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NRA: Obama Let Guns Walk To Mexico To Crackdown On Gun Rights

Ryan J. Reilly | November 7, 2011, 1:56PM

Just how dedicated does the National Rifle Association think the Obama administration is to destroying the Second Amendment? The director of the organization thinks that DOJ gave weapons to Mexican drug cartels during Operation Fast and Furious in an effort to churn up support for changing gun laws.

National Rifle Association Director Wayne LaPierre -- who has also suggested that the fact that Obama has not cracked down on guns is just part of a long term scheme to actually crack down on guns -- has been recently floating the conspiracy theory that Fast and Furious was a way to impose stricter guns laws.

"It's the only thing that makes any sense," LaPierre told Newsmax. "Over a period of two or three years they were running thousands and thousands of guns to the most evil people on earth. At the same time they were yelling '90 per cent... of the guns the Mexican drug cartels are using come from the United States.'"

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Topics: ATF, DOJ, Eric Holder, Fast And Furious, Justice Department, Lanny Breuer, NRA, National Rifle Association

Ted Kennedy

FBI Releases Ted Kennedy File

Justin Elliott | June 14, 2010, 10:14AM

Late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-MA)

The FBI today released its files on the late Ted Kennedy -- over 2,200 pages in all and covering such areas as death threats against the senator, J. Edgar Hoover's interest in Kennedy's meeting with leftists abroad, and Chappaquiddick (though the FBI was actually not involved in investigating the case).

Download the files, which cover a period from the early 1960s through the early 1990s, here. See anything interesting? Leave a comment below or send us an email.