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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: MoshMasterD on July 14, 2011, 04:59:52 PM
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harvey007 (931 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Jul-13-11 09:35 PM
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Former NM mayor admits to gun smuggling
Source: KRQE
COLUMBUS, N.M. (KRQE) - The former mayor of a New Mexico border town pleaded guilty to gun smuggling charges four months after he was arrested in a federal sting.
On Tuesday, Eddie Espinoza, 51, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy, three counts of making false statements, and three counts of smuggling firearms from the United States.
Read more: http://www.krqe.com/dpp/news/crime/Former-NM-mayor-admi...
Background:
http://www.atf.gov/firearms/programs/project-gunrunner/
MyrnaLoy (690 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Thu Jul-14-11 12:04 AM
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3. you do realize
that without the federal investigation this guy might not have been caught right? The BATFE is working hard to shut these guys down.
:lol:
Lurks Often (382 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Thu Jul-14-11 10:06 AM
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5. Yes, because they'd rather
smuggle the guns over the border themselves.
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Well this surely is an indicator that AG Holder should be arrested and tried for: murder, conspiracy to commit murder, reckless endangerment, manslaughter, conspiracy to traffic illegal weapons,...
When that happens, I will begin to have a bit of confidence that we have once again become a nation of laws and not of men. Ain't holding my breath.