Liars, Damn Liars; Politicians

90% of firearms recovered at crime scenes in Mexico were sourced in the United States.




Secretary of State Hillary Clinton quoted it.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein did too so it must be true right? RIGHT?

Nope


Were they a little off? Yeah just a little, the real number is:

17%

Thats right only 17%, not 90% of those weapons were sourced in the United States. Sure they rounded up a bit but that's okay isn't it? Afterall, it's a statistic that might be used to incite gun control in the US so it's perfectly ok to round up a bit.

Apparently in 2007 and 2008 the Mexican goverment submitted to 11,000 firearms (of the 29,000 recovered at Mexican crime scenes) to the Unites States BATF. Of those 5,114 were succesfully traced and found to be sourced in the United States. That works out to 17% of the 29,0000 weapons found at Mexican crime scenes.

The scary part is these people are doing the bailout dollars too aren't they.