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<http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/author/scottystarnes/> Comedy Gold:
ATF “Loosens” Restrictions on Gun Sales to
Foreigners<http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/2011/12/27/comedy-gold-atf-loosens-restrictions-on-gun-sales-to-foreigners/>by
Scotty Starnes <http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/author/scottystarnes/>
At a time when the ATF is under the microscope for trafficking firearms to
a foreign country via their scandalous Fast and Furious operation, here
comes this news nugget.
Via
AllGov.com<http://www.allgov.com/US_and_the_World/ViewNews/ATF_Loosens_Restrictions_on_Gun_Sales_to_Foreigners_111226>
:
The Obama administration has decided to eliminate a 1998 restriction on the
sale of guns to foreigners, claiming federal law does not allow the
government to have different gun-control rules for noncitizens.
In a
letter<http://www.atf.gov/press/releases/2011/12/122211-atf-open-letter-state-of-residence.pdf>
to
firearms dealers, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and
Explosives<http://www.allgov.com/agency/Bureau_of_Alcohol__Tobacco__Firearms_and_Explosives_ATF>
(ATF)
said it would no longer require sellers to obtain proof from foreign buyers
that they have lived in the state for 90 days. The rule was originally
instituted after a disturbed Palestinian, 69-year-old Ali Abu Kamal,
admitted to the United States on a legal nonimmigrant visa, bought a
380-caliber Beretta semiautomatic handgun in Florida and, on the
observation deck of the Empire State Building in New York City, shot to
death one person and injured six others.
The ATF and DOJ under Obama have no issues with giving guns to foreigners.
Ask the Mexican government.
“The Department of Justice … has recently concluded that, as a matter of
law, applying a more stringent State residency requirement for aliens
legally present in the U.S. than for U.S. citizens is incompatible with the
language of the [Gun Control Act],” the ATF letter reads.
Some gun-control advocates criticized the change. Senator Frank Lautenberg
(D-New Jersey) said that eliminating the regulation defied “common sense
and puts Americans at risk” because it could make it easier for foreign
terrorists to obtain weapons inside the country.
What else would one expect from an administration who has been supplying
the Mexican drug cartels with firearms?
*Scotty Starnes
<http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/author/scottystarnes/>*| December
27, 2011 at 12:07 PM | Tags:
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