...about the voodoo gun statistics errantly parroted over and over by politicians.
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Rep. Connie Mack (R-Fla.)... said he was also "troubled by the fact that the report makes conclusions based on opinions and assumptions rather than facts."
"I don't know that the report itself is something that we should put a lot of value in," Mack said.
Mack noted that out of the 30,000 firearms seized in Mexico in fiscal 2008, the report says only 7,200 were submitted for tracing.
"Where did the other 22,000 guns that were seized come from? Venezuela? Europe? Ecuador? Nicaragua?" Mack asked, adding that the incomplete sample undermined some of the report's broader conclusions.
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