Comments on: CNN kicks out the anti-gun bias with the help of ATF

By: countertop

countertop — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 04:58:56 +0000

Bill Beck, are you referring to the Data Quality Act? Its actually an amendment (well, I guess thats what you’d call it – it was really an appropriations rider) to the Paperwork Reduction Act which is Title 44. Title 18 is the criminal code.

Tom Stone – what are you talking about?

By: Gun Blobber

Gun Blobber — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 02:11:06 +0000

I found this particularly interesting:

Officer Cesar Quitana patrols a dangerous barrio in Juarez, Mexico. He is armed with an M16 assault rifle — a weapon that would be no match in a gunfight with drug lords.

Wait, you mean this dangerous high-capacity assault rifle isn’t actually all that powerful? *gasp*

Actually the problem with this quote is that the officer is undergunned when facing multiple opponents with *any* type of gun, which is the likely scenario. But it is wonderfully ironic that he’s cited as “no match” for US civilian-legal weapons when he’s got a full-auto military M-16, banned to us peons north of the border!

By: Tom Stone

Tom Stone — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 01:32:23 +0000

The Law does not apply to agents of the federal government any more.

By: Billy Beck

Billy Beck — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:14:33 +0000

Before I hit that link, I thought I was the only one in all the blogs who knew anything about Title 18.

On the other hand, I discovered — twenty-one years ago — how nearly impossible it is to get a case like that into federal court.

By: countertop

countertop — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:54:46 +0000

Here's a link to DOJ's Data Quality guidelines

By: countertop

countertop — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:50:19 +0000

wouldn’t it be funny if someone filed a Data Quality Act petition with the ATF forcing them to withdraw the public statements of Tom Mangam???

Hmm . . . .