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Gun makers to ask US Supreme Court to bar Mexico's lawsuit

U.S. gun manufacturers plan to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to hear their bid to escape Mexico's $10 billion lawsuit seeking to hold them responsible for facilitating the trafficking of weapons to drug cartels across the U.S.-Mexico border. The planned appeal was disclosed during a virtual court...

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Gun makers to ask US Supreme Court to bar Mexico's lawsuit​

Nate Raymond
Fri, February 9, 2024 at 10:04 AM PST·2 min read
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By Nate Raymond

BOSTON (Reuters) - U.S. gun manufacturers plan to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to hear their bid to escape Mexico's $10 billion lawsuit seeking to hold them responsible for facilitating the trafficking of weapons to drug cartels across the U.S.-Mexico border.

The planned appeal was disclosed during a virtual court hearing on Friday by a lawyer for Smith & Wesson Brands after the Boston-based 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last month overturned a judge's decision dismissing the case.

Mexico alleges in the lawsuit, filed in 2021, that the companies undermined its strict gun laws by designing, marketing and distributing military-style assault weapons in ways they knew would arm drug cartels, fueling murders, extortions and kidnappings in the country.

Mexico says over 500,000 guns are trafficked annually from the U.S. into Mexico, of which more than 68% are made by the eight companies it sued, which also include Sturm, Ruger & Co, Beretta USA, Barrett Firearms Manufacturing, Colt's Manufacturing Co and Glock Inc.

Mexico said the smuggling has contributed to high rates of gun-related deaths, declining investment and economic activity and a need for it to spend more on law enforcement and public safety.

The companies deny wrongdoing.

Andrew Lelling, Smith & Wesson's lawyer, said at Friday's hearing there was a "reasonably good chance" the Supreme Court would agree to hear its appeal, and he asked U.S. District Judge Dennis Saylor to put the case on hold until the justices act on the petition.

He said the appeal would focus on whether Mexico's claims are barred by a federal law, the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA), which gives gun manufacturers broad protection from lawsuits over the misuse of their products.

"This case involves a statute that is specifically designed to allow this specific set of defendants to avoid litigation costs if the case at issue falls within ambit of statute," he said. "That very question is still the one at issue."

The 1st Circuit ruled on Jan. 22 that while PLCAA can be applied to lawsuits by foreign governments, Mexico's lawsuit "plausibly alleges a type of claim that is statutorily exempt from the PLCAA's general prohibition."

The court said that was because the law was only designed to protect lawful firearms-related commerce, yet Mexico had accused the companies of aiding and abetting illegal gun sales by facilitating the trafficking of firearms into the country.

Saylor on Friday said he had "some reservations" about putting the case fully on hold pending an appeal to the Supreme Court. He made no ruling, though, and said he would decide what to do at a March 12 hearing.

Mexico's U.S. lawyer, Steve Shadowen, said it was "eager to get started on merits of the case just as soon as we properly can."

(Reporting by Nate Raymond in Boston, Editing by Alexia Garamfalvi and Alistair Bell)

 

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QUESTIONS I HAVE.
Jeffrey Epstein, ZORRO ranch in New Mexico was broken into, undisclosed number of firearms were stolen.

Traffickers, in general have their hand in any and every item can be trafficked. Weapons are extremely profitable. Just ask Victor Bout who trafficked arms into conflict zones, often paid by their governments.

Freed Russian Arms Dealer Viktor Bout Is a “Personified Weapon of Mass Destruction”

Brittney Griner’s release from Russia has brought renewed attention to the notorious Russian arms dealer whom the U.S. exchanged for the basketball star in a prisoner swap. Viktor Bout, the former Soviet military officer who became known as the “Merchant of Death,” was serving a 25-year prison...

www.democracynow.org

Before he was sentenced in 2012, Viktor Bout spoke to the Voice of Russia and said arms suppliers in the U.S. should be in prison, too.

VIKTOR BOUT: I am innocent. I don’t commit any crime. There is no crime to sit and talk. If you’re going to apply the same standards to me, then you’re going to, you know, jail all those arms dealers in America who are selling the arms and ending up killing Americans. They are involved even more than me.

