It’s accidental and due to incompetence, of course.  But still.

FBI officials did not offer a theory on the spike in gun sales.

Perhaps American citizens arm themselves because the federal government is arming Mexican drug lords while blaming America’s gun-owners for it. 

 Holder and Obama must go, but give them props for turning so many Americans into “bitter clingers”.  America may be dead, but the idea of freedom isn’t.  And the more private firearms there are, the more liberty will be preserved and regained in post-U.S. North America.