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Tom Shafer, SCRA


Tom Shafer
On Gunwalker
 Speaking at the 9/5/11 SCRA Meeting
October 2011 GunNews





Tom Shafer with Jim Butler at the
9/5/11 SCRA Meeting
Shafer arrived a little late and joked that he beat on the door of the Diamond's Buffet for about fifteen minutes wondering why no one would let him in.  "It sounded like they knew me!" he laughed.

It was kind of abrupt losing our spot at the Diamonds, he noted.  The owners gave the staff two days' notice and they were bummed out, of course.  Shafer thanked them for treating us so well for so many years and there were plenty of other groups that felt the same about the Diamond's closing.

Shafer recognized the nice young lady (waitress) for her efforts to navigate through our packed room.  He continued his thanks, recognizing and thanking John Boch, and Guns Save Life, for our special relationship.  "It's nice to have such a great presence in a magazine like GunNews to get our message out there.  It's as good or better than TV!" Shafer noted.

Mr. Shafer then turned his attention to the ATF's Project Gunwalker scandal which the mainstream media has been slow to pick up on.

Kenneth Melson, Interim Director of the ATF, is out, apparently because this Congressman Darrell Issa from California has been asking the hard questions of Obama and his Justice Department.

Issa's committee is saying they're not getting answers to their questions from the Department of Justice.  That's not surprising.  "Have you ever talked to a school superintendent, a governor or a mayor and tried to get a direct answer to a direct question?" Shafer asked.  "I have.  It's impossible."

"They'll razzle dazzle you with some talking points but you won't get your answer."

Darrell Issa has been asking simple questions, the first being, "Who was the rocket scientist who thought up this program?"  The answer back from the Department of Justice was, "We don't know."

Like Kennedy said, "Victory has a thousand fathers,  defeat is an orphan."  Now that the program has gone down in defeat the Justice Department is saying, "We don't know who thought this program up."

So Issa subpoenaed all their e-mail records, Lo and behold, people in the White House were being briefed on it.  And while Melson knew everything about it, so did people much higher in the food chain.

Melson knows that Attorney General Holder knew about this case.  It all lands on Holder's desk and then basically, since Holder has direct access to Obama, it lands on Obama's desk.  But trying to prove all this is going to be impossible unless Melson talks - and that's why he got reassigned instead of fired.

Melson better watch his back because he's liable to turn up like Vince Foster with a suicide note pinned to his shirt, a gun in his hand and two bullet holes in the back of his head.

Shafer looks at everything through a gun colored filter, he said, and it's clear this program was going to be used by the Obama administration as an excuse for more gun restrictions and gun bans.  Unfortunately for Obama, this isn't the 1994 Congress.  With the Tea Party uprising and a much more pro-gun Congress, the gun banners have no chance.


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