AMY GOODMAN: That was over a decade ago, in 2012, when ViKtor Bout was sentenced. He has spent 11 years so far in jail, before being traded for Brittney Griner back to Russia.

I recall the photo of David Rockefeller awarding Carlos Arredondo the framed map of AZTLAN at the Boston Bombing, symbolically returning AZTLAN to the Mexicans.

What if Epstein was who was arming AZTLANdians and using Zorro Ranch as a base?

Eric Holder and Obama's Operation Fast and Furious gunwalking reasoning of tracing arms trafficked had never made any real sense.



https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-21-322

Firearms Trafficking: U.S. Efforts to Disrupt Gun Smuggling into Mexico Would Benefit from Additional Data and Analysis​

GAO-21-322 Published: Feb 22, 2021. Publicly Released: Mar 24, 2021.

Fast Facts​

Para la versión de esta página en español, ver a GAO-21-336.
Gun smuggling over the U.S.-Mexican border helps the illegal drug trade and has links to organized crime. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives has gathered data on guns recovered in Mexico and traced many of them to U.S. sources.
But ATF's data only shows part of the picture—for example, data reported by the Mexican Attorney General may not include guns recovered by other Mexican agencies. Also, more analysis—e.g., U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement analysis of data on U.S.-sourced guns seized in Mexico—could improve understanding of sources and smuggling routes.
Our recommendations address these issues and more.
Example of a Firearm Recovered in Mexico

Highlights​

Para la versión de esta página en español, ver a GAO-21-336.

What GAO Found​

Trafficking of U.S.-sourced firearms into Mexico is a national security threat, as it facilitates the illegal drug trade and has been linked to organized crime. The Department of Justice's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) found that 70 percent of firearms reported to have been recovered in Mexico from 2014 through 2018 and submitted for tracing were U.S. sourced. However, ATF does not receive complete data about thousands of firearms, such as those recovered by Mexican states, because only Mexico's federal Attorney General's office submits trace requests to ATF. In addition, the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has identified smuggling trends by analyzing DHS data on 1,012 firearms [Obama/Holder gunwalking arms recovery] seized in the U.S. by DHS agencies. However, ICE has not analyzed ATF data on 56,000 U.S. firearms recovered in Mexico. Additional data and analysis could enhance U.S. efforts to understand firearms sources and smuggling routes.
Examples of Firearms Recovered in Mexico

U.S. agencies have undertaken a number of efforts to disrupt firearms trafficking to Mexico—including several recently established efforts as well as prior and ongoing ones—but are unable to assess progress toward this goal.

• In April 2020, ATF established Operation Southbound to coordinate with other agencies to disrupt firearms trafficking to Mexico. ATF also conducts investigations related to Mexico.
• In fiscal year 2020, ICE and DHS's U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) established a joint operation to intercept firearms being smuggled to Mexico. ICE and CBP also conduct other efforts related to this issue. For example, in fiscal years 2015 through 2017, ICE-led taskforces seized 1,104 firearms along the southwest border. In fiscal years 2014 through 2019, CBP seized an annual average of 115 firearms at the border, and in the first 10 months of fiscal year 2020, CBP increased outbound inspection at some ports of entry and seized 321 firearms.
• The Department of State (State) helps lead a working group to coordinate these and other U.S. efforts with the government of Mexico. State also provided $54 million in fiscal years 2015 through 2019 to help build Mexico's capacity to disrupt trafficking through, for example, forensics training, inspection equipment, and canines trained for weapons detection.

However, none of the agencies have fully developed performance measures for their efforts to disrupt firearms trafficking to Mexico, and thus they have limited ability to assess progress. Identifying performance measures—including goals, indicators, targets, and time frames—would enhance their ability to optimize the use of U.S. government resources to address this threat to U.S. national security.

