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Stephen Clark wrote:The Obama administration's plan to force new reporting requirements on thousands of gun dealers near the Mexico border is under fire from members of his own party.
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Maybe but most if not all the Dems that oppose it are from gun friendly states, Alaska and Montana.RPB wrote:Hmmm ... maybe some want to get re-elected and are using the reins on the runaway horse to try to achieve that goal.
Someone may correct me on this, but I believe that the 5,000 were sourced to the US in general, not specifically to US gun dealers. I'd expect that the vast majority of those were given to the Mexican military by the US government and then somehow found their way into the hands of the drug cartels.RPB wrote:I still bet that Mexican criminals can get them cheaper in Brazil. Venezuela, and Argentina without paying the US taxes and doing the paperwork here. I'm thinkin many of the 5,000 found were legally purchased and stolen in burglaries maybe.
A plight which wouldn't occur if they weren't invited guests, oh I mean here illegally.
You may be right, I hadn't thought of that.... wouldn't be the first time our Gov't supplies other countries with weapons which get used against us.Katygunnut wrote:Someone may correct me on this, but I believe that the 5,000 were sourced to the US in general, not specifically to US gun dealers. I'd expect that the vast majority of those were given to the Mexican military by the US government and then somehow found their way into the hands of the drug cartels.RPB wrote:I still bet that Mexican criminals can get them cheaper in Brazil. Venezuela, and Argentina without paying the US taxes and doing the paperwork here. I'm thinkin many of the 5,000 found were legally purchased and stolen in burglaries maybe.
A plight which wouldn't occur if they weren't invited guests, oh I mean here illegally.
The Mexican military doesn't use AR and AK -- they're HK. It's the Mexican police who use AR's -- and are the source for the drug cartels.Katygunnut wrote: I'd expect that the vast majority of those were given to the Mexican military by the US government and then somehow found their way into the hands of the drug cartels.
ca·hoots/kəˈho͞ots/woodsong wrote:The Mexican military doesn't use AR and AK -- they're HK. It's the Mexican police who use AR's -- and are part of, and in "cahoots with" the drug cartels.Katygunnut wrote: I'd expect that the vast majority of those were given to the Mexican military by the US government and then somehow found their way into the hands of the drug cartels.
I really wish a conservative publication with the resources to do this - are you listening Wall Street Journal? - would send reporters down to Mexico's southern border to prove that our assumptions are correct. Of course, then you still have to get all the other MSM sources to admit they were wrong and run WSJ's reporting. But hey, gotta start somewhere.RPB wrote:I still bet that Mexican criminals can get them cheaper in Brazil. Venezuela, and Argentina without paying the US taxes and doing the paperwork here.
I disagree.Katygunnut wrote: ... Personally, I would agree with the reporting requirement on 100 or more in one purchase, but that's as far as I would go.
PappaGun wrote:I disagree.Katygunnut wrote: ... Personally, I would agree with the reporting requirement on 100 or more in one purchase, but that's as far as I would go.
Today 100, then 31, then 30, then 10, then each and every stinking one.
Give em an in and you will regret it.
I don't think that "drug control" is just like gun control. I also do not think that all drugs should be illegal. The majority of drugs should remain illegal but not all. I will not go into which ones I think should be one what side but there are good reasons that most drugs are illegal and they should stay that way.Bullwhip wrote:More dead bodies just to keep people from choosing their recreational drugs.
Once upon a time "drug gangs" peddled liquor. They stopped shooting each other in 1933 when prohibition stopped. Other drug gangs still do it because other drugs are illegal.
"Drug control" is just like "gun control", it only stops the law abiding people, and the black market gets more expensive and more violent to supply the demand.