The Violence Coverage Middle (VPC) has set its sights on banning .50 BMG rifles because the anti-Second Modification group’s newest stroll down “What the hell are they speaking about?” lane. In an try and preface the convoluted nature of this story, I’ve to level out VPC’s historic lack of credibility, as this vapid group is called one of many oldest and most excessive anti-gun organizations in American historical past.
The family tree of VPC’s newest motion borrows from the group’s 2022 marketing campaign to affect the Biden administration to reclassify Glocks and hundreds of thousands of different handguns as machineguns. Their logic was based mostly on criminals having illegally transformed handguns to fireplace absolutely automated in comparatively remoted circumstances. Biden was seemingly daydreaming about early fowl specials and his 4 PM pre-bedtime snack pack after they requested, however it appears even that anti-gun mattress wetter thought twice a few proposal that might have successfully banned all handguns.
That was VPC’s plan your entire time, and I’ll give them credit score for attempting to move it off on a man who couldn’t inform the distinction between a machinegun and his son’s crack pipe. However now, these clown footwear have discovered a method to recycle the trouble and substitute handguns with .50 BMG rifles. Their purpose is to reclassify them underneath the NFA and ban future manufacturing and sale to civilians, just like how the Hughes Modification of the Firearm Homeowners Safety Act did the identical to machineguns manufactured after Could 21, 1986.
“It’s indeniable that almost all of firearms recovered in Mexico, and particularly from Mexican organized legal organizations, originate in the US,” reads the opening assertion in VPC’s criminally silly propaganda piece.
To start with, cartel crime south of the border is a Mexico downside, and the tougher that nation tries to move the buck off on American gun makers, the extra its management’s desperation to cowl up its personal corruption and ineptness is revealed. Second, the abject dishonesty on show presently within the U.S. Supreme Court docket case, Smith & Wesson Manufacturers, Inc. v. Estados Unidos Mexicanos, was lately uncovered by former ATF agent and writer of The Unarmed Reality, John Dodson, who labored on the border for the final twelve years of his profession, dealing particularly with firearms trafficking.
“Yearly, any 12-month interval since 2010 till the day that I retired in 2023, no matter 12-month interval you wish to run, the Mexican authorities accounts for about 70 to 75% of the crime weapons recovered in Mexico. And these are direct purchases by the Mexican authorities, or government-to-government gross sales, from the U.S. authorities to Mexico. The issue is these weapons are thought-about U.S.-source, and ATF doesn’t delineate, doesn’t take these out of the numbers after they converse to Congress or after they launch the data. They depend all of them as U.S.-source firearms, and so the American civilian firearms market is left holding the bag and blamed for the cartel violence in Mexico,” Dodson advised Glen Beck in a current interview.
Unable to understand the extent of deception at play, Beck asks Dodson for clarification.
“So Mexico is shopping for this from us, and I assume that these weapons are presupposed to go to the Mexican authorities to combat cartels. Are these weapons going into the palms of the cartels?” Beck asks.
“Sure, 100%,” Dodson responds.
A extra insidious aspect of this rip-off comes from Dodson’s clarification of how the Mexican authorities makes use of American tax {dollars} to buy these firearms.
“The Mexican authorities says, ‘Properly, we’d like assist preventing the cartels,’ so we give them cash to buy tools and weapons; they purchase these weapons instantly from producers,” Dodson explains earlier than revealing that half of the firearms are “diverted into the black market,” and into the palms of cartel members.
This clarification greater than invalidates Mexico’s try at a $10 Billion cash seize meant to cripple the U.S. firearm trade, seemingly a scheme in collusion with treasonous leftist teams inside America itself. Whether or not VPC is a celebration to the rip-off or just helpful idiots deployed to exploit it for all the things it’s value is irrelevant. The very fact is that they toe the road anyway as a part of a disarmament agenda that would sooner or later enslave them as properly. Who desires to inform these instruments there’s no seat on the desk with their identify on it?
“By far probably the most highly effective and lethal innovation accessible within the civilian market as we speak is the 50 caliber anti-armor sniper rifle,” the propaganda piece reads masquerading as a examine.
2023 crime information demonstrates that out of 17,840 homicide victims, rifles are utilized in lower than 3% of these cases. If something about how few .50 BMG rifles are offered relative to the general variety of rifles, you’d be as entertained as I’m. In reality, .50 BMG rifles have solely been utilized in 18 crimes in your entire historical past of the US, and the spherical has been accessible for civilian use for over 100 years.
VPC’s “examine” is packed filled with deception, however detailing all of it right here would take too lengthy and certain trigger me to succeed in a stage of abrasiveness that might trigger my editor to self-medicate. I haven’t even gotten into the truth that lots of the firearms utilized by cartels come from different international locations and that the ATF can solely hint these of U.S.-source to start with. What can be the purpose of banning civilian gross sales of .50 BMG rifles anyway? With the overwhelming majority of U.S.-source firearms reaching cartels by way of reliable Mexican authorities purchases from gun producers, how would banning purchases by law-abiding Individuals make us any safer? If something, it could make us a softer goal. Maybe we now have this all unsuitable, and the individuals we ought to be reducing off is the federal government of Mexico itself.
