Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Maryland
Democrat US representative from Maryland, Elijah Cummings, wants stricter gun laws. His reason? Using a report from the US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE) Cummings "quoted law enforcement officers on how lax or nonexistent laws and regulations on so-called 'straw' purchases of illegal weapons, firearms trafficking and monitoring of the sales of assault rifles and other long guns contributed to the thriving trafficking of illegal weapons to Mexico." (CNN)
Tougher gun laws are always good, right? And the BATFE report can be trusted, right?
Except that the BATFE program, called Operation Fast and Furious, broke current US and international laws in order to traffic illegal guns to Mexican drug cartels. This is the same Operation Fast and Furious, which released the guns that got border agent Brian Terry killed. (CBS) This is the same Operations Fast and Furious where federal agents were ordered to intentionally let guns "walk" across the border into the hands of Mexican drug cartels. (CBS) This is the same Operation Fast and Furious for which the BATFE acting director is expected to resign and threatens to unseat US Attorney General Eric Holder. (CNN)
The entire BATFE operation resulted in thousands of guns illegally crossing the border. The guns weren't sold by law-abiding firearms dealers. They weren't sold at gun shows. They weren't withheld from known "straw" buyers. They were intentionally and illegally sold by US government officials.
And now Democrat Elijah Cummings thinks we need tougher gun laws? The ideology behind the thought boggles the mind.
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