Attorney General Holder has provided a little misdirection about Mexican gunrunning. Drug cartels have access to fully automatic military firearms and much more. Although it is essentially illegal for Mexicans to own guns, they all do. And, the lion’s share of its supply source may surprise you. It certainly isn’t justification for Holder’s comments in support of making certain guns in the U.S. illegal.
This from the NRA-ILA: On Wednesday, just over five weeks after Inauguration Day, Attorney General Eric Holder announced that the Obama Administration will seek to reinstate the expired federal “assault weapon” ban and impose additional restrictions.
“As President Obama indicated during the campaign, there are just a few gun-related changes that we would like to make, and among them would be to reinstitute the ban on the sale of assault weapons,” Holder said. Based on Holder’s testimony during his confirmation hearings before the Senate, those other “changes” presumably include prohibiting private transfers of firearms and banning most center-fire rifle ammunition as “armor-piercing.”
Holder said that new gun control laws are needed because in Mexico, a country with a history of corruption and disregard for individual rights, there’s a shooting war going on between drug gangs and government troops, and some of the gangsters’ guns have been illegally purchased in the United States.
