Why isn't obama prosecuting gun crimes…..one wonders why? Fast and Furious: The American Side?

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Why wouldn't obama be prosecuting gun crimes at the federal level…..well that is easy…he needs the gun crime rate to go up so he can push more gun control…..same tactic as he used in FAst and Furious in Mexico….

All Talk: Fewer Gun Crime Prosecutions Under Obama than George W. Bush - Breitbart

Yet TRAC Reports shows that prosecutions for gun violations actually began a decline in 2013. In fact, prosecutions in 2013 were lower than 2012. Gun crime prosecutions were even lower in 2014 and actually hit an all-time low for the Obama administration in 2015. For example, “during fiscal year (FY) 2014 the Justice Department said the government obtained 20.3 weapons convictions for every one million people in the United States… [and that dropped to] 19.1 weapons convictions for one million people in the United States during FY 2015.”

To put it another way, FY 2015 represents a 15.5 percent drop in prosecutions from 5 years ago and a 34.8 percent drop from the midway point of Bush’s eight years in office.

It is interesting to note that these reductions in gun crime prosecutions have correlated with an ever increasing push for more gun control. In fact, in January 2013—the very month in which Obama called for an increase in gun crime prosecutions—Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) was being tapped for a gun control push, and Gabby Giffords’s gun control PAC Americans for Responsible Solutions was founded. Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America had formed in the prior month, and this meant January, February, March, and the first two weeks of April witnessed a gun control push unlike any other in American history.

 

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Cops a plea deal to avoid death penalty...

Man given 24-year term for role in Agent Brian Terry's slaying
Oct. 19,`15 --The recruiter for the "rip crew" accused of killing Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry in 2010 was sentenced to 24 years in prison Monday.

Rosario Burboa-Alvarez pleaded guilty in August to first-degree murder. As part of the plea agreement, he wasn't going to face the death penalty. After the hearing, Burboa-Alvarez's attorney asked the judge that he recommend that he served his time in a facility in Southern California so he could be close to his family. The request wasn't made during the the sentencing proceedings in Tucson's federal district court because Burboa-Alvarez fainted and collapsed onto the floor, according to court documents. Burboa-Alvarez, originally from Sinaloa, was in charge of recruiting people to cross into the United States by foot, grab caches of food supplies and firearms hidden on this side of the border, and rob marijuana smugglers. He would then pay them upon their return to Mexico. He pleaded guilty to assembling the armed crew that ran into Border Patrol agents near Rio Rico the night of Dec. 14, 2010, and fatally shot Terry.

The government argued that even though Burboa-Alvarez was in Mexico when Terry was killed, he was a co-conspirator in the robbery. That's because they were armed in order to steal from the smugglers, making it foreseeable that a shootout with law enforcement like the one that killed Terry could happen. The 30-year sentencing recommendation was leveled in part to serve as a deterrence, court documents show. "The sentence imposed must make clear to others that there is no excuse or justification for refusing to yield to law enforcement or for the unconscionable decision to kill a law enforcement officer in an effort to evade capture," the government's attorneys said. Burboa-Alvarez, 31, was the seventh man charged in the slaying at the center of a scandal over a botched U.S. gun-smuggling probe known as Operation Fast and Furious.

The case sparked national controversy when it became known that two guns found at the scene were sold by a Phoenix-area dealer to a suspect involved in the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives investigation, in which the federal agency lost track of about 2,000 guns. On Oct. 1, a jury convicted Lionel Portillo-Meza and Ivan Soto-Barraza of all charges, including first degree murder. Manuel Osorio-Arellanes, who was shot during the gunfight, was sentenced to 30 years in prison in February 2014 for first-degree murder. His brother, Rito Osorio-Arellanes, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to interfere with commerce by robbery since he was not at the scene and was sentenced to eight years in prison in January 2013. Jesus Rosario Favela-Astorga and Heraclio Osorio-Arellanes remain at large.

Man given 24-year term for role in Agent Brian Terry's slaying

 

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House Oversight & Gov't. Reform Committee still left hangin'...

AG Lynch Has Not Decided Whether to Turn Over Fast and Furious Documents
January 21, 2016 | U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch said on Wednesday she has received a federal court ruling that says the Justice Department may not invoke executive privilege to withhold documents from a congressional committee investigating the Fast and Furious gun-walking scandal.

But that doesn't mean the Justice Department will now give those subpoenaed documents to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. Sen. Jim Lankford (R-Okla.), who previously served on the House Oversight Committee, noted that the court told Lynch's office to turn over those documents by February 2nd. "I need clarification," Lankford said. "Will all those documents now be released to the Oversight and Government Reform Committee by February the 2nd, as per the judge's order?"

"Well, thank you for the question, Senator," Lynch responded. "We did receive that ruling yesterday. We are still reviewing that ruling. I am aware of that provision in it. We, of course, want to study it carefully and determine what appropriate steps to take and the timeliness of them. "But I can certainly assure you that we will be either responding to the committee or to the court at the appropriate time." "So you are not saying yes or no, whether those documents will be turned over in time?," Lankford asked her.

"We have not made that decision...if we will pursue any additional legal action," Lynch responded. "We have not made that decision. If we had, I would let you know. And since we have not, I am not able to give you that information at this time." Lankford asked Lynch if she knows when she'll make a decision. "We will let you know certainly within the timeframe -- period you just mentioned (Feb. 2)," she said.

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