Today the Huffington Post offered this headline, “Fast and Furious-Like ‘Gun-Walking’ Probe Mentioned in 2007 Bush Administration Memo.” Well, there you have it, the smoking gun. Except maybe Huff and Puff didn’t get the memo that this is actually old news. No one is disputing this fact.

There are some differences. For one Brian Terry, the border control agent who was killed with guns from Fast and Furious. So far nothing this significant happened with the guns in Wide Receiver.

But that’s beside the points for the liberals, because somehow in their world two wrongs can make a right as long as they can blame Bush!

“President Felipe Calderon says Mexican forces have captured more than 93,000 weapons in four years. Mexican authorities insist that 90 percent have been smuggled from the U.S.”

Of course this 90 percent figure has been widely debunked, but Crime Report failed to note that fact.

The op-ed piece includes this passage:

“Over the past three years, some 30,000 people have been gunned down in Mexico in attacks fueled by drug cartels. Military and law enforcement officers there have seized some 60,000 weapons that were used in these crimes and traced to the United States. Mexican President Felipe Calderon has pleaded with U.S. officials to step up enforcement of gun laws and reinstate the assault-weapons ban. Doing so would be good policy but would trigger a fierce fight. For the moment, the administration has something much more modest in mind.”

File this one under Old News (we did). We’ll ask what would the assault-weapon ban really do? It wouldn’t stop the flow of firearms to Mexico, just ban a particular style of firearms from general sale to law-abiding Americans.

What bothers us the most however is this statement:

“The administration should continue to look for lawful ways to dam the current of illegal guns, particularly those that are helping to destabilize America’s neighbor to the south.”

What if there are no “lawful ways to dam the current of illegal guns,” what then? We already see that WaPo suggests banning a gun, thus changing the laws. So what is to stop WaPo, or other anti-gun zealots, from suggesting that other guns are banned? We have a feeling that the “law” that they’re talking about is first changing the law, and then enforcing it.

Instead it was just simply akin to a press release. 

 The coverage included quotes from Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York City, founder of Mayors Against Illegal Guns. But worrisome to us is that this is old news. It almost seems as if the media doesn’t want this story to die for some reason.

“Mexico City Mayor Marcelo Ebrard Casauban said at the forum that 85 percent of the guns used by Mexican drug cartels come from the U.S., according to a published report.”

The problem is that this remains untrue. It was widely debunked a year ago, yet the mainstream media still reports this figure as if it is fact.

“‘This war is being waged with guns purchased not here, but in the United States,’ Mr. Obama said in Mexico City in April, 2009. ‘More than 90 percent of the guns recovered in Mexico come from the United States, many from gun shops that line our shared border.’

“The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence said the administration’s plans to help Mexico fight drug cartels would be inadequate without new gun restrictions, but the administration’s call to reinstitute the Assault Weapons Ban went nowhere. The administration has also failed to close the gun show loophole.”

The problem with this statement is that the 90 percent number, as we’ve reported on for nearly a year, is that it is wrong. 90 percent of guns recovered in Mexico do NOT come from the United States. This story clearly has the typical mainstream media liberal agenda to present a message without presenting all the facts.

“Some 90 percent of the guns seized from operations against organized crime in Mexico come from the United States.”

As we have reported throughout 2009, this is false. Some 90 percent of guns seized in Mexico do NOT come from the United States. Let’s hope the media does a better job of reporting on these facts in 2010.

“In a year of job losses, foreclosures and bag lunches, Americans have spent record-breaking amounts of money on guns and ammunition. The most obvious sign of their demand: empty ammunition shelves. At points during the past year, bullets have been selling faster than factories could make them.”

First, we’d like ask our colleagues north of the border for a source on the point that bullets are actually being sold “faster than factories could make them.” Yes, ammo is selling, but so far even the American press hasn’t stated that dubious claim. Or has it?

A closer look at the story reveals that this wasn’t actually original copy – as in an original article from Canada, but is in fact just a passage quoted from The Washington Post. This story of course offers the usual suggestions that it is fear of Obama taking away guns that are driving the sales.

Additionally, what the Canadian abridged version fails to point out is at least in the WaPo version, which stresses that America is involved in two wars right now. Factor in the additional training, and maybe the ammo shortage isn’t just people hording. While WaPo offers this suggestion, via the argument from ammo makers, the rest of the mainstream media – including that in Canada now – just blames gun owners of course.

Maybe if these stories stopped appearing readers who were on the fence about stockpiling guns and ammo would stop stockpiling guns and ammo, and you know what… the stories would probably stop too. But instead, we’d probably see twisted stores claiming that gun owners now see the light that legislation isn’t coming, that fears about the president were unfounded or that many decided guns aren’t just safe. In other words, look for the MSM to concoct some farfetched stories without doing the requisite research. If it easy enough to report about false fears, why not report about other falsehoods.

Dean Allen, a GOP candidate for South Carolina’s Adjutant General, held a “machine gun social” last Saturday. Allen, from Greenville SC, said the fund raiser was his way of celebrating the 2^nd Amendment as well as showing solidarity against gun control opponents.

Around 500 people showed up Saturday at the Allen Arms Indoor Shooting Range, which is owned by Frank Allen who is unrelated to the candidate. Donors paid twenty-five dollars for barbecued food and ammo to take target practice with the weapon of their choice. A sweepstakes to win an AK-47 was included at no extra charge.

Dean Allen is quoted as saying, “I like to tell people I’m not the country club conservative, I’m the machine gun one.”

I prefer a politician who shoots firearms to one who shoots golf. We need people in local and state elected positions who protect our 2^nd Amendment Right. Besides, who would want to shoot a golf, what have they ever done to anyone?