If you want a Saiga shotgun, you better get it soon...

You know the atf, the government agency who's goal is to take away your guns and gun rights? It seems they are on a mission to end or  seriously restrict the importation of shotguns.

Don't these assholes have enough to worry about with project gunwalker? You would think that would be consuming most of their time these days, from both ends. Conducting it and defending it...

Anyway, these are some of the criteria for the weapons they propose banning:

Folding, telescoping, or collapsible stocks

Bayonet lugs

Flash suppressors

Magazines over 5 rounds, or a drum magazine

Grenade-launcher mounts

Integrated rail systems (other than on top of the receiver or barrel)

Light enhancing devices

Excessive weight (greater than 10 pounds for 12 gauge or smaller)

Excessive bulk (greater than 3 inches in width and/or greater than 4 inches in depth)

Forward pistol grips or other protruding parts designed or used for gripping the shotgun with the shooter’s extended hand.

This is just a stupid list. And who in the hell are they to tell me what I can purchase with my hard earned dollars? If I want a 14 pound, magazine fed 12 gauge, with a flash suppresor and a pistol grip, that is my business.

What does weight or width have to do with the importation of a shotgun anyway? Or a rail system? Or a bayonet lug?

These guys really need to get a hobby or something instead of sitting around thinking up ways to fuck with the American people...

NRA to Call for Holder's Resignation Over 'Project Gunrunner' Allegations

The NRA should not only call for the resignation of holder, but doing away with the entire atf.

While everyone is saying that project gunrunner was an operation designed to bring down gun smuggling operations in the US and mexico, I have my doubts. I think it was a way to pad the numbers of guns  winding up south of the border with the goal of further restricting our gun rights. I think that mexico actually had very little to do with it other than being a destination.

I truly believe the atf is so anti-gun and so corrupt that it completely ignores all rules in it's quest to end our freedoms. It wouldn't surprise me to find out that obama is involved in this up to his neck. That isn't something we are likely to find out. His fingerprints in this have been covered well. holder is another matter. With enough digging and the cooperation of a few insiders and there are bound to be tracks leading to his door.

I hope the NRA isn't holding their breath on this, holder will never willingly walk away. He and obama have proven that they give not a damn about the opinion of the American people...

By William Lajeunesse - FoxNews

Having deflected questions so far regarding how much he knew about a federal project suspected of allowing guns sold in the U.S. to be illegally smuggled to Mexico, Attorney General Eric Holder is under fire again, this time from the National Rifle Association, a conservative group with a loud voice and influence in Washington.

Sources tell Fox News that NRA Executive Director Wayne LaPierre will call for Holder's resignation in a Saturday morning speech at the NRA's annual meeting in Pittsburgh.

LaPierre has criticized Holder's handling of "Project Gunrunner." The program of the Justice Department's Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms is intended to stop the flow of guns to criminals in Mexico, but whistleblowers claim the bureau actually encouraged the illegal sale of firearms to known criminals, then allowed those guns to be smuggled to Mexico and tracked.

The practice of knowingly allowing guns to "walk" -- or be sold to straw buyers and then transferred to criminal organizations -- is against ATF policy. However, at least 15 ATF whistleblowers claim the agency, with the approval of Holder's Department of Justice, encouraged gun stores to make sales to questionable buyers, then failed to interdict the weapons.

According to Mexican authorities, at least 1,800 of those weapons were successfully smuggled into Mexico, where the cartels used them to commit crimes and foment violence.

What especially galls and upsets U.S. gun owners is this: While the ATF was allegedly sending guns south, hoping to eventually bust the entire trafficking organization, Obama administration officials, including President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, were partly blaming U.S. gun stores for the violence in Mexico.

"This war is being waged with guns purchased not here but in the United States. ... More than 90 percent of the guns recovered in Mexico come from the United States, many from gun shops that lay in our shared border," President Obama said on a visit to Mexico on April 16, 2009.

Read the rest at the link above...

