SloJoe, his handlers and the rest of the demoncraps were never interested in stopping crime.<\/p>\n
DEMOCRATS\u2019 GUN CONTROL DUPLICITY LAID BARE<\/a><\/p>\n It is time for President Joe Biden to drop the gun control charade. He \u2013 and his Capitol Hill gun control supporters \u2013 were never interested in curbing criminal misuse of guns. They are only interested in controlling you.<\/p>\n President Biden\u2019s prisoner swap with Russia of a convicted international arms trafficker for a WNBA star proved that his administration doesn\u2019t care about keeping guns out of the hands of those who should never have them. His only interest when it comes to guns is keeping them out of the hands of those who obey the law. His podium admonitions are betrayed by his actions.<\/p>\n President Biden announced last week the trade with Russia of Viktor Bout for Brittney Griner. Bout is a notorious international arms smuggler who earned the moniker \u201cMerchant of Death.\u201d He is a former Soviet-era military officer who was arrested in 2008 in Thailand by U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents in a sting for proposing a sale of tens of millions of dollars to the Colombian narco-terrorist group Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC. The illicit sale was for\u00a0$20 million worth<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0of \u201ca breathtaking arsenal of weapons \u2014 including hundreds of surface-to-air missiles, machine guns and sniper rifles \u2014 10 million rounds of ammunition and five tons of plastic explosives.\u201d<\/p>\n Bout\u2019s history runs\u00a0much deeper<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong>\u00a0He was identified as an illicit arms dealer by the United Nations in 2000. He was moving arms to African warlords, Middle East dictators and Central American narco-terrorist groups. His attempt to arm the FARC was what ultimately put him in prison for charges of conspiracy to kill U.S. nationals, U.S. officers and employees, conspiracy to acquire missiles to destroy aircraft and conspiracy to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization.<\/p>\n Bout was traded for Griner, a basketball player\u00a0arrested<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0by Russia in February on drug possession charges.<\/p>\n The swap has been lampooned by critics for how lopsided it is. Russia continues to hold former Marine Paul Whelan, arrested on dubious espionage charges. Former National Security Advisor and Ambassador to the U.N. John Bolton\u00a0told CBS News<\/a><\/strong>, \u201cThis is not a deal. This is not a swap. This is a surrender.\u201d<\/p>\n Fox News\u00a0reported<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0that former DEA Special Operation Director Derek Maltz, who was involved in Bout\u2019s capture, slammed the White House for their \u201cironic\u201d prisoner swap, arguing that it\u2019s \u201cdisgusting\u201d for the Biden administration to sell gun control while celebrating the release of an international arms trafficker.<\/p>\n Even the Pentagon is wary. \u201cI think there is a concern that he would return to doing the same kind of work that he\u2019s done in the past,\u201d a senior defense official\u00a0told reporters<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n The exchange exposed how unserious this administration truly is when it comes to ending the criminal misuse of firearms. Less than one day before the swap was announced, President Biden\u00a0renewed<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0his pledge to ban Modern Sporting Rifles (MSRs) in America. That pronouncement came just days after he\u00a0told media<\/strong><\/a>, \u201cThe idea we still allow semi-automatic weapons to be purchased is sick. Just sick. It has no socially redeeming value. Zero. None. Not a single solitary rationale for it except profit for the gun manufacturers.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The White House is mum on Bout\u2019s Russian return. It hasn\u2019t gone unnoticed that within days of returning to Russia, Bout joined the pro-Kremlin Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR), an ultranationalist right-wing political group. That political party supports Russia\u2019s Ukraine invasion and demands Russia \u201creconquer\u201d previously-held territories. He\u2019s\u00a0reportedly<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0considering a run for Russia\u2019s parliament, but is being coy with answers for now.<\/p>\n This is a pattern for President Biden. The White House left\u00a0$7 billion in weapons and equipment<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0in the wake of the ill-fated Afghanistan withdrawal. That consisted of\u00a0600,000 weapons<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0\u2013 including 350,000 M-4 and M-16 rifles, 60,000 machine guns and 25,000 grenade launchers. That\u2019s on top of the 23,825 Humvees in Afghanistan, including armored gun truck variants, and nearly 900 combat vehicles, all of which are in the hands of the Taliban, a terror organization that is the avowed enemy of the United States.<\/p>\n The White House\u00a0ordered<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0U.S. agencies to scrub any reference to those reports. It is doing similar clean-up with the lopsided prisoner swap, calling in support from gun control allies on Capitol Hill. U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) downplayed the significance of an international arms trafficker being released, despite the Pentagon\u2019s concerns. Congresswoman Jackson Lee claimed Bout wasn\u2019t directly responsible for American deaths, so the release of an arms trafficker isn\u2019t a concern to her.<\/p>\n \u201cLet me say this, no one knows the story of Paul \u2014 of the weapons dealer, if you will,\u201d she said on MSNBC\u2019s The ReidOut,\u00a0according<\/strong>\u00a0to Breitbart<\/strong><\/a>. \u201cAnd \u2014 as the facts would tell them, he was sentenced to 25 years, he served 11 to 16 years, I don\u2019t know the \u2014 I can\u2019t remember the exact number. But in actuality, his weapons might have been used to kill Americans. He has not killed Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n President Biden\u2019s gun control agenda has never been targeted at stopping criminals. It\u2019s always been about stopping law-abiding Americans from exercising their God-given rights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" SloJoe, his handlers and the rest of the demoncraps were never interested in stopping crime. DEMOCRATS\u2019 GUN CONTROL DUPLICITY LAID BARE It is time for President Joe Biden to drop the gun control charade. He \u2013 and his Capitol Hill gun control supporters \u2013 were never interested in curbing criminal misuse of guns. 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Security Threat<\/h4>\n
Move Along, Nothing to See<\/h4>\n