The Other Hand Firearms Version

While Obama wants to be seen as taking a tough stance on guns by tightening rules on border states and legal gun buyers he is conveniently distracting from the biggest illegal gunrunning operation in years. The Obama Administration.

Gateway Pundit:

‘Fast and Furious’ Investigator Issa Responds to Team Obama’s New Gun Regulations (Video)
Posted by Jim Hoft on Wednesday, July 13, 2011, 11:46 AM

Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) and Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA) respond to the Obama Administration’s latest move to regulate guns that they were selling to cartels and foreign gang members in their “fast and furious” and gunwalking programs.

There is now evidence that the Obama Administration was looking for anecdotal cases to support their regulations on long gun multiple sales.

From the video: Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, discusses the Justice Department’s latest rule on reporting sales of certain semi-automatic weapons to federal authorities, as related to Operation Fast & Furious and changing gun laws.

Senator Charles Grassley released this statement yesterday:

Senator Chuck Grassley, Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, gave the following comment after it was announced by the Justice Department that Federal Firearms Licensees along the Southwest Border would be required to report multiple long gun sales. The Judiciary Committee has primary jurisdiction over policy related to the Justice Department. Grassley is also leading an investigation into the risky strategy employed by Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to allow guns to be sold to straw buyers and then watch the guns be transported to third parties without following the guns.

“We’ve learned from our investigation of Fast and Furious that reporting multiple long gun sales would do nothing to stop the flow of firearms to known straw purchasers because many Federal Firearms Dealers are already voluntarily reporting suspicious transactions. In fact, in just the documents we’ve obtained, we are aware of 150 multiple long guns sales associated with the ATF’s Fast and Furious case, and despite the fact that nearly all of these sales were reported in real time by cooperating gun dealers, the ATF watched the guns be transported from known straw purchasers to third parties and then let the guns walk away, often across the border. This makes it pretty clear that the problem isn’t lack of burdensome reporting requirements. The administration’s continued overreach with regulations continues, and is a distraction from its reckless policy to allow guns to walk into Mexico.”