Obama Admin Lies About Mexico Gun Sources

More lies from Ocommie, out to destroy the constitution at any cost!



Obama administration, Congressional anti-gunners mislead public on guns in Mexico
April 2, 11:43 AM · 12 comments
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Distorting, perhaps deliberately, a statistic provided during Congressional testimony by a deputy administrator for the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), the Obama administration and anti-gun members of Congress are laboring to convince American citizens that an overwhelming majority of guns being used by Mexican cartels in their drug war are coming from this country.

But a Fox News investigation and other journalists – including my colleagues David Codrea and Kurt Hoffman – have all revealed that this campaign of gun demonization is based on a lie.

Sadly, when the smoke clears, the wrong people are probably going to get blamed for all of this. When William Hoover, ATF assistant director for Field Operations, told Congress that 90 percent of the guns about which Mexican authorities had made inquiries to his agency had been traced back to the United States, he was apparently not being precisely accurate.
According to Fox News, here’s what Hoover said before a Congressional committee: “...there is more than enough evidence to indicate that over 90 percent of the firearms that have either been recovered in, or interdicted in transport to Mexico, originated from various sources within the United States.”
However, according to his prepared remarks, this is what Hoover’s statement said: “In fact, according to ATF’s National Tracing Center, 90 percent of the weapons that could be traced were determined to have originated from various sources within the U.S.”
There is a great deal of difference in the remark quoted by Fox and what is written in Hoover’s prepared statement.
But people like Sen. Dianne Feinstein and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and others have picked up an apparently foul ball and are keeping it in play. And that’s certainly the way gun prohibition zealots on Capitol Hill and in the offices of the Violence Policy Center and Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence are deliberately and erroneously spinning this story.
Hoover’s written testimony never implied that 90 percent of all the guns being recovered by Mexican authorities from crime scenes are coming from America. It’s not fair to people at the ATF who put together those numbers, and it certainly isn’t fair to millions of American citizens who own the kinds of firearms that Feinstein, Clinton, Attorney General Eric Holder, or his boss would like to permanently ban.


In other words, 68 percent of the guns that were recovered were never submitted for tracing. And when you weed out the roughly 6,000 guns that could not be traced from the remaining 32 percent, it means 83 percent of the guns found at crime scenes in Mexico could not be traced to the U.S.


The gun traces to which Hoover was alluding, according to an ATF spokeswoman, hardly represent all of the guns being recovered at Mexican crime scenes. They amount to a fraction of those guns, according to the Fox News report and others, and that’s also what Gun Week will be reporting in its next issue, under my byline.
Fox reporter William La Juenesse was on with KVI talk host Kirby Wilbur Thursday, April 2 noting that in 2007-2008, Mexico recovered some 29,000 guns at crime scenes, but only submitted inquiries about 11,000 guns to the ATF for tracing, and about 6,000 of those firearms were successfully traced. Of those, 5,114 were found to have come from this country. That is the “90 percent” about which Hoover’s written statement dealt.


Reporter after politician after news anchor just disregards the truth on this. The numbers are intentionally used to weaken the Second Amendment. – NRA’s Chris Cox


As the 90 percent story begins to fall apart, watch people like Clinton, Feinstein and others – who never seem to be held accountable for their own gaffes – try to stick Hoover and ATF with this fiasco.

Meanwhile, a story appeared the other day in the Tacoma News Tribune that I simply could not resist, about an accidental shooting involving a drunk woman who was playing with a pistol.
The report said she put the pistol to her head, pressed the trigger, and when nothing happened, she put a cartridge in the chamber, put the gun to her head a second time, and fatally shot herself.
Now, here’s something you will not see on the next episode of CSI: According to the newspaper, “the Pierce County Medical Examiner’s office will conduct an autopsy on the woman…and determine the manner of death.”
Yeah, like there’s a big mystery to be solved here!




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