Can anyone see the irony here? A Federal Judge just upheld a Justice Department request that any gun stores making multi-gun sales to buyers report those buys.
The irony – The failed Fast & Furious debacle actually drove just such sales with a more nefarious intention – to force multiple buys knowing the guns were going straight into the hands of criminals. The gun store owners and legal buyers are the victims of this law. Those who died at the hands of the criminals who bought and used the guns in crimes are victims of Holders and Obamas failed policy of which neither of them will be accountable for.
They have now gone so low as to play the race card rather than face the music of their own law breaking ways. See this Fox News.com article for a full story:
A federal judge has dismissed a firearms industry association’s lawsuit seeking to block the Obama administration from requiring gun store owners in Southwest border states to report when customers buy multiple high-powered rifles.
U.S. District Judge Rosemary M. Collyer said the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives properly limited its requirement to purchasers of two or more semi-automatic rifles greater than .22 caliber within five days in the states of California, Arizona, New Mexico or Texas. “Congress has effected a delicate balance between ATF’s regulation of firearms and the right to privacy held by lawful firearms owners,” Collyer wrote. The ATF’s reporting requirement “did not disturb that balance.”
Gun dealers opposed the requirements, arguing they would effectively require a national registration of gun sales, which they said the ATF did not have the authorization to do. Additionally, the gun industry saw the rules as being a burden to law-abiding retailers and would not have any significant effect on clamping down on the flow of weapons to Mexican drug cartels.
The requirement was imposed after ATF acknowledged during congressional hearings it made mistakes in Operation Fast and Furious, a Phoenix-area investigation designed to catch weapons-trafficking kingpins. Agents lost track of many weapons they were trying to track to smuggling ringleaders, and some guns ended up at crime scenes in Mexico and the U.S.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/01/13/federal-judge-upholds-reporting-requirement-for-gun-stores/#ixzz1jRGUID7J
