{"id":25545,"date":"2011-07-01T10:58:51","date_gmt":"2011-07-01T14:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=25545"},"modified":"2011-07-01T11:17:07","modified_gmt":"2011-07-01T15:17:07","slug":"cummings-gun-laws-hinder-batfes-border-ops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=25545","title":{"rendered":"Cummings: Gun laws hinder BATFE’s border ops"},"content":{"rendered":"

Elijah Cummings, a Democrat representative from Maryland – the State that only issues Concealed Carry Weapons licenses when you can prove that you’re in imminent danger – told a forum that the real problem with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is not that they supplied Mexican cartels with thousands of weapons to fight the Mexican government, it’s that US gun laws are too lax<\/a>;<\/p>\n

Michael Bouchard, a retired ATF assistant director, said one of the ways his former agency strives to prevent crimes is by “disrupting and dismantling large and small firearms trafficking schemes, which put guns into the hands of violent criminals.”<\/p>\n

“Unfortunately, criminals bent on acquiring guns can be very clever in the methods that they use to circumvent the law and avoid detection,” he said. “ATF and law enforcement must continually adjust to the criminal’s changing tactics and develop new strategies and tactics of their own.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Apparently, criminals are so clever that they can stare at ATF agents and control their minds to let them walk with high powered weapons right into Mexico from US gun stores without being accosted. How do we fight that kind of cleverness?<\/p>\n

Brady Campaign President Paul Helmke blamed America’s gun laws on the illegal flow of U.S. guns into Mexico.<\/p>\n

“Yet as the six-month anniversary of Tucson approaches, we have still seen no change in our nation’s weak or non-existent gun laws,” he said. “We still have no federal law criminalizing gun trafficking, banning assault weapons and magazines or closing the loopholes in our Brady Background Check system that help arm dangerous killers and supply gun traffickers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yes, we should ban scary-looking weapons so that the BATFE isn’t tempted to let gun smugglers abscond to Mexico with their ill-gotten booty. That makes perfect sense.<\/p>\n

Actually it proves more what the NRA and gun owners across the country have been saying – the whole problem isn’t the number and volume of laws, it’s law enforcement’s unwillingness to enforce laws. Smuggling weapons to Mexico is already illegal.<\/p>\n

I mean BATFE had an opportunity to stop thousands of weapons from going to the cartels and they preferred to look the other way under the guise of an “investigation”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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