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Feds Try & Fail to Set up Private Gun Sellers

When you want to find incompetence, corruption and plain old-fashioned stupidity regarding the handling of firearms, look no further than state, local and federal government agencies. The private sector, on the other hand, remains surprisingly competent and responsible when it comes to dealing in firearms. Look no further than the latest report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) for proof of this. Starting in 2015, the Obama administration launched a daring sting operation in order to take down online gun sellers. The results were extremely telling.

The Obama administration sting began with the mindset that all private sellers of firearms (defined as “normal everyday people”) who are not Federal Firearms License (FFL) holders must be greedy, irresponsible criminals. If government has not issued a person a license to do something, they must not be able to do it competently or safely, right? Just ask the Alaska Board of Barbers and Hairdressers if you doubt this; thousands of lives are probably saved every single year because a board of bureaucrats keeps unlicensed hairdressers from going rogue.

So, the Obama administration attempted to make obviously illegal purchases of firearms from online forums and markets in states where this is allowed. If you did not realize that this is legal in many states, it’s because the media lies about guns every single time. In states where freedom still exists, you can buy or sell a firearm from a complete stranger at a yard sale without any help at all from a federal regulator. It’s no different than selling your lawn mower to a neighbor, which is as it should be.

The GAO attempted to purchase firearms by posing as wife beaters, convicted felons and others who are currently banned from gun ownership. The original plan was to make purchases from 75 different sellers and then issue a report that would prove that private citizens are too stupid, greedy, irresponsible and dangerous to sell firearms.

In 29 attempts to get the seller to illegally ship a firearm, the sellers always refused. Another 27 sellers refused to sell a weapon after learning that the fake federal “buyer” was prohibited from gun ownership. Two sellers took money from investigators but did not actually send them a firearm, figuring they could rip off a “criminal” and they wouldn’t call the police. The end result was that the federal government tried and failed to illegally purchase firearms — every single time. They gave up after 72 failed attempts.

It turns out that private citizens are largely competent, conscientious and law-abiding when it comes to selling their firearms over the internet, even without a government license to do so. Let’s compare that to the sheer incompetence of government agencies, just for fun!

The General Services Administration (GSA) has transferred almost 10,000 surplus military weapons to local police departments since 1999. A grand total of 485 of those weapons went missing. Congress was shocked to learn that the weapons included semi-automatic rifles, uzis and grenade launchers. An incompetent federal bureaucrat somewhere took a look at the town of Cayce, South Carolina (population 13,000) and said, “You know what the police need in Cayce? Two grenade launchers!” Said launchers vanished.

Law enforcement agencies in the San Francisco Bay area lost 944 firearms between 2010 and 2015, including 600 pistols, 251 shotguns, 15 sniper rifles, 27 semi-automatic rifles and 12 grenade launchers. Kate Steinle was killed by an illegal alien using a federal agent’s stolen sidearm. Law enforcement agencies in the Washington, DC area lost 350 firearms between 2011 and 2016.

The Obama administration sold thousands of firearms to straw purchasers with the specific intent of the weapons ending up in the hands of the Sinaloa drug cartel (Operation Fast & Furious). The operation was discovered after Border Patrol agent Brian Terry was murdered by a man using one of the Obama administration’s weapons. One of the Fast & Furious guns even turned up at the Paris nightclub massacre in 2015, in which Muslim refugee terrorists killed 130 people and wounded hundreds more.

The private sector upheld the law in a blind test and federal investigators went 0 for 72 in attempts to catch citizens breaking the law. Government agencies, on the other hand, not only break the law occasionally (Fast & Furious), but display an overall level of incompetence that has no equal in the private sector. Maybe the government should get out of the gun business entirely.

~ American Gun News


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10 Responses

  1. Thank god he is no longer the President he was slowly killing AMERICA.

    1. I disagree, that pos was QUICKLY killing America

  2. These are dark times in America I don’t trust any politician, I know there are good ones, but the bad seem to out number the good and are in control. It’s not to late to turn our lives around and seek God’s help.

  3. Well I guess Obama was not as smart as he thought he was I my self think he’s an idiot jihad loving greedy crooked so called man. This goes to show you that people who sell guns do stand by the law when it comes to selling guns. I am quite sure the amount of guns in C

  4. I was not aware that a Fast & Furious weapon was involved at the Paris night club terrorist attack. I guess the fake “news” media carried water for the Muslim Usurper and the Clinton Crime Cartel and covered for them as usual.

  5. IT IS SAD A PRESIDENT WHO HAS BROKEN MORE LAWS THAN SOME OF OUR WORST CRIMINALS AND THE JUSTICE DEPT AND FBI PRAISE THE MAN.BUT WILL NOT DO THE JOB THAT THEY WERE SWORN TO DO. HALF AND HALF TOOK AN OATH WHEN HE TOOK OFFICE HE INSTRUCTED LAW ENFORCEMENT TO DIS REGUARD OUR LAWS BUT THAN HE LIED ABOUT EVERY THING ELSE.. IRS WAS TO KEEP GOP FROM FORMING 501C AND SPY IN THE BACKERS. DIRTY AND ILLEGAL. SPYING ON TRUMP USING INFORMATION PAID FOR BY HILLERY AND dnc IS ILLEGAL AND DIRTY. FAST AND FOURIOUS SOLD GUNS TO CRIMINALS, .ILLEGALS, iNCOMPANCE IN GOVERMENT AND IGNORANCE SHUT DOWN THE OPERATION AS A COMPLETE JOKE. YET 200 TO 900 PEOPLE IN MEXICO.ARE MISSING AND THOUGHT TO BE BURRIED BY THE DRUG CARTELLS THAT BOUGHT THE GUNS.. HOLDER WAS GIVEN A FREE PASS FOR SCREWING UP AND ANY WRONG DOING OR MURDERS BECAUSE OF HIS ILLEGAL SALES. HISTORY WILL SHOW THIS WAS THE WORST PRESIDENT IN THE HISTORY OF THE USA. MORE DEBT THAN ALL PRESIDENTS COMBINED IN THE USA. REVERSED AND CREATED MORE RACALE PROBLEMS. HIRED A CZAR FOR RACE PROBLEMS THAT OWED MILLIONS IN BACK TAXES. DID NOT CARE ABOUT LAWS. I AM GLAD TO SEE WE THE PEOPLE HAVE ELECTED A MAN TO DO THE JOB AND ECONOMY, JOBS, STOCK MARKET, GNP HAVE ALL IMPROVED NOW. NO MORE LIES BY A INCOMPENT NO NOTHING.. EVEN A 12 YEAR OLD KNOWS WHAT A RED LINE IN THE SAND IS. NOT HALF AND HALF. HIS CHANGES WHEN EVER HE FEELS LIKE IT.

  6. It seams the government is worse than a normal person at keeping track of firearms .
    And then all the weapons are shipped by rail and sit in sidings in city’s like Chicago unguarded where it is easy to steal them .

  7. So again why is Obama not in jail for treason and fraud and a whole list of crimes against America? That sorry jerk and all his underlings need to be stripped of every ill gotten dollar they stole and prosecuted for murder and treason. He supported everything criminal. Yet we still see his stupid ugly face cavorting around like a king. I wish he was stripped of everything he stole from this nation and sent to a place where no one ever saw him again.

  8. More reason to Celebrate Obama Did Not finish his Version of Hope And Change.

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