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Politico reports:
Bloomberg brought a little muscle to the gun show.
In a move reaching far beyond the New York City mayor’s turf, Bloomberg sent private, undercover investigators to an Arizona gun show. And Bloomberg says his agents found sellers peddling their wares even after buyers said they likely wouldn’t pass a background check.
The sort-of sting operation is Bloomberg’s latest tack in pushing for more and better background checks in the wake of the Tucson shooting.
“We have demonstrated how easy it is for anyone to buy a semi-automatic handgun and a high capacity magazine, no questions asked,” he said.
Bloomberg unveiled a series of videos Monday, shot at the Jan. 23 Crossroads of the West gun show in Phoenix. The videos were shot by undercover investigators working for a private company, Kroll Associates.
In one video, a man trying to buy a gun tells the dealer he probably couldn’t pass a background check. The dealer, undeterred, sells the man a gun anyway.
This isn’t the first time the Bloomberg administration has hired P.I.s to bolster the gun control push. Using city money, he has dispatched Kroll investigators to gun shows in other states, to determine whether dealers would sell guns to people knowing their backgrounds were questionable.
excellent work Mayor
Go Bloomberg! Got to love this guy. He is worth more than $15 billion, so he does not give a shit about special interests. Why does he care about the NRA? He has unlimited resources to fight them in elections. Bloomberg is the NRA’s worst nightmare.
Wow. So when Arizona steps in to try to do the work the fed isn’t doing in their own state they’re all racist bigots, but when a CITY mayor steps into another STATE to do the work they’re not doing he’s a hero? NOT. Bloomberg is not the NRA’s worst nightmare, he’s a megalomaniac who thinks rules don’t apply to him. HE is his own special interest.
Regardless of what he found, he overstepped his bounds.
JeninCT,
What exactly is AZ doing that the Fed Govt is not doing? I am not sure I get that one.
By the way enforcement on illegal immigration has never been higher since Obama took office. And how has that illegal immigrant law worked out in AZ? I guess it did exactly what it was suppose to do, which was to get that moron Jan Brewer elected.
“Deportation of illegal immigrants increases under Obama administration”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/25/AR2010072501790.html
“Obama as border cop: He’s deported record numbers of illegal immigrants”
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2010/0812/Obama-as-border-cop-He-s-deported-record-numbers-of-illegal-immigrants
Regardless of Obama’s very good record on immigration and border security, I personally do not think illegal immigration is even a problem in the U.S. I think the illegal workforce is a very important and strong economic force in this country, that benefits the U.S. greatly.
So I do not equate the non-enforcement of gun laws with illegals. Guns are a big problem, particularly when they are illegally bought at these gun shows in states like AZ and then brought to big cities like NY and used to kill people. Illegals don’t kill people, they help build our economy.
We need more Bloombergs to fight against the crazies like yourself.
By the way, which “rules don’t apply” to Bloomberg? Not sure I understand that comment.
What I want to know is why is this now news? I’ve known about this for years, just as I’ve known for many months that the Mexican drug cartels were buying their guns at gun shops and gun shows without background checks in the southwest. Doesn’t anyone on the East Coast pay any attention?
The fact of the matter is that the US supplies all the guns the cartels want so they can kill agents and anyone else who gets in their way…and there’s not one single law to prevent this travesty. Heck, our own ag subsidy laws via NAFTA encourage illegal immigration. See the documentary Food Inc to understand how much of a mess we’ve made of Mexican lives and our own immigration problems.
The sad thing is that all this things are well known facts. Except perhaps the fact that 80% of gun owners support tough background checks.
This last point deserves a maximum of publicity. The NRA propaganda wants to make believe that gun owners want no restrictions of any kind of gun ownership.
I gotta agree with JeninCT on this one. Bloomberg is an egomanical blowhard who needs to learn when to MYOB.
Anyone whose ever been to a gun show in any state knows that the vendors play hard and fast with the rules. Its not a surprise to law enforcement; we’ve filmed illegal purchases and busted the buyer the minute they left the site, and used the footage of several illegal buys to bust vendors after the show.
While I’m uncomfortable with Bloomberg using public funds for this expedition, it is a risk to New York City residents if people can get guns illegally as was depicted in the videos. If I can buy a gun in Phoenix when I know I can’t pass a background check and can easily hop on a bus to NYC, then NYC residents are put in danger. Granted this should of been done by the Federal government since its clearly across state lines.