- The ATF is full of crap. Their numbers fall apart with the smallest bit of investigative reporting.
Actually, this looks to be a case of intentionally misquoting the ATF in order to lie about what they reported. According to La Jeunesse / Lott:
In 2007-2008, according to ATF Special Agent William Newell, Mexico submitted 11,000 guns to the ATF for tracing. Close to 6,000 were successfully traced — and of those, 90 percent — 5,114 to be exact, according to testimony in Congress by William Hoover — were found to have come from the U.S.
So the 90% figure is accurate as far as it goes – it’s just that the ATF was not reporting on all firearms used in Mexican crimes, they were reporting on only a fraction of those firearms. Anyone quoting this “90%” figure as Steve P or Hillary have is either intentionally lying about it or willfully maintaining ignorance about it, since the facts on this have been widely reported at this point.
What’s troubling about this is the magnitude of the lie these politicians are spewing, and the fact that it is so easily debunked. This indicates they’re convinced that the majority of the American public is either completely ignorant of the facts and/or can’t discover them on their own, or that they’re willing to go along with the lie. Either way, it’s a clear indication that gun-grabbing is once again on the agenda in D.C.
