UPDATE-6:20 PM

I just had a very interesting phone conversation with a trusted source informing me all may not be as it appears in this case and the referenced news accounts and indictment may not fairly represent Mr. Shipley's actions.  If that is so, it is important to correct the record. I will be pursuing this and will post further information as and when it becomes appropriate.

See: Is FBI agent in Mexican gun case being persecuted?

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We've been following the Mexican "crime gun" story for some months, examining outright lies that have been told by those who oppose our right to keep and bear arms, parroted by a media sympathetic to that end, and exploited by those who would use the confusion to enact new restrictions. The genesis of this series was Attorney General Eric Holder using the situation as a pretext to ban semiautomatic firearms. Failing to muster the resolve to push that through (for now), the anti-gun cabal is focusing on other infringements.

We've been arguing the problem lies not with America's peaceable gun owners or with a need for burdening them with edicts, but with violent criminals--both in the drug cartels and their corrupt co-conspirators in government. Indeed, we've seen how the enforcement arm for the Gulf cartel, the Zetas, originated in the Mexican Army Special Forces.

We've seen this corruption saturate Mexican policing efforts. And we've seen how the corruption extends to "law enforcement" on this side of the border.

So why does this come as no surprise?

An F.B.I. agent in El Paso has been arrested and charged with dealing guns, some of which ended up being used in gunfights between the authorities and drug dealers in Mexico, law enforcement officials said.

A federal "Only One"?

Here's more:

He also bought at least 54 weapons, then sold 51 of them for more than $118,000...

[T]he government is also seeking forfeiture of 17 weapons, including two .50-caliber Barrett rifles, more than 2,800 rounds of .50-caliber ammunition, a silencer and $7,340 in cash.

Obviously there are serious violent crime problems on both sides of the border. Anyone who says the answer is to further infringe on your and my right to keep and bear arms is, at best, keeping us from addressing them. 

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Now here's an interesting development

Authorities in northern Mexico will give arms and training to members of an anti-crime group in a Mormon community after two local residents were killed by hitmen with ties to organized crime, residents said Friday.

Imagine that.

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