Gun news in the news.....

There is a lot of “gun news” in the news of late, have you noticed?

Last week I wrote about the Baltimore Mayoral Candidate that was calling for a $1.00 tax on each bullet purchased in his town….what a mindset…today I was reading some of the comments from the citizenry about his proposal.  Needless to say the citizens are pert near dumbfounded at the suggestion they see as dumb, no matter which way you look at it.

Canada is in the news again…there is promise to scrap their long-gun registry this fall.  The quote that interests me on one level is this, as written in the Canadian National Post , “There was no convincing explanation as to how a database of serial numbers and street addresses was supposed to improve public safety.”  Haven’t we been saying the same common sense thing for years, ourselves? Tell that to the California Democrat Mike Feuer!  MP Candice Hoeppner, the author of the quote, has been driving this recall of the Canadian registry for years now and had some other truthful observations to comment about as well, saying, “the registry proved to be expensive and error prone, it drove a wedge between police and lawful firearms owners,” and then this gem of a quote, “criminals who kill people with guns generally are using illegal handguns smuggled in from the …get this…the UNITED STATES.” 

So, on another level I am most interested in this bullet she just shot at us!  Handguns smuggled in from the United States?  Lets see what our ATF has to say about that?  Is MP Candice Hoeppner being a clandestine whistleblower?  Do we need to start another investigation…Is there another Darrell Issa in the house?  

So, the third hearing of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and Explosive’s is coming up shortly, tomorrow, at 10 in the morning.  The focus is going to be the accounts of the ATF agents based in Mexico.  The Agents being questioned are prominent enough to suggest this will be a blockbuster event, according to a Seattle paper.  There is no question that this is a blockbuster event!

Human Events has written in much stronger language, that “all H_ _ _ _is about to explode" because it is Obama’s Justice Department that started this scandal.  The Obama government funded the $80 million dollar program.  Melson, the head of the ATF was expected to resign and run, tail between legs style, but he isn’t, choosing rather to whistleblow himself, and in that it is coming to light that there are documents withheld from Congress in a massive cover-up.  Attorney General Eric Holder is on the hot seat as a result, and just may be the next one who is expected to resign, tail between the legs style.  Wonder if he, too, will turn into a whistleblower……?