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“These illegal purchases,” ATF’s William Newell told Congress last month, are “a key source and supply of firearms for drug traffickers.”
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Really. Then where are the arrests? NICS is up and running last time I checked. You have to have an ID (which means an address, a phone, etc,) a clear record, and in many states, even a waiting period.
This doesn't even begin to pass the smell test.
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The best way to improve enforcement of existing gun laws, said one veteran ATF agent, is to put more badges on the street.
“Give us more people to inspect gun dealers, looking for straw buyers, in the states where the guns smuggled into Mexico are coming from,” he says.
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So, among other things, it's a money grab for the agency.
If we DID have the resources for more agents, why in the dickens would we focus those resources on contraband LEAVING the country, when we haven't made the slightest dent in contraband ENTERING the country.
So how about we first concern ourselves with the ability of terrorists to bring weapons IN?
The ability of this administration and these agencies to turn logic and common sense on it's head seems to have no bounds.