Obama Administration Under Mounting Pressure for Botched Gun Trafficking Investigation

Something you will probably never hear is that two bloggers got this whole ball rolling, Mike Vanderboegh from Sipsey Street Irregulars and David Codrea from National Gun Rights Examiner. Without these two guys this entire government abuse of power would have continued. The atf would have kept right on allowing guns into mexico that would find their way back here to kill more Americans. All the while the atf would have continued to pad their numbers and then used those numbers to steal more of our gun rights.

There is no possible way that eric holder was unaware of this operation. I would be willing to bet that obama was aware as well. Lie and deny. We can only hope that someone is able to uncover the evidence that links these two to this mess. It would be more than ironic if these two anti-gun scumbags were brought down over a gun case...

By William La Jeunesse - FoxNews

Congress and the Department of Justice appear to be headed for a showdown this week over documents detailing Operation Fast and Furious, the botched gunrunning sting set up by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives that funneled more than 1,700 smuggled weapons from Arizona to Mexico.

The Justice Department has until Wednesday to deliver to congressional investigators a stack of records and emails naming the individuals responsible for the gun trafficking operation that may have killed dozens, if not hundreds of Mexicans, and is becoming a growing embarrassment for the Obama administration.

Under Project Gunrunner and the Phoenix off-shoot, dubbed Fast and Furious, the ATF encouraged gun store owners to sell to straw buyers -- consumers who they suspected of working on behalf of Mexican drug cartels.

Project Gunrunner purposely allowed the straw buyers to illegally buy and export guns only to see where they surfaced in Mexico. Using this investigative technique, the ATF hoped to take down the entire gun trafficking organization. Instead, records show it allowed more than 1,700 guns, including hundreds of AK-47s and high-powered, armor-piercing .50-caliber rifles to be trafficked to Mexico

Buying guns for non-personal use is illegal. Yet gun store owners were assured by ATF agents the buyers were under investigation and the guns were being intercepted before crossing into Mexico.

Instead, whistleblowers say the guns were allowed "to walk."

President Obama, speaking for the first time about the growing scandal, conceded last week Fast and Furious may have been "a serious mistake," but he claimed, "I did not authorize it; Eric Holder, the attorney general, did not authorize it. He's been very clear that our policy is to catch gunrunners and put them into jail."

But an investigation by Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, could show otherwise.

The ATF operates under Justice Department, and two assistant U.S. attorneys in Phoenix authorized virtually every wiretap, affidavit and investigation conducted in Operation Fast and Furious.

Some, like Issa, wonder how Holder could not have known about an investigation that size...

Read the rest at the link abve...

Agent: I was ordered to let U.S. guns into Mexico

Finally, a lame stream media outlet gives this story some coverage. This is a big deal and it shows the utter incompetence of the atf. They are basically supplying guns to the drug cartels and have been for quite a while. At the same time, they are using the guns they supply to pad the numbers and make the problem of American guns in mexico seem worse than it really is. It really seems like the guns supplied by the atf are the majority of what makes it south of the border...

By Sharyl Attkisson - CBSNews

WASHINGTON - Federal agent John Dodson says what he was asked to do was beyond belief.

He was intentionally letting guns go to Mexico?

"Yes ma'am," Dodson told CBS News. "The agency was."

An Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms senior agent assigned to the Phoenix office in 2010, Dodson's job is to stop gun trafficking across the border. Instead, he says he was ordered to sit by and watch it happen.

Investigators call the tactic letting guns "walk." In this case, walking into the hands of criminals who would use them in Mexico and the United States.

Dodson's bosses say that never happened. Now, he's risking his job to go public.

"I'm boots on the ground in Phoenix, telling you we've been doing it every day since I've been here," he said. "Here I am. Tell me I didn't do the things that I did. Tell me you didn't order me to do the things I did. Tell me it didn't happen. Now you have a name on it. You have a face to put with it. Here I am. Someone now, tell me it didn't happen."

Agent Dodson and other sources say the gun walking strategy was approved all the way up to the Justice Department. The idea was to see where the guns ended up, build a big case and take down a cartel. And it was all kept secret from Mexico.

ATF named the case "Fast and Furious."

Read the whole thing at the link above, it's an eye opener...