Administration, ATF knowingly smuggle thousands of guns
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No kidding. As part of a smuggling investigation they actually told gun store owners to sell guns to known smugglers as much as 30 to 40 guns at a time. At least one dealer has an agent on audio tape telling him to do it. They put in cameras, etc. Not saying "OK", letting them sell, but telling them to sell to these guys. The dealers were trying to do the right thing.
The problem is that they have now armed the drug cartels with nearly 2,000 guns, apparently all of them pretty serious guns like AKs but also sniper rifles. One of the sniper rifles was used to shoot down a helicopter, and Mexico estimates 150 of their officers have been shot by one of the guns so far. Given the quantity and timing that will surely go way up, probably over 1,000 IMO.
It goes all the way up to at least Assistant Attorney General Ronald Weich, who has previously denied ATF was allowing smuggling on purpose. This is a Presidential appointment, so it goes into the Administration, thus the title of the post. This wasn't just a bureaucratic decision, for which I'd have absolved the White House. Those things happen, but this is guy was on Sen. Reid's staff and brought over, so he's a "party man."
This was only brought to light when a Border Patrol agent was killed with one and an ATF agent blew the whistle on the whole operation.
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Given our discussion about gun regulation in the US I thought this is not only a shockingly stupid decision worthy of posting but also something we can all agree on in this subject area.
They had GPS on the guns, but kept alllowing them to go over the border by the 100. what were they waiting for here? It's not like it ended in arrests, it finally was stopped by the field agents dealing with this nightmare. As an agent said, it's not like we can raid some warehouse and get the stuff back. They're gone. Typically in such stings you either sell small quantities or you can recover it when everyone is arrested. This was stupid beyond words.
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