Why GAO Did This Study​

The U.S. Southwest Border Counternarcotics Strategy: 2020 identified the trafficking of firearms from the U.S. into Mexico as a threat to the safety and security of both countries. The Mexican government has estimated that 200,000 firearms are smuggled from the United States each year. BY WHO?
GAO was asked to report on U.S. efforts to counter firearms trafficking to Mexico. This report examines (1) the extent of U.S. agencies' knowledge about firearms trafficking to Mexico and (2) U.S. agencies' efforts to disrupt this trafficking and the extent to which they have assessed those efforts. GAO reviewed firearms tracing data, related analysis, and program information for fiscal years 2014 through 2020. GAO also interviewed U.S. and Mexican officials.
This is a public version of a sensitive report that GAO issued in December 2020.
Meaning, censored.

 

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Jeffrey Epstein, ZORRO ranch in New Mexico was broken into, undisclosed number of firearms were stolen.

SOMEONE DOES NOT WANT THE CASE SOLVED.

EXCLUSIVE: Jeffrey Epstein was robbed of '30-40' guns in still unsolved New Mexico ranch case

Police closed the case over a lack of cooperation.

www.dailydot.com

EXCLUSIVE: Jeffrey Epstein was robbed of ’30-40′ guns in still unsolved New Mexico ranch case​

Police closed the case over a lack of cooperation.​

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Posted on Jan 10, 2024 Updated on Jan 12, 2024, 3:28 pm CST

A New Mexico Department of Public Safety police report obtained exclusively by the Daily Dot details a burglary at pedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein’s Zorro Ranch in August 2018 where thieves allegedly stole “30-40” guns. The cache of weapons included handguns, rifles, and antique weapons from a gun locker in a garage at a residence on the ranch.
Epstein’s Zorro Ranch, a sprawling, 8,000-acre property outside of Santa Fe, was home to a huge mansion he bought in the 1990s where some women and children accused him and Ghislaine Maxwell of sexually abusing them.
Maria Farmer, who told the Daily Beast about her and her sister Annie’s assaults by Epstein and his former partner, the convicted child sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, once claimed that Zorro Ranch had “pinhole cameras to record everything on every estate. The cameras were ubiquitous.”
MISDIRECTION Epstein’s goal at the ranch was “to have 20 women at a time impregnated,” reported the New York Times in an article detailing his dream to “seed the human race with his DNA.”

