FBI Agent’s “Smoking Gun”

A major argument by the mainstream media has been that American firearms are fueling the drug war south of the border, and the MSM has further suggested that tighter gun laws would reduce the number of guns heading to the hands of those involved with the Mexican drug cartels. But exactly how many of those guns are exactly “legally” purchased firearms? And how many are coming from gray markets, police officers and the military in Mexico? That number has not been factored in much by the MSM. So let’s see how the MSM reacts to the guns coming from American law enforcement. Consider this passage in the Houston Chronicle this week:

“A high-powered rifle allegedly sold illegally by an El Paso FBI agent was used in a deadly Mexican drug cartel shootout last year, court records show.

“According to a 2008 search warrant, agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives linked a .50-caliber rifle sold by FBI agent John T. Shipley to a March 2008 shootout between drug cartel fighters and Mexican army soldiers. An army captain and six cartel members were killed in the nearly three-hour shootout in Chihuahua, agents said in the warrant.”

Clearly this isn’t a case of an average American gun owner selling anything close to an average American gun. This is an expensive gun (the paper says the gun was sold for $8,300), one that isn’t readily available at even the largest gun superstores in Texas. So how will the mainstream media react? We’re expecting some sort of anti-gun spin of course.

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