Documents obtained by CBS News show that the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) discussed using their covert operation “Fast and Furious” to argue for controversial new rules about gun sales.
PICTURES: ATF “Gunwalking” scandal timeline
In Fast and Furious, ATF secretly encouraged gun dealers to sell to suspected traffickers for Mexican drug cartels to go after the “big fish.” But ATF whistleblowers told CBS News and Congress it was a dangerous practice called “gunwalking,” and it put thousands of weapons on the street. Many were used in violent crimes in Mexico. Two were found at the murder scene of a U.S. Border Patrol agent.
ATF officials didn’t intend to publicly disclose their own role in letting Mexican cartels obtain the weapons, but emails show they discussed using the sales, including sales encouraged by ATF, to justify a new gun regulation called “Demand Letter 3”. (Read more)
However, if pot users are also Mexican drug lords, then they’re not only allowed to carry guns, they are armed at U.S. taxpayer expense.
The federal government, notably under the current administration, continues to paint itself into a corner politically speaking regarding Mr. Obama’s pre-election promises to ‘fix the problem with medical marijuana’.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) issued a memorandum on September 21 to all gun dealers in the United States for the expressed purpose of informing them that they MUST discriminate against lawful medical cannabis patients and DENY them their Second Amendment right to buy and possess a firearm for hunting and/or personal protection. (Read more)
A lot of problems in both Russia and Ukraine could be solved if everybody owned a gun. I hate that in a society where everybody is helpless, it is the criminals who become the capable citizens — rich, hip, cool.
Think about how this story would turn out if when Igor and Big Igor started robbing people, one of their victims shot one of them in face. Suddenly Igor, Big Igor and Sasha wouldn’t be so awesome anymore.
Let the good guys be the cool people. Legalize self defense. Let them own guns.
CANTON, Ohio -— Video of a Canton police officer angrily confronting a motorist legally carrying a concealed weapon has gone viral on the internet.
The target of that confrontation, William Bartlett, told Fox 8 on Tuesday that his rights were violated.
Bartlett has a permit to carry a concealed weapon and said he tried to tell the officer that he had a gun when he was pulled over on in the early morning hours of June 8th in a high crime area.
But the 52-year-old Brewster man said the officer would not let him talk.
Bartlett told Fox 8, “Would you have yelled ‘I have a gun?’. I just kept my mouth shut, I kept my hands on the wheel like I had been instructed to, I had my CCW in hand, I tried to hand it to him and he wanted no part of it.”
Bartlett said Patrolman Daniel Harless flew into a rage a short time later when he revealed he was carrying a gun.
“I thought I was in trouble, deep trouble, more than just going to jail trouble”, said Bartlett.
He said Officer Harless then began to threaten his life.
“If you had a man threatening to execute you, what would you think? That’s where I’ll leave it at that,” said Bartlett.
The posting of the video on the web has given Canton a undeserved bad name, according to City Council President Allen Schulman.
Schulman told Fox 8, “We’ve received hundreds of e-mails, all from out of town, not only out of town but out of state, Texas, Arizona, places that seem to love people carrying concealed weapons.”
Schulman said the case illustrates the inherent dangers of Ohio’s concealed weapon law, which he calls, “crazy”.
“I believe in people’s right to bear arms, but I believe in rational, reasonable gun laws, and these concealed weapons are going to create a lot of problems”, said Schulman. “And my biggest concern is, it’s going to end up killing people.”
Patrolman Harless was placed on administrative leave after the incident, and on Monday, went on sick leave.
William Bartlett was charged with carrying a concealed weapon and says he is getting support from all over the country.
“They should have strong feelings, it’s their right being violated as well as mine”, said Bartlett. “If it happened to me, it could happen to someone else.”
Here’s an interview with the man who said “I don’t want to abolish government, I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it to the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.”
Personally, I think he’s an inside-the-beltway pseudo libertarian. He should watch the Hoppe Video I recently posted, The Impossibility of Limited Government.
Documents obtained by CBS News show that the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) discussed using their covert operation “Fast and Furious” to argue for controversial new rules about gun sales.
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