by Doug Book
When Jim and Sarah Brady met with Barack Obama on the 30th anniversary of the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan, they asked the president how he would help to advance their Handgun Control, Inc. (now the Brady Campaign) gun control/gun confiscation agenda. Obama’s response: “I just want you to know that we are working on it. We have to go through a few processes, but under the radar.”
In the seven months since that meeting, many have suggested Obama’s comment was a dark reference to the criminal Operation Fast and Furious. After all, without the courage of ATF whistleblowers, the murderous and unconstitutional scheme would have probably remained “under the radar” to this day.
And now some very revealing information has been compiled by blogger Bob Owens to lend further credence to the belief that Fast and Furious had nothing to do with taking down Mexican drug cartels and everything to do with subverting the Second Amendment rights of the American people.
Over the years, a great deal has been learned of the firearm preferences of drug gangs. And strangely enough, a scant few of the weapons purchased and “walked” south of the border by Fast and Furious operatives actually match the weapons-of-choice demands of Mexican cartels, the guns intended recipients.
But they do coincide quite nicely with the types of weapons whose availability American gun grabbers like Barack Obama have been most interested in limiting or doing away with altogether.
The majority of weapons transferred under Fast and Furious have been semi-automatic rifles of the AK and AR types with a few .50 caliber Barrett (BMG) rifles and FN (Five-SeveN) pistols thrown in for good measure.
More than 2000 of these weapons–mainly the AK and AR rifle variants–were walked across the Mexican border during the Operation.
Yet as popular as these AK and AR rifles are to gun buyers in the United States, Mexican gangs have virtually no interest in them at all. Fully automatic or selective-fire AK rifles are available to cartels on the black market for about $100, far less than the purchase price of the semi-auto version in U.S. gun stores.
As for the AR models, “cartels raid armories and buy selective-fire M-16 and M-4 rifles from deserting or corrupt Mexican military members for far less than the semi-auto rifles finding their way to cartels with federal government assistance…”
The .50 caliber rifle, though certainly powerful is also heavy, clumsy and often just a single shot weapon. The big gun may enjoy a certain status among gang members, but daily use would be difficult at best.
So why did Operation Fast and Furious offer drug gangs so many firearms they did not want or need? Because these are the weapons marked for extinction by American gun grabbers throughout the nation.
From championing the meaningless and ineffective “assault weapons ban” which forbade the sale of AK and AR type rifles to claiming that the .50 BMG could bring down a speeding jet, groups from the Brady Bunch to the far-Left, Obama-directed Joyce Foundation have worked to criminalize public ownership of these weapons.
And what better way to advance their agenda than to suddenly have hundreds, perhaps thousands of these guns appear at murder scenes throughout two countries?
By some estimates as many as 300 people have been killed in order that the gun-banning dreams of the Left might be realized. Never has an administration engaged in a more thoroughly corrupt undertaking. Prison is far too good for this unholy group.
To contact your Congressional representative, use this link:
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To read more, use these links:
http://sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com/2011/10/ssi-exclusive-prior-knowledge-atf-knew.html
http://www.coachisright.com/origins-of-fast-and-furious-accidentally-revealed-by-white-house/
http://www.coachisright.com/armed-citizens-descend-on-gun-banning-new-mexico-mayor/
This article originally appeared on CoachIsRight.com and is reprinted with permission.
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An excellent and informative article exhibiting thorough journalistic
research. Darrel Issa and his committee who will, again be confronting
Eric Holder must read this!!
Obama/Soetoro must be removed immediately. 25th amendment section 4
Fast and Furious is just one of many reasons Obama and his administration must be stopped.
He has declared himself to be Judge, Jury and Executioner. Rules and Law be dammed! Everything Un-American. INSANITY! He may be clinically insane, nobody knows about his mental health because he has been hiding and lying and buying silence from congress and the courts since his election. WHERES THE PROOF that he is an American and not an enemy usurper…..Too many violations of the American Constitution….This can’t go on. Fast and Furious is enough alone to call for impeachment and render him powerless before he completely destroys the nation and the rule of law.
Hillary is at the center of it:
http://www.examiner.com/conservative-in-national/hillary-s-smoking-gun-the-next-segment-state-department-s-role-gunwalker
http://www.examiner.com/conservative-in-national/breaking-new-evidence-show-hillary-a-mastermind-behind-gunwalker#ixzz1aR1fVBFw
Finally,the government has figured out what we have known for quite some time.Now the question is,”will they prosecute these people as they would the average American or just let them step down & go unpunished?”We have to demand proper justice.All have to have High Crime & Treason charges brought against them.DEMAND IT PEOPLE, DEMAND IT!! THIS IS A CRIME AGAINST THE AMERICAN PEOPLE & OUR RIGHTS TO KEEP & BEAR ARMS. THEY HAVE MURDERED AMERICANS & PEOPLE IN MEXICO. A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY.THEY MUST NOT BE ALLOWED TO GET AWAY WITH THIS INSANE SCHEME.
I Agree’ I just wrote my congressman and demanded they all be held accountable for the crimes against us citizens’ OBAMA included’
Very interesting, must pass this on!
This is old NEWS, I’ve been saying this since ‘Operation Fast and Furious’ was first brought to the public’s attention. Thank GOD for true American Patriots, who became whistle blowers and informed people who could bring this wrong doing, that was being ordered by their superiors, to the attention of the American people. Since just about all the documents that Issa’s investigative committee has subpoenaed from the ATF and DOJ, has been redacted to the extent that whole pages of the huge majority of these documents have been completely blackened out, making one question just what it is that the ATF and DOJ has to keep secret from members of Congress, other than their own wrong doing, especially these agencies that have nothing to do with national security, but everything to do with violating and/or enforcing our laws that are enacted by these Congressmen. Since Eric Holder and the DOJ is actively blocking all attempts of this Congressional committee’s attempts to learn the truth about ‘Operation Fast and Furious’, it’s time for a Special Prosecutor to be appointed in order to get to that truth, with federal judges deciding what should be redacted for whatever reason Eric Holder, the DOJ, and the ATF may have for doing so, for the benefit of the American people in order to assist them in making choices of whom they should elect to run our government, for those in charge now seem to be bigger crooks than those they are suppose to incarcerate.
this makes me wonder, how exactly did the murder of a US Officer go down ?, I don’t recall the details from the news, but I’m wondering why weapons were found there, and from this gun running operation no less, according to this article it makes perfect sense to leave them behind, but by cartels? it wouldn’t be in their interests to do so, I’ve never heard them doing this before, were the weapons a plant ? but wasn’t the officer killed with one of them ? which makes me question who actually did the shooting, and left the weapons to be found. Perhaps they intended to shoot the first US citizen they came across, which was unfortunate for the officer, but this still stinks , this is like a closed loop you cant get beyond the weapons being left behind, to and for the expressed purpose to serve the original intent of instigating illegal gun running charges to ban these firearms from sale. And if so this is murder which involves our Government and DOJ.
Guns are part of our history.
Where did you get the quote: Obama’s response: “I just want you to know that we are working on it. We have to go through a few processes, but under the radar.” ???????
Source please.