Joe wrote: > All the grabbers (even Obama, last night) refer to a phoney statistic > generated from gun traces.
I have a FOIA request into the BATFE for the "90%" data that is routinely cited. I'll pass it along if/when it is delivered. > Just as the Tiahrt Amemdment was necassary to stop the phoney US "crime > gun" statistics, guns traced by the BATF for Mexican authorities are _not_ > a proper sample of guns used by the waring drug cartels. I noticed in online descriptions of the "90%" data that it included traces of firearms recovered in Mexico and interdicted shipments on this side of the border. That gives one pause. First, what is the ratio of traced guns in Mexico to interdicted firearms and how are we sure that all the interdicted guns were heading for Mexico or drug cartels? There is too much wiggle room in the data. > The US agreed to trace guns for Mexican authorites. But Mexican > authorites often know that a specific gun did not come through the US > (e.g. machine guns, models never imported in the US, etc). So those guns > don't get traced. Which I think the big issue. What is the ratio of firearms smuggled from the U.S. into Mexico vs. the number smuggled in from other countries vs. those that leak out of Mexican governmental agencies? Yours in Liberty Guy Smith www.GunFacts.info _______________________________________________ To post, send message to [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, or get password, see http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/firearmsregprof Please note that messages sent to this large list cannot be viewed as private. Anyone can subscribe to the list and read messages that are posted; people can read the Web archives; and list members can (rightly or wrongly) forward the messages to others.
