{"id":1210,"date":"2011-11-03T12:22:50","date_gmt":"2011-11-03T19:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/?p=1210"},"modified":"2011-11-03T12:26:05","modified_gmt":"2011-11-03T19:26:05","slug":"feinstein-perhaps-mistakes-were-made-in-fast-and-furious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/feinstein-perhaps-mistakes-were-made-in-fast-and-furious\/","title":{"rendered":"Feinstein: &#8216;Perhaps Mistakes Were Made&#8217; in Fast and Furious, Makes Case for Gun Registration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here it is folks. I warned this was coming even though F&#038;F is complete failure. Leave it to a progressive to still seek a way to go after guns. This isn&#8217;t over by a long shot. You can be sure you will hear more corrupt politicians looking to go after gun owners and manufactures. As things heat up in the US enabled by the corrupt they will look to disarm the people&#8230; this is the first step taken by all tyrannical dictatorships.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"360\" height=\"213\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/mjfyu0rkAxM?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Feinstein Uses &#8216;Fast and Furious&#8217; to Make Case for National Gun Registration<br \/>\n(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnsnews.com\/news\/article\/feinstein-uses-fast-and-furious-make-case-national-gun-registration\">CNSNews.com<\/a>) \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Making a case for national gun registration, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) said \u00e2\u20ac\u0153perhaps mistakes were made\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in the botched gun-walking program known as Fast and Furious, but she said trying to assign blame misses the larger problem.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153This is a deep concern for me. I know others disagree, but we have very lax laws when it comes to guns,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Feinstein, an advocate of gun control,  said during Tuesday&#8217;s hearing of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153My concern, Mr. Chairman, is that there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been a lot said about Fast and Furious, and perhaps mistakes were made,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Feinstein said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153But I think this hunt for blame doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t really speak about the problem. And the problem is, anybody can walk in and buy anything.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>In Operation Fast and Furious, a Justice Department program that began in September 2009, law enforcement knowingly allowed about 2,000 U.S. guns to flow to Mexican drug cartels, with the intent of tracking the weapons and making arrests. However, law enforcement lost track of most of the weapons. The program was halted in December 2010 after two weapons from the program were found at the murder scene of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry.<\/p>\n<p>Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer, head of the Justice Department\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s criminal division, revealed Monday that he knew about Operation Fast and Furious going back to April 2010, but did not inform Attorney General Eric Holder about the matter.<\/p>\n<p>Feinstein asked Breuer about the number of U.S. guns in Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153From my understanding, 94,000 weapons have been recovered in the last five years in Mexico. Those are just the ones recovered, Senator,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Breuer said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Of the 94,000 weapons that have been recovered from Mexico, 64,000 of those are traced to the United States. We have to do something to prevent criminals from getting those guns,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Feinstein said.<\/p>\n<p>Then she asked Breuer, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Do you believe that if there were some form of registration when you purchase these firearms that would make a difference?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I do, Senator,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Breuer said, adding that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153information is the tool we need to challenge the people that are committing this crime.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here it is folks. I warned this was coming even though F&#038;F is complete failure. Leave it to a progressive to still seek a way to go after guns. This isn&#8217;t over by a long&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[1075,557,14],"tags":[1478,275,1740,1741,1742],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}