Posted January 12, 2016 5:38 pm by Comments

By Bob Owens

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Very early in Barack Obama’s Presidency, he and his Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, along with his unscrupulous gun-running Attorney General Eric Holder, attempted to manufacture the so-called “90-percent lie.”

They swore, repeatedly and in public, that 90% of the firearms being recovered in Mexico came from unscrupulous firearms dealers in the United States.

That claim was an abject an intentional lie.

The myth that legal guns sales in the United States are responsible for Mexican drug cartel violence took another serious blow last week when an ATF official testified in Congress that only eight percent of weapons recovered in Mexico came through licensed U.S. gun dealers.

This figure is far lower than the 90 percent claim made previously as an appeal to reinstate ineffective gun laws that expired in 2004. The claim — still active among the less informed or serially dishonest — officially became myth during congressional testimony last week when Bill McMahon, deputy assistant director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, revealed the eight percent figure, how it was calculated, and where the 90 percent myth arose from.

Of the 100,000 weapons recovered by Mexican authorities, only 18,000 were determined to have been manufactured, sold, or imported …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

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