According to the police report, written by Officer Jordan Burd of the New Mexico Department of Public Safety, property managers Amber and Steve Chavez did their regular daily checks of the property on Aug. 26, 2018 around 7:00pm and found nothing out of the ordinary. The owner of the property, in the report, is described as living “out of state.”
The next day, Aug. 27, Amber Chavez checked a residence located in the southwest section of the ranch and found the large, west-facing window of the building’s garage broken out. Amber called Steve, who’s described as her husband in the report, and waited until he arrived to check the garage out.
Steve Chavez “immediately noticed” that a “very large gun safe located in the garage was stolen,” wrote Burd, the reporting officer. In it were an estimated ’30-40′ guns. A GUN SAFE [for 35 long guns] THAT SIZE WOULD WEIGH A COUPLE THOUSAND POUNDS!!!
According to Steve Chavez, the thieves also stole a weed eater, a leaf blower, and several sets of tools from the garage, according to the report.
Amber Chavez said that when they moved on to the residence north of the garage, they saw items had also been moved around, and two rifles were taken out of the closets in the bedrooms.
The Chavezes then told Officer Burd that they found tire tracks “in a southern direction” leading to the front of the garage and back. They traced the tire tracks to a dirt road about 1-2 miles off the property, where they found that somebody had cut through the fence that surrounds the entire ranch.
The Chavezes also said that a log cabin was broken into on the northwest of the ranch, which overlooks a large valley. They said items had been thrown around and broken, but that nothing had been stolen, though a large antique stovetop had been pulled off its base where it lay broken on its side.
A third property, about 200 yards to the east of the log cabin, was also apparently broken into. Amber Chavez said a few antique lamps, as well as a showpiece antique weapon, were stolen as well.
In the first report, Officer Burd tells the Chavezes that he needed serial numbers for the weapons to complete his report, but noted that as of Aug. 30, he hadn’t received any yet. Over the next few weeks, detailed in the follow-up reports, it’s the same story.
On Sept. 18, 2018, Burd wrote that he still hadn’t received any of the gun serial numbers, so he tried to call “Bryce Gordon,” who had originally reported the theft from out of state. Gordon, whose first name is spelled “Brice” in various public documents detailing his role as Jeffrey Epstein’s long-time ranch manager, and was granted a limited power of attorney by Epstein at least once to manage the ranch, is described as being “based out of the Virgin Islands” by Burd in the report.
Epstein’s notorious private island, one of the many places where he was accused of trafficking underage girls, was in the U.S. Virgin Islands, where Epstein’s estate was sued after his death for hundreds of millions of dollars in damages.
Burd left several voicemails on his phone but never got a response.
Flights logs showing the movements of Epstein’s private planes compiled from multiple public sources, including data released during the 2021 criminal trial of Ghislaine Maxwell, reveal that Epstein was briefly in New Mexico for a few days at the beginning of June 2018 before flying back to Palm Beach, Florida. The day of the robbery he was in Palm Beach, but had stopped in the U.S. Virgin Islands the day before.
The Daily Dot left a voicemail for Gordon asking about the burglary and his current whereabouts (a Sun story from 2020 claimed that Gordon “vanished” from New Mexico after Epstein died) but got no response.
On Sept. 19, Burd wrote that he called Amber Chavez to ask about the gun serial numbers, but she said she wouldn’t be at the ranch for the next several days.
“Mrs. Chavez then stated she would call me back at a later date to set up an appointment to meet with me and stated she was in a bad cell phone service area,” Burd noted.
On Sept. 25, the reporting officer tried calling Gordon again at his Virgin Island number, as well as the Chavez couple, but couldn’t get in touch with any of them. Because he’d tried multiple times to contact them and heard nothing, he decided to close the case.
In June 2020, a couple from Artesia, New Mexico were arrested and charged with robbing the ranch after they were found with bolt cutters and an antique mirror in their car, reported KRQE News, but there appears to be no link between that robbery and the 2018 theft.
The New Mexico Department of Public Safety didn’t respond to questions asking for more details about the case.

 

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Flights logs showing the movements of Epstein’s private planes compiled from multiple public sources, including data released during the 2021 criminal trial of Ghislaine Maxwell, reveal that Epstein was briefly in New Mexico

https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21165406/jeffrey-epstein-private-plane-flight-logs.pdf

CIA'S AIR AMERICA

Air America: The History of the CIA's Covert Airline

Air America was a CIA owned airline which served US interests across the world. It later became involved in narcotics trafficking in Laos

greydynamics.com

 

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New Mexico County Police Officials Named in Gun-Trafficking Scheme ...​

Oct 27, 2023

Two Albuquerque, New Mexico police officials have been named in a federal indictment involving a conspiracy to traffick more than 1,000 guns the ATF classifies as machine guns, Tommy Lopez reports for KOB4.

According to the indictment, Former Bernalillo County Sheriff Manny Gonzales and former Laguna Pueblo Police Chief Rudy Mora played critical roles in the conspiracy, which spans at least four states, by submitting requests for the guns and lying to the feds about the reason why they wanted them.

Gonzales allegedly requested 598 guns from 2015 to 2020 and Mora, who was also Gonzales’ undersheriff at the BCSO, allegedly asked for 414 guns from 2020 to 2021.

Both men allegedly worked with an Albuquerque gun dealer charged in the scheme, and all their requests for guns involved him. They are not facing charges, but six other people are.



DDG - VIDEO - gun trafficking in new mexico
DDG - Articles - gun trafficking in new mexico

 

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Seventh Defendant Sentenced in Murder of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry

www.justice.gov

Seventh Defendant Sentenced in Murder of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry​

Wednesday, September 21, 2022

TUCSON, Arizona – Jesus Rosario Favela-Astorga was sentenced in federal court today to 50 years in prison for the murder of United States Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry on December 14, 2010. Favela-Astorga pleaded guilty to Agent Terry’s murder in April 2022. He is the seventh and final defendant to be convicted and sentenced in this case.

