The House Asked Obama for AWB!!

[50CalRay]

On Friday the House consisting of both Republicans and Democrats asked Obama for a ban on imported Semi-auto rifles. This ban is focused on lowering the arms flowing into Mexico. This is watered down an Assault Weapon Ban plain and simple. Just review the 1994 AWB...it banned the importation and manufacturing of semi-auto rifles!

We need to start right now letting our reps know just where we stand on this issue people! If they want to start with a ban on imported rifles to Mexico, try starting with South America. Huge Chavez bought 300,000 Ak47 for his 100,000 strong army. Then don't forget about the old 100,000 rifles he is replacing. So he's sitting on 300,000 true assault rifles letting them go to the highest bid. And the Mexican drug cartels are pulling in 39 billion dollars a year.

Obama Urged to Do More to Stop Flow of Guns to Mexico
Caracas,
Monday
June 29,2009

WASHINGTON – Democrats and Republicans in the House of Representatives asked President Barack Obama on Friday for an improved strategy against the arms traffic to Mexico, beginning with the reinstatement of a ban on U.S. imports of assault weapons

In a letter sent Friday, the chairman of the House Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, Rep. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.), and other lawmakers asked that efforts be made to step up the fight against the arms trade that fuels drug-cartel violence blamed for more than 10,000 deaths in Mexico over the past 2 1/2 years.

A ban on U.S. imports of assault weapons that was instituted under President George H.W. Bush and continued under the Clinton administration was quietly abandoned by George W. Bush, the letter pointed out.

Engel said the United States should have launched a strategy against arms trafficking on Oct. 22, 2007, the same date that Washington and Mexico City announced the Merida Initiative against drug trafficking and organized crime in Mexico and Central America.

In the missive, the lawmakers quoted a recent report from the General Accountability Office pointing out the problems facing the U.S. administration in combating the illegal drug trade.

The GAO report said, among other things, that 93 percent of arms traced and confiscated in Mexico in fiscal year 2008 came from the United States.

Some 19 percent of the arms confiscated in Mexico between 2004 and 2008 were made in third countries, imported into the United States and later sent to Mexico, Engel said.

Latin American Herald Tribune - Obama Urged to Do More to Stop Flow of Guns to Mexico