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Member Section => Politics & RKBA => Topic started by: Roy Hill on February 19, 2009, 08:31:43 PM
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Dems urge import ban.....of things that are already banned!
Here it comes, boys and girls.
http://www.kvia.com/Global/story.asp?S=9873215
Dems urge Obama to ban importation of assault weapons
Posted: Feb 19, 2009 01:25 PM
Updated: Feb 19, 2009 06:26 PM
MEXICO CITY (AP) - More than 50 U.S. lawmakers sent a letter to President Barack Obama urging him to enforce a ban on importing assault weapons.
The 53 lawmakers, all Democrats, say many such guns are later smuggled south to arm Mexico's ruthless drug cartels.
The ban was implemented under the administrations of President George H.W. Bush and President Bill Clinton, and the U.S. government can enforce it under provisions of the 1968 Gun Control Act.
But the lawmakers say in their letter that the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has quietly abandoned the ban in recent years. The ATF declined to comment.
The ATF estimates that 90 percent of weapons seized in Mexico come from sources within the United States. Mexico has long demanded that the United States do more to stop the flow of weapons south, and Obama has pledged to step up those efforts.
Congress included $10 million in the economic stimulus package approved last week for the ATF's Project Gunrunner, which targets gun-trafficking networks in the U.S.
Mexico's drug violence has rapidly escalated despite President Felipe Calderon's deployment of 45,000 soldiers across the country to fight cartels.
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Yep, all of the gun problems in the world are caused by the US. ::)
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Yep, all of the gun problems in the world are caused by the US. ::)
Duh! who do you think makes all those AK-47s? China? Get real!
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Yep, all of the gun problems in the world are caused by the US law-abiding american gun owners. ::)
There Haz, I fixed it for you. ;D
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Yep, all of the gun problems in the world are caused by the US.
I think that is a more accurate depiction of what the nuts over there on the left believe.
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The ATF estimates that 90 percent of weapons seized in Mexico come from sources within the United States. Mexico has long demanded that the United States do more to stop the flow of weapons south, and Obama has pledged to step up those efforts.
I guess we're sending guns south of the border while they're sending illegal Mexicans north of the border...............
I think we're getting the short end of the stick.
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Recently read that 17,000 Mexican army types have gone awol in the past yea, and most of them have taken there guns with them. Saw a picture of some of their army and all had Barrett M-82s. seing there m-16s and Barretts are made here I wonder why they are all traced back to the US.
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I take it they are no longer using G-3's.
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Yep, all of the gun problems in the world are caused by the US.
I think that is a more accurate depiction of what the nuts over there on the left believe.
Hmm, I thought from listening to my elementary student (and watching CNN) that all our problems are just caused by "us" as in if we just got rid of all the people, the world would be a great place...
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Hmm, I thought from listening to my elementary student (and watching CNN) that all our problems are just caused by "us" as in if we just got rid of all the people, the world would be a great place...
Good point, Washington, Chicago, and New York are cool places, it's just the people in them that suck.
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Don't you know that all of the FA guns are from the US... you know they were bought legally and taken down ::)
I would hazard to guess that the 90% of all guns are coming from the US and I would bet that 99.999% of those were stolen from thier legal owners.