“Today is for Brian Terry, and his loved ones and colleagues who waited eleven years to see justice come to all who were involved in his tragic murder,” said U.S. Attorney Randy S. Grossman of the Southern District of California. “We hope it fulfills the promise to everyone who protects us. We’ll relentlessly pursue justice against those who do them harm for as long as it takes.” Grossman thanked the prosecution team, the FBI and the U.S. Border Patrol for their relentless quest for justice in this matter.

Favela-Astorga admitted as part of his guilty plea, and evidence presented at two trials in this case in 2015 and 2019 established, that he was one of several armed bandits who had traveled from Mexico to the U.S. to hunt for marijuana smugglers to rob. At the time, Agent Terry and other members of the Border Patrol Tactical Unit (BORTAC) were on extended deployment in the desert to apprehend such robbery crews.

On December 14, near midnight, Agent Terry’s team attempted to arrest Favela-Astorga’s crew in a rural area north of Nogales, Arizona. A member of the robbery crew fired at the agents, hitting Agent Terry in the back and severing his spinal cord and aorta. According to evidence presented at the prior trials, Agent Terry called to a fellow agent, “Willie, I’m hit! I can’t feel my legs.” BORTAC agents, still under fire, tried to save Agent Terry but were unsuccessful.

Evidence from the trials established the five bandits at the scene were armed with four AK-47-style assault rifles and an AR-15 assault rifle and had food to last for days.

Favela-Astorga and others fled back to Mexico, leaving behind Manuel Osorio-Arellanes who had been shot in the stomach by agents. Manuel Osorio-Arellanes was convicted and sentenced in 2014 to 30 years in prison after cooperating in identifying other members of the robbery crew who were fugitives.

Mexican authorities arrested Favela-Astorga in October 2017 based on a provisional arrest warrant issued at the request of the United States. He was extradited to the United States in January 2020.

The other members of the robbery crew at the scene were Heraclio Osorio-Arellanes, Ivan Soto-Barraza, and Jesus Lionel Sanchez-Meza. All three were arrested in Mexico years after the shooting. Soto-Barraza and Sanchez-Meza were extradited to the United States in 2014, convicted at trial in December 2015, and sentenced to life in prison. Heraclio Osorio-Arellanes was extradited to the United States in 2018, convicted at trial in February 2019, and sentenced to life in prison.

In addition, Rosario Rafael Burboa-Alvarez pleaded guilty to murder and, while not at the firefight, admitted he recruited the crew members in Mexico. Burboa-Alvarez was sentenced to 324 months in prison. Border Patrol agents also had arrested Rito Osorio-Arellanes on immigration charges two days before the shootout, unaware he was part of the robbery crew. Osorio later pleaded guilty to conspiracy to interfere with commerce by robbery and was sentenced to 96 months in prison.

Agent Terry’s murder was principally investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. Border Patrol. The U.S. Marshals Service, the Mexican Navy (SEMAR), Mexico’s Office of the Attorney General (PGR), and the Department of Justice, Office of International Affairs, helped with Favela-Astorga’s apprehension and extradition.

“For over the last decade, the FBI and our partners have worked to bring justice to all involved in the killing of agent Brian Terry. We will not and did not waver in our commitment to ensure that those who commit acts of violence against law enforcement officials will be held accountable and punished to the fullest extent of the law,” said Chris Ormerod, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Phoenix Field Office. “We hope today’s final sentence will help bring a degree of comfort to Agent Terry’s family in knowing that all the individuals responsible for his murder have been brought to justice.”

“Today’s sentencing brings justice to the last of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian A. Terry’s murderers,” said Tucson Sector Chief Patrol Agent John Modlin.

“I thank the many law enforcement professionals who have worked on this case for over a decade and, in particular, acknowledge the dedication and efforts of FBI Special Agent Michelle Terwilliger who has led the investigation since the night of the shooting,” said Grossman.

The case was prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of California after the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Arizona was recused.

