Rep. Cummings’ Gunwalker Report Neglects To Mention … Gunwalker
“Military-Grade”
The phrase used repeatedly in the report to describe semi-automatic (one shot per trigger pull) firearms is “military-grade.” It is a phrase that has no read-world meaning, yet is used by the committee report nine times in 28 pages.
“Military-grade” is made-up; marketing-speak. It is meant to convey that something is tough enough for military use. Literally anything can and is deemed “military-grade” without actually having a military function, like iPhone cases or water guns.
(Seriously, click those links.)
The “90 Percent Lie.” Again.
Readers who have been following the Gunwalker scandal know that Obama administration officials employ the “90 percent lie,” an oft-repeated claim that implies 90 percent of the firearms used in cartel violence come from the United States. It is a demonstrable fabrication based upon misrepresenting gun tracing statistics.
A recent (Democrat-issued) report has revised the 90 percent lie down to a 70 percent lie, but the dishonest technique remains the same, and the figure is still far from the truth.
Of any stockpile of cartel weapons confiscated by Mexican authorities — let’s say 100 weapons — the Obama administration’s 90 percent lie would have you believe that 90 of them came form U.S. gun shops. In reality: of any 100 guns recovered by Mexican authorities, only 20 had any markings on them suggesting they were made in or imported through the United States. The other 80 guns come from the overseas black market, Central and South American regimes with poor munitions control, and corrupt officials within the Mexican government itself.
The 20 guns that looked like they were probably from the U.S.? They get turned over to the ATF for tracing. Of those 20, the ATF is able to confirm 18 of them were indeed from the United States.
That’s 18 out of 100, not 18 out of 20.
Further, of the 18 guns successfully traced, just under 8 actually came from gun shops, and the average age of each weapon was ten years old.
“Outgunned: Law Enforcement Agents Warn Congress They Lack Adequate Tools to Counter Illegal Firearms Trafficking” is a purely political document created to advance a dishonest gun control agenda, even in the face of 152+ deaths caused by this same sort of duplicity.
Rep. Elijah Cummings should be ashamed to have issued this report, and he should be pressed to answer for it.
If some of these ATF supervisors and managers don’t go to prison there is no justice.
Maybe I’m been beating this drum to tedium, but prosecutions of all the Gunwalker criminals in 2013 should be a criterion for picking the Republican presidential nominee. Which candidates or possible candidates have the testicles to do it? Yeah, trick question.
Probably the ones with ovaries. If you hadn’t noticed, men don’t have testicles anymore.
Here here some of us do, but we are labeled “Red Necks” or “neanderthals” by those who don’t still have their original equipment, and those who wish that they “had a set” of their own.
From what I deduce from the article is that most of Mexico’s illegal gun problems can be traced to the U.S. government smuggling guns into Mexico under BATFE control. Rather than increase the penalties for strawman purchases, just send the BATFE agents that forced the shop owners to make strawman sales to prison. And of that 18 of 100 guns found to be from the U.S., how many can be traced back to BATFE operations?
this should be a report of Gunrunner, not Mexico.
Like one of my shirts claims. Alcohol,Tobacco and Firearms should be a convenience store, not a government agency. There will be no justice until we have a real AG. That’s not happening anytime soon.
Cummins was the chair of the committee investigating Gunrunner until Nov.2010. Did he know about this and not investigate?
Gladius what else could you expect from a SLIMEBALL like cummings??
Just look at how this administration acts in imperial fashion. See how the Dems jammed ObamaCare down our throats. See how the Left vilifies the Tea Party and any opposition. See how hostile police are to citizens who legally carry guns. See how the Left views those “bitterly cling to their guns and Bibles”. Look at the rage, the violence, and the hate directed at Walker and Prosser in WI. Look at what they did to Glenn Beck.
If they manage to disarm us, do you think for a second that millions of us won’t get killed in a pogrom, starting with the disarming process? History shows this time and again. They hate us. They rage at us. When they can get away with it, they use violence against us. They would kill us if they could. They would. If you think otherwise, you are a fool, a dead man walking.
AMEN to that Marc. and there are so many IDIOTS who go right along with the IDIOT in cheif!!
Cummings isn’t worthy of selling salted peanuts outside a ballpark, let alone conducting the business of the American people. The closest White guy to be put in a position close to this is the idiot, Al Franken.
It has been intimated that the whole gun runner thing is a convoluted plot to advance gun control. Apparently this is true, and not the mutterings of cranks. Cummings has made this clear by his words and actions.
To the writer who commented that MOST of the illegal guns in Mexico came from the U.S. under ATF, do some more research. They come from all over the world, and I have a feeling what they got from us is minimal. The Cartels are joining with the Far East to drop the cost of meth, and are the leading distributors of that poison today.
Obama stood before Congress with President Calderon and blamed US for the problems in Mexico.
Ranchers in Arizona are finding prayer rugs and Korans on their property these days along with the usual garbage left by illegal border crossers, and Napalitano tells us the border is safer than ever… DHS dumped millions of dollars worth of improvements into the border all right, along the Canadian line, at crossings that see less than twenty cars a day. How conveniant.
They are leaving the Mexican side open for a reason; what that is only they know for sure, and the rest of us can only speculate. I really don’t like what I come up with.
Who really cares what this gerrymandered, affirmative action idiot has to say? Hey, Dems, it’s over for you. The people have had enough.
I dont know rjh. there are far too many IDIOTS voting. they proved it in 08.
