The Mexican 'dog and pony show' on guns

May 13, 10:04 AMGun Rights ExaminerDavid Codrea

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Let's recap where we've been in our discussions of American guns and Mexican crime.

Attorney General Eric Holder fired the opening shot, claiming a renewed U.S. "assault weapons" ban was needed to fight Mexican cartel violence. We then saw how actual interdiction results were not bearing this out.

We saw what happened to the "90% of Mexican crime guns come from the U.S." meme when a penalty for perjury was introduced into the mix. Then we saw what happened to it when someone who knows how to count crunched the numbers.

We talked about U.S. government weapons exports. We saw the 90% lie--and that's what it's been exposed as--repeated in a DHS report to law enforcement.

And then we took a little warehouse tour, where we could see for ourselves the disconnect between what is reported and what is stored.

And now, thanks to Bill Conroy at The Narcosphere, we learn:

Experts suggest Mexican weapons-bust press conference may have been staged event...

One former ATF agent, who also asked that his name not be used, suggests one possibility: “This is all a dog and pony show.”

The former agent says it is not out of the realm of possibility that the Mexican government staged the gun bust, or at least hyped the press conference, using previously seized weapons in order to bolster its chances of securing additional aid from the U.S. government to help continue its escalation of the drug war. The former agent adds that he is suspicious of all the coincidences surrounding the weapons seizure — including the fact that the guns were found by accident during a routine patrol, at least one of the guns was a replica, and one of the gun platforms was nothing more than an aluminum prop.

“It’s happened before,” the former agent says. “You bring in some dope or guns from the [police] warehouse as props. It’s a big game.”

"A big game."

One where the stakes could not be higher. And one where our opponents are professional hustlers.

No wonder they want to cheat us out of our guns.

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Mark your calendars...

...for next year. And you have plenty of time to make our arrangements to participate.

In what? A Second Amendment march in 2010.

We will accomplish our mission by a peaceful march in Washington DC, the United States Capitol, supported by satellite marches to State Capitols and smaller cities all across America.

You have almost a year to prepare, so why not make the decision now this is something you want to do?

Cleveland Gun Rights Examiner Daniel White has more.