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El Paso has become an important firearms-smuggling center for the Sinaloa drug cartel, which is engaged in an ongoing battle against its rivals in Juárez and Mexico, according to a new U.S. congressional report on Operation Fast and Furious.
The May 3 report issued by the U.S. Committee on Oversight and Government [...]
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A federal appeals court says illegal immigrants don’t have a right to own firearms under the U.S. Constitution. Emmanuel Huitron-Guizar of Wyoming pleaded guilty to being an illegal immigrant in possession of firearms after his arrest last year. He was ordered held by immigration authorities at the Natrona County Detention Center [...] A 24-year-old man is facing charges and recovering from a bullet wound to the leg after a home break-in near St. Louis. Authorities say a 59-year-old Jefferson County resident was awakened at 2 a.m. Tuesday to find a burglar with a handgun in his home. The homeowner pulled out his own gun and fired [...] Defenders of the Second Amendment couldn’t have asked for a greater gift than the spectacle of unarmed policemen and defenseless citizens standing by helplessly while rampaging [...] The murder of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry in December of 2010 was the precipitating factor that led to the first news story concerning the now infamous Fast and Furious scandal involving the ATF, the DOJ, and their scheme to send American guns to Mexican drug cartels. As that story has developed [...] ATF yesterday released a report on firearms submitted by the government of Mexico for tracing since 2007. One screaming headline referred to the “Vast Majority of Mexican Crime Guns Originate in U.S. New ATF Trace Data Reveals.” If you have been following the issue of Mexican gun traces on this blog, [...] There’s new fallout from the botched gun-running operation Fast and Furious. Fox News has learned the accused ringleader was arrested and released three times — and two of those arrests happened in Phoenix. The most wanted man in the Fast and Furious investigation was caught in the act on a government camera [...] Florida Gov. Rick Scott on Thursday named 17 members to a commission charged with examining the merits of the state’s controversial “Stand Your Ground” self-defense law, The Miami Herald reported. The Task Force on Citizen Safety and Protection was created after the law came under fire as authorities waited over six weeks [...] The Pentagon began flying military helicopters and surveillance planes over the U.S. border with Mexico last month as part of an effort to withdraw all but 300 of the National Guard ground troops who have helped patrol the rugged border since mid-2010. The 19-month deployment of 1,200 National Guard troops on the [...] |
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