On Mar 10, 2011, at 10:16 AM, Raymond Kessler wrote: > http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/148441-nra-calls-for-expedited-hearin > gs-on-gun-trafficking > > I agree that there needs to be hearings and some valid research on this > topic. BATF's recent tracking study was seriously flawed.
David Codrea points out: > La Jeunesse, along with many mainstream reporters, is repeating the meme that > the purpose behind this operation was to track the guns to a “Mr. Big.” ... > You don’t let thousands of guns escape into the wild, totally losing control > of them, and knowing they will be found at crime scenes and traced back to > U.S. gun stores, and then think that following a trail between a small-level > buyer and a smaller-level user is going to lead you to the crime lord. La > Jeunesse’s analogy with drugs only works if you’re talking letting kilos of > drugs at a time escape your oversight and then hoping to pin the major player > by recovering small packets from the junkie on the other end of the trail. http://www.examiner.com/gun-rights-in-national/project-gunwalker-becoming-a-major-scandal -- Escape the Rat Race for Peace, Quiet, and Miles of Desert Beauty Take a Sanity Break at The Bunkhouse at Liberty Haven Ranch http://libertyhaven.com _______________________________________________ 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.
