Obama Administration Caught In Another Lie on Mexican Gun Statistics

Recently, there has been much dialogue on the drug violence in Mexico knocking on the U.S. door. Obama’s administration has tried, as it always does, to place the blame for this violence on the American gun laws. They’ve put out, on various occasions, that 90% of the guns used in the violence in Mexico are purchased in the U.S. Hillary, California Sen. Dianne Feinstein, William Hoover, assistant director for field operations at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and others have made this proclamation.

The problem??? Well, it’s just not true. In fact, it’s not even close. In fact, it’s a blatant lie, fabricated to purposely mislead the American public.

Here is the truth, because I know you won’t get it from the government. Only 17% of the weapons recovered at Mexican crime scenes have been traced back to America. In other words, 83 percent of the guns found at crime scenes in Mexico could not be traced to the U.S.

Fox News, reported today that Ed Head, a firearms instructor in Arizona who spent 24 years with the U.S. Border Patrol, recently displayed an array of weapons considered "assault rifles" that are similar to those recovered in Mexico, but are unavailable for sale in the U.S.

"These kinds of guns -- the auto versions of these guns -- they are not coming from El Paso," he said. "They are coming from other sources. They are brought in from Guatemala. They are brought in from places like China. They are being diverted from the military. But you don't get these guns from the U.S."

Some guns, he said, "are legitimately shipped to the government of Mexico, by Colt, for example, in the United States. They are approved by the U.S. government for use by the Mexican military service. The guns end up in Mexico that way -- the fully auto versions -- they are not smuggled in across the river."

Many of the fully automatic weapons that have been seized in Mexico cannot be found in the U.S., but they are not uncommon in the Third World.

The Mexican government said it has seized 2,239 grenades in the last two years -- but those grenades and the rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) are unavailable in U.S. gun shops. The ones used in an attack on the U.S. Consulate in Monterrey in October and a TV station in January were made in South Korea. Almost 70 similar grenades were seized in February in the bottom of a truck entering Mexico from Guatemala.

"Most of these weapons are being smuggled from Central American countries or by sea, eluding U.S. and Mexican monitors who are focused on the smuggling of semi-automatic and conventional weapons purchased from dealers in the U.S. border states of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California," according to a report in the Los Angeles Times.

It’s terrible that our government leaders would bold face lie to us in order to advance their agenda; an agenda that is clearly at odds with our nation’s constitution.