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Operation of 2,000 automatic weapons going into mexico. runs the atf. bill: the guy kenneth melson looks like the head of the atf is done. acting head. bill: not going to be acting anymore. is he going to be out of there. even during the bush administration, into the obama administration the nra and gun groups have objected to everybody they have wanted to nominate going back to 2006 to head the aff. nobody is good enough for the nra. they have been lobbing all these senators and they can t get anybody. they don t have a real head to the atf. bill: you are saying that melson didn t know what he was doing. i am saying maybe they couldn t get proper personnel. bill: melson is going to take the fall. holder has got to explain this situation because he is the top guy here. we need to know what he know and what he didn t know. bill: you agree with that? we should know what did he know and when did he know it just like obama can holder know everything that s going on in ....
Bill the most successful gun control measure passed, i carried that in the house of representatives, and they said they are entitled to buy whatever gun they want. people think that. even a bazuka. shepard: people from my part of the country, down south, are scared of people from my new part of the country because they want to limit them and they do not understand why, and most of them, what they want to do is hunt ducks and deer on the weekend and they love it. guest: this is a problem and this is hardly just a problem in the gun area. the groups try to juice people up so they will send money. they will do this and the next thing they will take away the hunting rifle your uncle willie gave you when you are 14 and there is no intent so they scare people. and as i said that is not limited to the gun groups. lots of people do that these days. but, it s just not true. there is, look, here is somebody, i m an advocate of gun control, i probably have passed the major gun control pieces of ....
This issue, consider that the entire time barack obama has been president, we have not had anybody running the atf. as you saw there on the little title card in the video, ken melson, the jack-booted goon, he is the deputy director of the atf. who is he deputy to? nobody. he is the acting head of the agency. he s the acting head of the agency as well because the senate will not confirm anybody other than an acting director. the senate won t confirm anybody to the full-time job. why won t the senate confirm anybody? well, the nra naturally is opposed, and other gun groups don t even bother opposing the specific nominee to run this agency. they actually just want to abolish the entire agency. no, we want to ban the organization altogether. it has no constitutional warrant. it was established by executive order by the anti-second amendment richard nixon administration. the antisecond amendment ....
Focused grassroots groups like shane belanger s. the right to carry, openly as well as concealed, every day. they want guns in every corner of american society. reporter: dennis henigan is the vice president of the brady center to prevent gun violence. he says the little gun groups and spontaneous meet-ups mark a new challenge to gun control efforts and to the nra. this is the virginia citizens defense league. they re not happy with the nra. they re the 800-pound gorilla. people are used to the name nra. and those not really into gun rights don t know better. and they think it s the only real organization out there. reporter: the long-simmeri i tensions between the nra behemoth and local gun groups exploded into nasty fight this spring, when the nra muscled congress into exempting it and it alone, from key provisions of campaign finance reform legislation. ....
Ago. justice scalia said the federal government has to recognize and keep the right to bear arms. this is so much broader. justice alito s statement today said all state and local governments have to recognize that gun ownership is a fundamental right. there are many, many more state and local laws about gun ownership than there are federal laws. the nra is a very aggressive, very successful organization. they will lead challenges. other gun groups will lead challenges. and i think anyone who predicts today that they know exactly where this is going to end is blowing smoke. i don t think anyone does. i want to talk about elena kagan s confirmation hearings today. how did it go for her? what are the chances she s going to be confirmed? i think it was a pretty predictable day. most republicans were hostile, arguing she was a political partisan, someone who had worked ....