Tuesday, March 31, 2009  Mike Yon falls for the Mexican Gun
Canard... Or is it Mexi-Canard?  Alas, the wonderful reporter
Mike Yon says he trusts nobody, but prints only the very
deceptive version of one side.  Including the standard party
line, "Weapons sources typically include secondary markets, such
as gun shows and flea markets since—depending on State law—the
private sale of firearms at those venues often does not require
background checks prior to the sale or record keeping."
Complete with the usual zero examples.  (Messrs. Hoover and
Placido might have said exactly the same thing about the cars
and airplanes used in the drug trade, too. Where's the OUTRAGE
(tm) over that?  Close the car classified loophole!!!)  And the
most interesting thing they left out is a simple number- how
many guns were seized?  Here's how the figures they provide are
silly- "submitted for tracing". In ordered to be accepted for an
ATFE trace, a gun submitted from outside the US must have some
indication of lawful sale or prod