After years of reporting on border security issues from Washington, it's easy to get lost in the policy debates and overlook what's actually happening in places like Laredo.
In my years of reporting along the border, it always troubled me how some Mexicans and even a few immigrants-rights activists romanticized coyotes as Robin Hood figures.
We applauded back in December when the Bureau of Alcohol , Tobacco Firearms and Explosives announced that it was seeking an emergency rule requiring gun dealers near the Mexican border to report multiple purchases of high-power semiautomatic rifles that use a detachable magazine.
In testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Mr. Holder criticized a recent vote by the House of Representatives to block a new regulation requiring firearms dealers along the Southwest border to report multiple sales of semiautomatic rifles.
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Friday rejected a request for an emergency rule requiring gun dealers along the Mexican border to report bulk sales of assault rifles, a proposal intended to make it harder for drug cartels to smuggle weapons.
To stem this deadly flow, the Bureau of Alcohol , Tobacco Firearms and Explosives is seeking emergency authority to require gun dealers near the border to report multiple purchases of the high-firepower rifles favored by cartel gunmen.
The A.T.F. proposed requiring gun dealers along the Southwest border to report bulk sales of long guns — as dealers across the country were already required to do for bulk sales of handguns — in December 2010, invoking a hurry-up procedure for emergencies.
WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration on Monday approved a new regulation requiring firearms dealers along the Southwest border to report multiple sales of certain semiautomatic rifles, a rule intended to make it harder for Mexican drug cartels to obtain and smuggle weapons from the United States.
PAGE A8 NATIONAL SEMIAUTOMATIC WEAPONS FACE NEW SALES RULES The Obama administration approved a new regulation requiring firearms dealers along the Southwest border to report multiple sales of certain semiautomatic rifles, a rule intended to make it harder for Mexican drug cartels to obtain and smuggle weapons from the United States.
More and more Canadian companies are wooing investors south of the border by reporting in Americandollars and adopting American accounting practices.