SUMMARY OF CHARGES Case No. 11-cr-0150-TUC-DCB-BGM
Jesus Rosario Favela-Astorga Age: 41 El Fuerte, Sinaloa, Mexico
Murder, Second Degree, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 1111, 1114
Maximum Penalty: Life in prison
INVESTIGATING AGENCIES
Federal Bureau of Investigation
United States Border Patrol

Updated September 21, 2022

 

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Gun makers to ask US Supreme Court to bar Mexico's lawsuit

Mexico's $10 Billion lawsuit, if they were to win, could easily put those gun manufacturers out of business.

It has never made sense to people why Operation Fast and Furious was really done.
Obama & AG Eric Holder knew exactly what they were doing with their gunwalking program, both "men" are incredibly anti-gun Communist African black creeps.

The Jeffrey Epstein's Zorro Ranch (Forbes article, ludicrous ideas) was very likely a 'holding' house to store guns until they were taken into Mexico. If Epstein was human trafficking, gun trafficking almost always parallels, especially given that fact that Mexico's drug gangs admittedly gets majority of their guns from USA. Whoever stole those guns from Zorro Ranch and the huge gun safe were professionals with lift equipment and a truck. Whether Epstein knew what his house, which he spent little to no time at, was used for a gun trafficking way station for years is debatable. Could it be that Epstein bought the ranch for that very purpose? It's not the first, or last time Jews have armed a country in preparation for civil wars. They've had their fingers in that pie for the past 220 years.
You would learn that in The Secret Masonic Victory of World War 2 - youtube

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The 2nd Amendment stands in Supreme Court after Heller in 2008.
They had to do something big. Fast and Furious was bigger than big.

God bless the tenacity of Dick Heller, Special Police Officer in D.C. for his service, and his Landmark case win for Americans.

District of Columbia v. Heller - Wikipedia

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District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570 (2008), is a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States. It ruled that the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects an individual's right to keep and bear arms—unconnected with service in a militia—for traditionally lawful purposes such as self-defense within the home, and that the District of Columbia's handgun ban and requirement that lawfully owned rifles and shotguns be kept "unloaded and disassembled or bound by a trigger lock" violated this guarantee.[1]

The Second Amendment protects an individual right to possess a firearm unconnected with service in a militia, and to use that arm for traditionally lawful purposes, such as self-defense within the home. Provisions of the Firearms Control Regulations Act of 1975 infringe an individual's right to bear arms as protected by the Second Amendment. United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit affirmed.
Also McDonald v. City of Chicago (2010).

The Heller Decision and Individual Right to Firearms

www.law.cornell.edu

 

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It has never made sense to people why Operation Fast and Furious was really done.
Obama & AG Eric Holder knew exactly what they were doing with their gunwalking program, both "men" are incredibly anti-gun Communist African black creeps.

P DIDDY, presently has several homes being raided by Department of Homeland Security for sex and arms trafficking. Heavy connection to Obama prior to 2010 Brian Terry shootout at the border.

 

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District of Columbia v. Heller

Fuzz headed NEGRO 'Elie Mystal' would love to reverse the ruling on that landmark case.
It is foolish to think that a black "journalist" like Mystal, who is extremely Anti-White, doesn't know that blacks disarmed Whites in South Africa.
Mystal always omits the fact that it is blacks who commit the majority of gun crimes.
He only focuses on White gun owners.

Dark Crime - U.S.A.​

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• August 7, 2019

It’s Time to Repeal—and Replace—the Second Amendment​

The meaning of the amendment has been so badly mangled that our only choice is to start over with something that allows for real gun control.​