You’ve got a point.
let’s face it. we have a commie in the w.h., a thug for a.g., and a slew of czars and other assorted trash that couldn’t run a lemonade stand. that’s what we get for listening to commies telling us what we do wrong all the time.
they want our guns. they can’t pull off their long planned takeover with real Americans bearing arms. they also need to control all communications outlets. that is being done day by day. why would an honest president need to be able to completely and instantly shut down the internet? he wouldn’t. but he will need to stop real American patriots from being able to resist his great scheme.
the pretender’s time is drawing near. he must act with more and more haste as more and more of this administration’s crimes come to light, like this gunwalker mess. the plan seems to have something to do with our open sore, the southern border. no telling how many wmd’s have already crossed over, been planted, and are ready to go.
i fear for those who keep making excuses, and saying it could not happen here. if you want to get just a whiff of what is to come go to some of the chicago based web sites and read how it feels to be in a commie state with no protection against the animals that will try to destroy us. and try to keep your powder dry.
The 12 Gauge pump-action shotgun I use for hunting and trap shooting could be considered “Military Grade.”
These people are trying to wallpaper over the holes they made in the walls of their argument. It may look OK to the untrained eye, but to those of us who know anything about the subject, this is terrible behavior.
I haven’t voted for Cummings in several elections. Like too many career politicians, he has grown a little too fond of the office. His competition was seriously outgunned in the last election. But it won’t stay that way forever.
This Congresscritter’s district was reinstated after the census of 1950 after having been abolished in 1840. It has never, repeat never, elected a Republican Congressman and hasn’t elected a white one since 1969. The incumbent’s predecessor was Crazy Mfume, who resigned to become President of the NAACP. It is 60% black and 67% white collar, so you can bet it’s populated by vast numbers of government employees. Cummings runs no risk whatsoever of being voted out of office, no more than Harlem’s Charles Rangel.
Keep telling your representative, senators, and yes, the White House you want a full, expeditious investigation and a special prosecutor if (nudge, nudge) high ranking DOJ members were involved.
Where is the Republican Congressman who will stand up with the minority report and tell the world about the 150 dead Mexican policemen and two dead US lawmen, murdered with ATF approved illegal weapons sales.
I wonder if Bloomberg is working with the ATF on a domestic equivelent.
davod it sure looks to me as if bloomburg is working hand in glove with the dissarm America crowd.I wouldn’t trust either one of them in a sh+t house with a muzzle on,
Clearly you are not up to speed on this topic.
Darrell Issa, Republican, is the Chairman of this committee. He is a bulldog. He has told Eric Holder to his face “I’m coming after YOU.”
Cummings silly report means very little and was part of an unofficial hearing last week. Don’t worry, heads are gonna roll over this.
You can see hours of the investigation on UTube.
Well, for all of this, did you watch any of C-SPAN’s entertainment of E. Cummings asking questions of the financial personalities, and they, trying to maintain politeness and a straight face—in but a slight understanding, often, he appeared rather pathetic.
I did occasionally wonder about how to explain the thing: “He’s so lacking in intelligence, may as well make him a congressman.”; or: “He’s too lacking in intelligence to be a congressman.”, but in all, none of that ever turning out but to a loose end, . . . and tragic, . . .
And then reminiscent of his buddy, down in Georgia, Hank Johnson, who would have had us to see an undersea mountains going upside down, or, maybe the tops of such mountains were to be unconnected to the earth—I mean, I suppose them as buddies, I don’t know—both democrats, and both they appear to be on the same wave-length, . . . cleaning up on a lotta cash while crashing America, . . .
Could we please have a link/reference for the American-guns-in-Mexico calculation at the end of the article? Thanks!
Our hero Congressman Elijha Cummings does drive a really cool new Mercedes 450 SL. This is Baltimore we are talking about here. We need to have our saviors of the downtrodden, well heeled. Democrats from the hood drive social justice, with four doors and a set of mags.
As I said before, when this is over and done with the only people that will be punished will be the whistle blowers. Remember government is to big to fail.
Like I’ve been saying all along, “Gunwalker” is this administrations attempt at “under the radar” gun control. If this travesty is vigorously investigated (as it should be) the DOJ, DHS and White House will be shown to have instigated this vile program in the hopes of turning public opinion against guns and the Second Amendment, giving these far left democrats an opening to pursue a prohibitive gun control agenda, which is what they’ve wanted all along but have been stymied by the lack of public support and the latest pro Second Amendment rulings of our judiciary. It’s pretty obvious if you look back at Obama’s rhetoric about all the domestic guns that were falling into the hands of Mexican cartels, it was a complete fabrication that they attempted to turn into a reality to bolster their anti-gun position. Now people are dead on both sides of the border from this malfeasance and heads should roll all the way to the top. Watergate has nothing on this massive scandal.
Congressman Cummings is a master politician; he has the skill to deftly change the subject from one he opposes to one he likes. Depending on one’s politics, this is either good or bad; his report is here:
http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/investigative/documents/firearms_report_063011.pdf
The subject of the majority’s hearing was to overview an ATF performance in which government agents were ordered by their superiors to permit vehicles loaded with straw purchased firearms to drive from the US into Mexico. If true, this is a serious crime, and an abject betrayal of their sworn duty. Cummings report ignores this. He focused on how can Congress help ATF do a better job; he presumes they are not criminals.
Having read his report, I hold that Congress should be stripped of word processors. The 26 page report could be greatly improved by editing repetitious entries, and reduced to three pages. Congressional scholarship produces tripe.
Since our government agency appears not to obey our current laws, perhaps one more might be in order:ATG must cling to their guns and bibles. Apparently, at some very high level, their management is devoid of competency and/or ethics.
The most important thing that should have been in the report was that murder weapons were provided to narco terrorists by the U.S. government. Guns that were used to murder a large number of innocents. Ignoring this horrifying fact makes a powerful statement, that it is highly acceptable for the U.S. government to provide barbaric drug cartels with weapons to murder innocents. Mexicans and Americans have good reason to fear. Who can be safe from a government that regards human life as worthless?
How very close we are to losing our freedom.