You read that headline right. ATF has been monitoring gun purchases in the US and allowing assault weapons to be smuggled into Mexico, supposedly so they could track them (inquiring minds want to know if this policy instead was due to massive corruption within ATF, what better way to smuggle in weapons than via [...]
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As defense giants like Boeing, Raytheon increasingly seek to peddle their wares to well-financed (sometimes by the U.S.) international customers, they have a surprising ally: the President. “Obama is much more favorably disposed to arms exports than any of the previous Democratic administrations,” says Loren Thompson, a veteran defense consultant. Or, as Jeff Abramson, deputy [...] DJ was right. He’s long maintained that while drug cartels may be getting some weapons from straw buyers in the US this couldn’t possibly account for the huge numbers of weapons they have nor are such weapons powerful enough. He recently commented on a post here about straw gun buyers being arrested in Arizona. [...] |  | ||||
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