Fort Bridger certainly doesn't look like those old westerns - far from it - instead it looks "real"

The small Fort Bridger in Wyoming, outside the town of the same name, is well off the beaten path but it is a unique and hidden gem. While lacking displays of scale of larger institutions, this museum retains the feel of frontier life in the 19th century. Its small collection is quite impressive, and for anyone passing nearby this is certainly worth the stop!  (Click images for a closer view)

The old sentry box, imagine having to stand in there all day

A display of American soldiers circa the post-Civil War

A diorama that showed the lawout of the Fort Bridger in the 1880s

An American uniform from the 1840s, the era about when the fort was established

A fine collection of long guns from the middle of the 19th century

Another diorama, which shows the crude early forts on the frontier

Long guns and "six shooters" from the post-American Civil War era

Some excellent examples of Colt sidearms!

Does this guy think he is above the laws he’s suppose to protect?

The Los Angeles Times actually has offered even coverage on this:

Reporting from Washington—House Republicans threatened Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. with a criminal contempt of Congress citation Thursday, alleging the Justice Department has refused for a year to turn over key documents in lawmakers’ investigation of the failed Fast and Furious gun-tracking operation.

What remains shocking is not the circus that this has become, but rather that the mainstream media – with a few exceptions such as the LA Times – has sat on this story. Who needs a cover-up when the media doesn’t even try to uncover the facts?

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Cam Edwards and Ginny Simone talk to Congressman Trey Gowdy (R-SC) about Attorney General’s testimony about Operation Fast and Furious in front of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

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Ginny Simone talks to Congresswoman Ann Marie Buerkle (R-NY) about Attorney General’s testimony about Operation Fast and Furious in front of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

Here is what we are talking about:

Bloomberg asserted the (recent) shooting (in New York City) made clear the importance of gun control. He added: “We had too close a brush with death tonight due to illegal guns.”

And the figures prove he’s right. Deputy Police Commissioner Paul Browne told me that about 85 percent of the gun crimes committed in New York City result from gun purchases made in Pennsylvania, Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, “states with comparatively lax gun laws.”

First question, where does Paul Browne get his information? And more to the point, how do the figures prove Bloomberg is right? This number is widely cited, but without a source. Second, what numbers of those are legal vs. illegal gun purchases? In other words, are these even legal purchases that take advantage of “lax gun laws” in the first place? This point is never made clear and is often very vague. Not exactly the facts now are they?

But the facts get even more twisted:

John Feinblatt, the Mayor’s chief policy adviser, told me that states with tough gun laws are unlikely to be the source of illegal guns. He noted that, in fighting gun crimes, two measures are vital: having universal background checks for gun sales and putting all such data in the FBI files. In the case of the Virginia Tech massacre, in which 33 people were killed, the gunman, Seung-hui Cho, had a mental history that indicated he was dangerous but , Feinblatt said, that was never passed on to the FBI. Some state laws on gun sales, he added “have loopholes like swiss [sic] cheese.”

Again, this is twisting the message and points. Seung-hui Cho’s ability to get a gun wasn’t because of lax gun laws, but rather a failing in the mental health system. But what “loopholes” are like “Swiss cheese” exactly? Would this be private sales? Even in New York private sales are legal, provided both parties have licenses to own the firearms.

But another point we’d like to make on facts. States with tough gun laws may not be the source of illegal guns, but it is hard to know for sure. Illegal guns aren’t exactly tracked the way commercial sales are tracked, so this is somewhat a vague point. It is clear that guns do change hands in New York and Illinois – as there is gun violence. Clearly an illegal black market operates and no amount of gun bans or gun control is going to destroy this black market. But that’s a fact that really pushes the issue – is it Mayors Against Illegal Guns or just Mayors Against Guns, because the way these guys talk it sounds like the latter.

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A law Virginia passed a generation ago to end the states’ reputation as a haven for gun runners is on the verge of being repealed.

The story later offered this passage:

The bills to abolish the one-handgun-per-month law would end one of the legacy laws of former Gov. Doug Wilder. The Democratic governor pushed for it after Virginia became a prime supplier of guns used in crimes in major East Coast cities.

What isn’t noted is whether this was ever actually proven to be true, or did the story note that gun crime had not fallen as a result of the one-gun-per-month restriction, which only seemed to effect law-abiding citizens in Virginia –but of course those are facts that get in the way of anti-gun bias in reporting.

The Terry family alleged that then-U.S. Atty. Dennis K. Burke told them last March that the two weapons came from a store in Texas and were not part of Fast and Furious.

This is just the latest twist we’re hearing, and suggests more of a cover up. Why would the ATF need to lie… unless every part of this debacle was already being covered up?

The article closes:

In fact, the notice says, “(then-U.S. Atty. Dennis K.) Burke actually knew within hours of Brian’s murder that they were purchased from a Phoenix gun shop under ATF surveillance the previous January” — a fact borne out by Burke’s emails.

We just ask again, why isn’t this story leading the nightly news? Where is the mainstream media outrage?

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Meet the fun, the events and the people at the 2012 Annual Meetings & Exhibits in St. Louis, April 12th - 15th! Join fellow patriots and NRA members walking through over seven acres of guns, gear and outfitters and enjoying concerts, seminars and book signings!

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Cam Edwards talks to Howard Nemerov from PJ Media