Henry wrote:
> I've been leery, because the same claims usually talk about the fully
> automatic weapons, grenades and other quite strictly regulated weaponry.
>
> Then this evening I heard an NPR interview of a reporter Randal
> Archibold who had a news article on the front page of the New York
> Times - March 22:
> http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/23/us/23border.html?scp=3&sq=archibold&st=c
> se
>
> He said he was told by the ATF that 90% of those guns came from the
> US.
>From the report Henry provided a link to:
90 percent of the weapons that could be traced were
determined to have originated from various sources
within the U.S.
There is a huge difference here. 90% of the guns that were traced came from
the U.S., not 90% of the guns in use by the cartels. If the study
population is limited to a subset (i.e., just traced guns) then it is not
representative of the population. As usual, some select politicians have
used some linguistic slight of hand to distort the fundamental meaning of
the data.
Given the same document lists approximately 1,200 traces a year, the U.S. as
a primary source seems doubtful.
Yours in Liberty
Guy Smith
www.GunFacts.info
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