NRA to Call for Holder's Resignation Over 'Project Gunrunner' Allegations

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Fox News:

Having deflected questions so far regarding how much he knew about a federal project suspected of allowing guns sold in the U.S. to be illegally smuggled to Mexico, Attorney General Eric Holder is under fire again, this time from the National Rifle Association, a conservative group with a loud voice and influence in Washington.

Sources tell Fox News that NRA Executive Director Wayne LaPierre will call for Holder's resignation in a Saturday morning speech at the NRA's annual meeting in Pittsburgh.

LaPierre has criticized Holder's handling of "Project Gunrunner." The program of the Justice Department's Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms is intended to stop the flow of guns to criminals in Mexico, but whistleblowers claim the bureau actually encouraged the illegal sale of firearms to known criminals, then allowed those guns to be smuggled to Mexico and tracked.

The practice of knowingly allowing guns to "walk" -- or be sold to straw buyers and then transferred to criminal organizations -- is against ATF policy. However, at least 15 ATF whistleblowers claim the agency, with the approval of Holder's Department of Justice, encouraged gun stores to make sales to questionable buyers, then failed to interdict the weapons.

According to Mexican authorities, at least 1,800 of those weapons were successfully smuggled into Mexico, where the cartels used them to commit crimes and foment violence.

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Good move by the NRA, their image needed some polishing. Their stance is one of RESPONSIBLE gun ownership. This story is about the the U.S. government bullying gun shop owners to act in an irresponsible manner.

 

Not to sound cliche, I am truly shocked at the dirth of coverage this story is getting from the LSM. Since news of this story broke, I've found one story from CBS and one from the LA Times (shocker). Over the past two years they've given plenty of coverage to Zero, Clinton and Holder blasting U.S. firearm manufacturers over the number of U.S. made guns found in Mexico. Clinton even went so far as to advocate that the Mexican goverment sue U.S. manufacturers.

 

It is one thing for the press to give lax coverage on irresponsible fiscal and ideological policies, but this story smacks of blatant lawlessness by the administration and the press coverage of it is a perfect example of how far into the pocket of the left that the LSM has become.