Elie Mystal

SNIPPED
It has become an axiomatic feature of political gravity that we cannot have a frontal and honest conversation about the Second Amendment because it will whip ammo-sexuals into a frenzy and cause them to vote Republican.
It was only in the 1970s that the National Rifle Association basically invented the new constitutional theory that the Second Amendment conferred a personal right to own military grade weapons for “self-defense.” It was only in the 1980s that the Republican Party figured out that harping on this new interpretation of the Second Amendment was a good way to keep rural white people voting for Republicans and against their own economic interests. And it was only in 2008, after years of slowly expanding the amendment’s reach, that the Supreme Court decided District of Columbia v. Heller—a case in which the allegedly “originalist” Antonin Scalia recognized for the first time in American history a constitutional right to own a gun for self-defense. It takes an originalist, I suppose, to invent an entirely new constitutional right out in front of your face and then pretend like it’s always been there.
It will take overwhelming popular support to repeal the Second Amendment, but guess what, it takes overwhelming popular support to do anything about gun regulation. The utility of starting to muster that popular support against the Second Amendment is that, if successful, that support cannot be frustrated by Republican judges ensconced in our antidemocratic branch of government. If Republicans tell us it’s the Second Amendment that stands in the way of reasonable gun reform, then it’s the Second Amendment that we should be coming for.

 

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It has never made sense to people why Operation Fast and Furious was really done.
Obama & AG Eric Holder knew exactly what they were doing with their gunwalking program, both "men" are incredibly anti-gun Communist African black creeps.

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U.S. Attorney Eric Holder says we must brainwash people into thinking differently about guns​

 

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In Historic Vote, House Holds AG Eric Holder in Contempt​

for withholding documents on Operation Fast and Furious

 

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In Historic Vote, House Holds AG Eric Holder in Contempt​

for withholding documents on Operation Fast and Furious

“Testimony and a persistent reluctance to fully cooperate make clear that many officials at ATF and the Department of Justice would have preferred to quietly sweep this matter under the rug.

This new report, “Fast and Furious: The Anatomy of a Failed Operation, Part I of III,”

https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/ATF_Report.pdf

is based on transcribed interviews with 24 individuals, some covering multiple days; informal interviews with more than 50 individuals; and the review of more than 10,000 pages of documents. While the Justice Department has withheld tens of thousands of pages of documents and denied access to numerous witnesses, the investigation did find sufficient evidence to draw conclusions concerning the origins of Operation Fast and Furious, the detrimental effect of inter-agency miscommunications and turf issues, flawed strategies, delays, and an overall failure to effectively supervise subordinate offices.

Congressional Investigators Release First Part of Final Joint Report on Operation Fast and Furious - United States House Committee on Oversight and Accountability

United States House Committee on Oversight and Accountability

oversight.house.gov

 

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page 49

XI. DOJ’s Continued Denials: “That is False.”

FINDING: Despite mounting evidence to the contrary, DOJ continues to deny
that Operation Fast and Furious was ill-conceived and had deadly
consequences.

The denials of gunwalking became more sensational as they continued. Presented with
an opportunity to set the record straight, the Department of Justice instead chose a path of denial.

page 51
B. More Denials
Even after the U.S. Congress presented it with evidence that the statements in the
February 4, 2011 letter were false, the Department of Justice still stood by its initial position. In
a May 2, 2011 response to a letter from Senator Grassley, the Department maintained its original
position:
It remains our understanding that ATF’s Operation Fast and Furious did
not knowingly permit straw buyers to take guns into Mexico. You have
provided to us documents, including internal ATF emails, which you
believe support your allegation. . . . [W]e have referred these documents
and all correspondence and materials received from you related to
Operation Fast and Furious to the Acting Inspector General, so that she
may conduct a thorough review and resolve your allegations.71
The Justice Department also notes that the Attorney General has “made clear . . . that the
Department should never knowingly permit firearms to cross the border.”

XII. Conclusion
We will persist in seeking documents and testimony from Justice Department officials
and other sources to thoroughly examine all the key questions. The Department should avail
itself of the opportunity to come clean and provide complete answers. It should also reverse its
position and choose to fully cooperate with the investigation.

 

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Does it make sense now, on why Obama and AG Eric Holder were stonewalling, refusing to release all the documents?

It has never made sense to people why Operation Fast and Furious was really done.
Obama & AG Eric Holder knew exactly what they were doing with their gunwalking program, both "men" are incredibly anti-gun Communist African black creeps.