Weapons Traffic: Guns and the Border - NYTimes editorial

Guns and the Border - NYTimes.com: "In December, the Obama administration signaled a welcome new resolve to block the torrent of illegal guns moving into Mexico and the hands of the drug cartels.

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives announced it was seeking emergency authority to require 8,000 gun dealers near the border to report multiple purchases by any individual of high-firepower semiautomatic rifles that use a detachable magazine. ....

The budget office needs to approve the A.T.F. initiative. And the White House needs to press Congress to provide the bureau with funding for more inspectors, as well as more authority to identify and shut down see-no-evil gun dealers. Not just at the border, but everywhere." Jan. 15, 2011