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7:06 am
March 11, 2011


OutdoorFrontiers

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I know, and that bothers me. 


The media needs to stick to the facts when telling a story, and if they want to editorialize, they can do that in a special segment of the news.  They used to do that and life was good!


NOW???  YellSurprisedConfused

Steve Huber Editor in Chief/Executive Producer OutdoorFrontiers Multi-Media

8:44 pm
March 10, 2011


transamz9

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It seems that is all they can do any more

4:12 pm
March 5, 2011


OutdoorFrontiers

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If you've watched the news, I'm sure you've heard the reports that 90% of the guns used in crimes in Mexico come from the United States.  This figure always bothered me.  Part of the reason is I don't like the idea of U.S. firearms being used in Mexican crimes, and I just couldn't imagine that many guns being carried from the U.S. into Mexico!


Well, it sees our esteemed media only got "Part" of the equation right.  Here's how the numbers actually work out.


According to the GAO (General Accounting Office) report, some 30,000 firearms were seized from criminals by Mexican authorities in 2008. Of these 30,000 firearms, information pertaining to 7,200 of them (24 percent) was submitted to the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) for tracing. Of these 7,200 guns, only about 4,000 could be traced by the ATF, and of these 4,000, some 3,480 (87 percent) were shown to have come from the United States.


This means that the 87 percent figure relates to the number of weapons submitted by the Mexican government to the ATF that could be successfully traced and not from the total number of weapons seized by Mexican authorities or even from the total number of weapons submitted to the ATF for tracing. In fact, the 3,480 guns positively traced to the United States equals less than 12 percent of the total arms seized in Mexico in 2008 and less than 48 percent of all those submitted by the Mexican government to the ATF for tracing. This means that almost 90 percent of the guns seized in Mexico in 2008 were not traced back to the United States.

Hmmm, it appears that once again, the news media is telling us only part of the story….Yell

Steve Huber Editor in Chief/Executive Producer OutdoorFrontiers Multi-Media
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