Long-time reporter Dennis Wagner's unusually accurate gun coverage fails in only a single aspect, its spin. The article conveys an urgent sense of need for more gun laws, and is perfectly timed to back such proposals by left-leaning lawmakers.
Nothing cuts down crime better than cutting down the criminals.
A reduction in all forms of gun crime is likely after the arrests, Korwin says, but the paper confusingly reports these have not been made yet. The report gives the impression that scores of flagrant felony violators were identified and might be arrested, depending on the will of the U.S. Attorney's office. Despite the few arrests, the story claims ATF agents raided more than 20 private homes. Korwin is reserved however about charges by gun-rights activists that ATF is tricking people or enforcing the laws unfairly, calling such claims unsubstantiated at present. The only real goal on the part of the government agents and the anti-rights crowd is to disarm Americans, and create a government monopoly on the use of force.