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	<title><![CDATA[20,000 American Guns Trafficked to Mexican Criminals]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-helmke/20000-american-guns-traff_b_227196.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p>Rep. Eliot Engel of New York recently held a <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/la-na-arms-smuggling18-2009jun18,0,6199671.story" target="_blank">hearing </a>in his House Foreign Affairs subcommittee about the Government Accountability Office <a href="http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/documents/gao_report_firearms.pdf" target="_blank">report </a>on American guns being trafficked to criminals across our southern border into Mexico.</p>

<p>That hearing included an exchange between Ranking Member Connie Mack, Jr. from Florida and Jess Ford of the GAO - the single witness called to present the report's findings. </p>

<p>I present that exchange at length below [available from Lexis and <a href="http://www.prio.no/NISAT/Blog/">here</a>]...</p>]]></abstract>
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	<date_published>2009-07-07T16:10:00-04:00</date_published>
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