ATF Gun Scandal

The House Oversight Committee hearings on Project Gunrunner conducted by Chairman Darrell Issa (R.-Calif.) have exposed a plan by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) to sell assault weapons to Mexican drug runners. This plan, “Fast and Furious,” has led to the killing of at least one federal border patrol agent, Brian Terry.

Rep. Elijah Cummings (D.-Md.) conducted a fake hearing last week and released a report calling for more gun laws. The U.S. government sold thousands of guns to Mexican drug rings, yet the solution offered by Cummings and other gun grabbers is more gun laws. Acting ATF Director Kenneth Melson, meanwhile, still has yet to be fired for overseeing Fast and Furious.

The Obama administration had planned to funnel guns to Mexican drug cartels, then prove that American-sold guns were being used in violent border incidents, and then use the evidence of the flow of guns from America to Mexico as a reason to change gun laws so that law-abiding citizens would have a harder time buying firearms.

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