{"id":4161,"date":"2011-07-12T01:22:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-12T01:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2011\/07\/12\/rep-lamar-smith-on-multi-rifle\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:15:26","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:15:26","slug":"rep-lamar-smith-on-multi-rifle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=4161","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Lamar Smith On Multi-Rifle Reporting Requirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:17291,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/lamarsmith.house.gov\\\/News\\\/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=251109&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lamarsmith.house.gov\/News\/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=251109\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX), the Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee,<\/a> is not pleased with the new Department of Justice\/Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives requirement that FFL&#8217;s in the Southwest must report multiple sales of certain semi-automatic rifles.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Smith: Administration\u2019s Gun Restrictions Target Border State Citizens<br \/>\nReporting Requirement Won\u2019t Prevent Gun Trafficking,<\/p>\n<p>Washington, Jul 11 &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas) today criticized the Obama administration\u2019s decision to impose new reporting requirements for gun sales in states along the U.S.-Mexico Border.<\/p>\n<p>Chairman Smith:  \u201cToday\u2019s announcement follows months of controversy over the ATF\u2019s Fast and Furious program that allowed guns to be trafficked into Mexico without any way of preventing the guns from being used for illegal activity.  One of the guns was used in the shooting death of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry.  <b>It is the height of hypocrisy for the Obama administration to restrict the gun rights of border state citizens, when the administration itself knowingly and intentionally allowed guns to be trafficked into Mexico.<br \/>\n<\/b><br \/>\n<b>\u201cLimiting the second amendment rights of law abiding citizens is not going to solve the problem of guns being trafficked into Mexico. An additional reporting requirement won\u2019t stop drug cartels from getting weapons.<\/b>  This rule unfairly punishes citizens in Border States who have the right to purchase firearms to protect themselves and their families from dangerous drug traffickers and human smugglers.   <\/p>\n<p>\u201cA recent GAO report found that only 44% of the Southwest border is under operational control of the Border Patrol.  Forty-four percent is a failing grade. If the Obama administration is serious about preventing guns from being trafficked to Mexico, they simply need to secure the Southwest border, not restrict the rights of law-abiding citizens.\u201d<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX), the Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, is not pleased with the new Department of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3696,4118],"class_list":["post-4161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-multi-long-gun-reporting-requirement","tag-rep-lamar-smith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6960,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4161\/revisions\/6960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}