Dems Call for More Gun Control in Light of Operation Fast and Furious

6/30/2011
Katie Pavlich

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In the June Issue of Townhall Magazine http://magazine.townhall.com/featured I wrote Misfire: Obama's Scandalous Secret Gun Control Agenda, http://townhall.com/tipsheet/chrisfield ... rol_agenda about how Operation Fast and Furious would result in calls for more gun control and I questioned whether officials in the Obama Justice Department purposely allowed thousands of semi-automatic weapons to flow into the hands of dangerous drug cartels in order to meet President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder’s goal of re-instating the ban on assault rifles and other forms of harsh gun control.

During an Oversight Committee hearing on June 15, Democrat Rep. Elijah Cummings stated the following: “No legitimate examination of this issue will be complete without analyzing our nation’s gun laws, which allow tens of thousands of assault weapons to flood into Mexico from the United States every year, including fifty caliber sniper rifles, multiple AK variants and scores of others. When Mexican President Calderon addressed Congress in May, he pleaded for us to stop fueling a full-scale drug war with military-grade assault rifles.â€