NRA's Wayne Lapierre: Old Dog, Old Tricks
To quote Lawrence O'Donnell from his show back in February, Wayne LaPierre is "Washington's lobbyist in favor of murderers' rights, always to use the gun of their choice." There is no better summary of a man who ensures his $1.27 million salary every year by being a paid serial liar in defense of arms dealers, which groups such as the Violence Policy Center have made clear again and again.
So it should be no surprise that when faced with the rights of Americans to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, or those of Mexican Drug Cartels, he comes down squarely on the side of the latter, as pointed out by Media Matters:
Wayne LaPierre, executive vice president of the National Rifle Association (NRA), has been on a media blitz trying to defend an NRA lawsuit that attempts to block an executive rule aimed at keeping guns out of the hands of cartels and criminals. The new rule would require gun stores along the border with Mexico to report to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) when a person purchases multiple long guns, such as the cartel favorite AK-47.
ATF agent and Fast and Furious whistleblower Peter Forcelli, whom the NRA has previously cited as an expert on tactics, disagrees with LaPierre. Forcelli told Political Correction that the "vast majority of ATF agents support the reporting requirement, because they know how it works."
Of course it works. It is common sense that it would work, except manufacturing doubt--from the oil companies to the tobacco pushers to the gun runners--is what these guys do. Common sense and science are their enemies. They might save a few lives, but then LaPierre might only make $1.1 million per annum.
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who gets killed as long his paycheck is fat.
I would never consider joining an organization that would have Wayne LaPierre as an executive, or spokesperson.
LaPierre also has ties to ALEC:
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Wa...
'Talk to the hand'
Wayne LaPierre is an ass, but I see no reason to believe that the change would be effective in stemming the violence in Mexico. First, the cartels clearly have the existing infrastructure to hire more straw purchasers or make their purchases north of the zone with the reporting requirements. It's a tax on their gun-running, but likely not a large one.
However, there's a second, scarier way in which it would likely not be effective. The cartels are capable of developing the ability to manufacture AK-47s and other guns in quantity, assuming they do not already possess it. AK-47s are (deliberately) very easy to make, and the cost of the relevant tooling and equipment is low and dropping. They already build subs, why not guns? If I ran a cartel, I would have started building the capability to supply my own weapons as soon as this proposal hit the news, if not long before. I find this probability frightening, because once they've got a gun factory, it's not hard to ramp production *WAY* up -- far faster and far farther than they can ramp up a smuggling network. And they can start manufacturing heavier weapons as well -- the technical distance between an AK-47 and an M-2 is relatively small.
The ATF's entire approach to gun control is predicated on the assumption that almost all guns are made in factories, and the ones that aren't are either things like zipguns or eye-wateringly expensive custom weapons unlikely to make their way into the hands of habitual criminals. The Mexican cartels can certainly break that assumption.
The US gun dealers and manufactures have one helluva market from south of the border , there is no debating that . The NRA is a big big problem for this country and for Mexico too .Greedy low life without conscience and a lot of paranoid cowards .
Insanity , it is what it is , there is no understanding it .
What bugs me about all the reporting I see on stuff like this is the repeated and incorrect claim that fully-automatic weapons like the AK-47 are actually available for purchase. US citizens havent been able to purchse automatic weapons without obtaining a license from the BATF since the 1930s. Legally transferring ownership of an automatic weapon is pretty difficult, too. Anything a straw buyer can get in the US is a semi-auto. A semi-auto AK-47 knock-off is an ugly hunting rifle that can't actually hit anything, not an assault weapon.
I am told that the modifications required to make a semi-auto civilian AK-47 into a select-fire weapon are not arduous. I have never attempted this nor gone out of my way to find out how, so I am not sure how true that really is.
this ash whole and his organization. Thank You!
The most popular is the WASR 10, this is not a "knock-off ... ugly hunting rifle that can't actually hit anything"
http://www.impactguns.com/romanian-wasr-10-hi...
It is a Romanian made AK variant that fires 7.62 rounds that can be transformed into a full auto with a machine shop and some parts order on the internet.
BUT the rifle, outside of the hand of high trained soldiers, is more deadly as a semi-automatic.
I get bugged by people who put up comments without taking the time to do the basic research to know that AK 47 is an accepted shorthand for any AK variant, which consequently are favored by the cartels for murdering lots of people.
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