Early in the Obama Administration, I predicted that the President and his minions would use the carnage in Mexico as an excuse – a veritable “Reichstag Fire”, if you will – to ratchet up US “gun control” efforts.

As part of my prediction, I noted that it was highly unlikely that Mexican narcotraficantes, with access to generations worth of guerrilla-surplus weaponry and Mexican Army weapons, not to mention all the swag that Narcopesos could buy on the international arms market – full-automatic military stuff – not the neutered, semi-auto stuff you could buy for much more money at gun shows in the US, and that as a result the Administration and the gun grabbers who want to use Mexico as a pretext more “gun control” were likely lying about the guns reaching Mexico from the US.

No big surprise that I’ve been proven right on that last bit:

You’ve heard this shocking “fact” before — on TV and radio, in newspapers, on the Internet and from the highest politicians in the land: 90 percent of the weapons used to commit crimes in Mexico come from the United States.– Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said it to reporters on a flight to Mexico City.

— CBS newsman Bob Schieffer referred to it while interviewing President Obama.

— California Sen. Dianne Feinstein said at a Senate hearing: “It is unacceptable to have 90 percent of the guns that are picked up in Mexico and used to shoot judges, police officers and mayors … come from the United States.”

— William Hoover, assistant director for field operations at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, testified in the House of Representatives that “there is more than enough evidence to indicate that over 90 percent of the firearms that have either been recovered in, or interdicted in transport to Mexico, originated from various sources within the United States.”

There’s just one problem with the 90 percent “statistic” and it’s a big one:

It’s just not true.

Readthe whole, damning thing.

Hope and Change, Obama style; they Hope you’ll be gullible enough to Change the Constitution to suit their agenda.

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