No, I think it’s already out of the media’s attention. Not like it ever really was. Meanwhile, one of the guns was used to murder a police chief and bodyguard in Mexico.

Audio recordings between the main dealer and ATF: Watch your back. Anyone who thinks it was inadvertent is a fool. Collateral damage. Wow. Obstruction. I am shocked. Issa holds phone conference with bloggers.

In the US: I would like to see the assault weapons ban reinstated – it’s not philosophical, it’s because of what we have seen on the ground…There is a direct correlation between the assault ban and expiring in 2004 and the numbers – simply the sheer numbers – of assault weapons that we seize in […]

Report on a forum of ATF agents interviewing people who have bought more than five guns. Seems they’re trying to find out how these guns are getting into Mexico. If true, they’re using that gun registry we don’t have.

Once more, with feeling. Yon is still bitterly clinging to the Mexican Gun Canard. When he’s not calling us fanatics for pointing out facts and stuff, he’s happily parroting talking points that have been proven false. The latest is Yon’s re-publishing a rebuttal to a FoxNews piece by Todd Bensman. You see, you should take […]

Don’t tell Yon, but I’d say a fair amount of Mexican AK-47s are coming from that Venezuelan factory.

A bit back I mentioned Michael Yon’s falling for the Mexican Gun Canard. He continues to parrot that line. If you disagree with him and use facts and reason and stuff, you are a fanatic. UJ tells Yon to stop digging, which is good advice when you’re in a hole.

I expect the press to repeat the lies about guns in Mexico. But not Michael Yon.

More misrepresentation that rocket launchers are heading into Mexico from the US. Insty also says: If rocket launchers and grenades are making it into Mexico from the United States, it’s because they’re being sold out the back door of military and police armories, since civilian gun stores don’t sell them. Say, anyone know the rate […]

We’ve known for a bit about Operation Wide Receiver, which was a Bush era operation that sent RFID tagged guns to Mexico. Apparently, the latest spin is that, because ATF did it under Bush, that makes it A-OK with everyone: The federal government under the Bush administration ran an operation that allowed hundreds of guns […]

From their blog on ATF and guns in Mexico: Penalties associated with straw purchasing, up to 10 years in federal prison and a $250,000 fine, should be supplemented with a mandatory minimum sentence. NSSF supports a five (5) year mandatory minimum sentence for anyone convicted of lying to a federally licensed firearms retailer as a […]

The ATF, having solved all of those pesky problems with running guns to Mexico, has decided to crack down on seal bombs. These are apparently firecrackers that fishermen use to scare seals and birds away from their fishing lines. Seriously: Fishermen were warned that as of May 1, the ATF would enforce a federal law […]

SIH: At a press conference announcing the arrests, Holder also suggested that re-instituting a U.S. ban on the sale of assault weapons would help reduce the bloodshed in Mexico, where last year 6,000 people were killed in drug-related violence. Ah, the Mexican gun canard rears its head once again. I told you it was dogma […]

In comments here, Curtis highlights this: …she [Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano – ed.] will give Mexican authorities access to a government database to trace the U.S. origin of seized weapons. And he responds with: Is that the database that they weren’t legally supposed to build/maintain? Populated with data from 4473s and/or NICS checks – […]

You would expect a retired general to know guns. You’d be wrong. He does, however, know his PSH: Mexican law enforcement authorities and soldiers face heavily armed drug gangs with high-powered military automatic weapons. Perhaps 90% of these weapons are smuggled across the US border. They are frequently purchased from licensed US gun dealers in […]

Via, well, everyone comes this: The United States has 90 guns for every 100 citizens, making it the most heavily armed society in the world, a report released on Tuesday said. U.S. citizens own 270 million of the world’s 875 million known firearms, according to the Small Arms Survey 2007 by the Geneva-based Graduate Institute […]

The week before I left for Camp Perry a guy was killed at a horserace here in Smith County, Texas. His murderer shot him eight times and walked away through a crowd of over 600 people that were watching the horses. Now…there is no horseracing in Smith County. According to the newspaper the 600+ people […]

Viagra/v1@6ra/cialis and all that: Sorry, but I really don’t need a boner for 36 hours, even if it’s just $0.09 per pill. First Third Bank: seriously, that’s the name you came up with? Am I supposed to guess like the next word or something? Haja Laila Hassan: SORRY BUT I DON’T DO BUSINESS WITH PEOPLE […]

Behold, the Raging Rinos, created by The Commissar for secular and moderate conservatives who don’t drink the party Kool-Aid on issues such as whether it’s legal for dudes to diddle dudes and all that God business. Republican, without all the crazy. J.D. has kicked around many logos for the group, following some issues with the […]

As I promised, here is the review of the concealed carry class offered in the Otero county region… Overall, the class was very informative about a number of issues regarding firearms laws in New Mexico, many of which are quite draconic but that is to be expected in a state with such a low population […]

For those of you out there wondering where I’ve been lately… Does anyone out there have the personal experience of having gravel in their eyes? I’d like to compare notes, you see. I left for laser eye surgery about two weeks ago, and only just got back. The specific surgery I received was PRK, which […]

Kevin has intimated that I am anti-Government people. I am not. I just think that the government has crossed the line regarding where it can and should intervene. What do I want from my government? Here’s where my Libertarian readership will scratch their heads. Here goes: Public education. Yes, our education is terrible because of […]

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