase limit. Something is up because people are hoarding ammo.

By: Badger40

Badger40 — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 18:01:53 +0000

vapig on April 3, 2009 at 1:58 PM

Thanks for the tip.
It’s been in the back of my mind for a long time.

By: saiga

saiga — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 17:59:36 +0000

The Obama government in crushing the rights of US citizens more and more every day. More government, less rights.

The second ammendment was designed to keep the people in charge, and that scares the left wing socialists that are in charge now.

Stay tuned, it should get interesting.

By: vapig

vapig — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 17:58:41 +0000

I need to go to gun-smithing school-under an assumed name, of course. Bcs I’m sure those guys will be the first to be eliminated at the start of the rev. Badger40 on April 3, 2009 at 12:50 PM

Just google gunsmithing course and several options pop up. Then you don't have to "go" anywhere!