The anti gun folks are losing it. Why are they silent on "gunwalker"?

Anti-gun groups silent on ‘Project Gunwalker’

From David Codrea we get this report.

http://www.examiner.com/gun-rights-in-national/anti-gun-groups-silent-on-project-gunwalker?CID=examiner_alerts_article

“Since 2006, 14 U.S. Custom and Border Patrol Agents have been killed, most recently Brian Terry, fatally wounded in December of last year with an AK-47,” Brady Center Vice President Dennis Henigan writes in The Huffington Post.

At least he gets the numbers right. That's the only thing he's right about.
Here's his misinformed spew.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dennis-a-henigan/house-gun-vote-shows-hypo_b_827578.html

He's still spewing the 60,000 gun number. Numbers that have been proven wrong time after time. He's also upset about guns purchased by traffickers. He goes on to rant.

"Take the case of Sean Steward, an indicted trafficker who, over two days in early December, 2009, bought 50 assault rifles at two stores and then, on Christmas Eve, bought another 40 at a store in Glendale, Arizona. Another accused trafficker, Uriel Patino, made multiple purchases of assault rifles on 20 separate occasions, including buying 40 on one day, 26 on another, and 16 on another."

The ATF coerced the gun shops to go ahead with these sales. He conviniently left that little detail out. He is trying to vilify the shop owners when the ATF approved the sales. Then he starts in on the new "rule" the ATF wants. A rule to require reporting of 2 or more long gun purchases. Then he goes on to ask a silly question.

Why is the NRA so opposed to the proposed rule?

Here's a simple answer. It amounts to registration. The ATF has always wanted a list of all gun owners. This is a way to get one and make the public think everything is OK, it's for the benefit of the people. I call bullshit. It's defacto registration.

Then, he tries to pass off the big lie.

"The proposed ATF rule would apply this same reporting requirement to some semi-automatic rifles, but only those sold by dealers in four states and only for a period of one year."

Anyone want to buy some Arizona beachfront property? If he believes this, he's the only one. They would expand this the first chance they got.

He rails about the gun traffickers, yet he's silent on the "gunwalker" scandal.

David responded with this challenge to the Brady bunch.

Since Henigan invoked Agent Terry’s name, let’s see if he’s capable of joining with some of those “courageous officers” he lauds who have put their necks on the block to do the man’s memory justice. I call on him and Brady Campaign President Paul Helmke to issue a public statement demanding full and public Congressional hearings into allegations that higher-ups within the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), with cognizance of the Department of Justice:

* Intentionally allowed perhaps as many as 3,000 firearms to "walk" across the U.S. border into Mexico with the purpose of boosting the statistics of seized firearms with American commercial provenance from Mexican crime scenes.
* Instructed U.S. gun dealers to proceed with questionable and illegal sales of firearms to suspected gunrunners.
* Intentionally withheld information about U.S.-sanctioned gun smuggling from the Mexican government.
* Are intentionally avoiding releasing information about monitored rifles found at the murder scene of CBP Agent Brian Terry, specifically if one of those firearms has been determined to be the murder weapon.
* Are involved in covering up ATF and DOJ culpability by various means including the unlawful threatening of current-serving ATF agents with personal knowledge of the case.


http://www.examiner.com/gun-rights-in-national/a-journalist-s-guide-to-project-gunwalker
You can go here and read the time line of "gunwalker" starting with the death of CBP agent Brian Terry.

David finishes up with this admonishment and challenge to the Brady bunch.

Is it not in the interest of furthering the Brady’s purported goals to establish the truth in this? At least the ones they're willing to publicly disclose?

If not, Mr. Henigan, “please spare us the phony talk about the need to” give a Bureau that is so obviously broken even more power and authority before finding out exactly what’s wrong with it and fixing it. And “please spare us the phony talk about” how imposing even more restrictions on Americans who are already obeying “the laws on the books” is just the ticket for curing Mexico’s narcoterrorism woes.

That last sentence is the crux of the issue. We abide by the law and yet the Bradys and other want even more restrictions on a right that is not supposed to be infringed.