"Here's the real
answer as to gun control," Issa said on ABC's
"This Week": "We have email from people involved
in this that are talking about using what they're
finding here to support the — basically assault
weapons — ban or greater reporting."
Issa was asked
about the possible connection after comments he
made at an NRA convention. "Could it be," he said
on NRA News' "Cam & Company" program, "that
what they really were thinking of was in fact to
use this walking of guns in order to promote an
assault weapons ban? Many think so. And they
haven't come up with an explanation that would
cause any of us not to agree."
Perhaps the
answer is in the documents that Holder and Obama
are risking much to hide. As we observed recently,
the way Fast and Furious, the government's
gun-running operation, was executed made no sense
unless its intended purpose was to facilitate
violence with U.S. weapons in the interests of
pursuing the administration's gun-control agenda.
As Issa noted on
"This Week," the Department of Justice announced
on April 25, 2011, "right in the middle of the
scandal," that it was requiring some 8,500 gun
stores in Arizona, California, Texas and New
Mexico to report individual purchases of multiple
rifles of greater than .22 caliber by law-abiding
American citizens to the ATF because such guns are
"frequently recovered at violent crime scenes near
the Southwest border."
Like the
ATF-supplied guns found next to the body of Brian
Terry?
Coincidence? We think not. On July 14, 2010, roughly five months before Agent Terry's murder, ATF Field Ops Assistant Director Mark Chait emailed Bill Newell, ATF's Phoenix special agent in charge of Fast and Furious. "Bill," the email read, "can you see if these guns were all purchased from the same (licensed gun dealer) and at one time? We are looking at anecdotal cases to support a demand letter on long gun sales. Thanks."