{"id":22403,"date":"2011-02-25T09:37:24","date_gmt":"2011-02-25T13:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=22403"},"modified":"2011-02-25T09:37:24","modified_gmt":"2011-02-25T13:37:24","slug":"gunrunning-atf-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22403","title":{"rendered":"“Gunrunning” ATF style"},"content":{"rendered":"

Old Trooper sends us a link from CBS News<\/a> about a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives operation named “Project Gunrunner” which focuses on preventing firearms from getting to the cartels in Mexico from the US. They have real funny way of going about it, though;<\/p>\n

In late 2009, ATF was alerted to suspicious buys at seven gun shops in the Phoenix area. Suspicious because the buyers paid cash, sometimes brought in paper bags. And they purchased classic “weapons of choice” used by Mexican drug traffickers – semi-automatic versions of military type rifles and pistols.<\/p>\n

Sources tell CBS News several gun shops wanted to stop the questionable sales, but ATF encouraged them to continue.<\/p>\n

Jaime Avila was one of the suspicious buyers. ATF put him in its suspect database in January of 2010. For the next year, ATF watched as Avila and other suspects bought huge quantities of weapons supposedly for “personal use.” They included 575 AK-47 type semi-automatic rifles.<\/p>\n

ATF managers allegedly made a controversial decision: allow most of the weapons on the streets. The idea, they said, was to gather intelligence and see where the guns ended up. Insiders say it’s a dangerous tactic called letting the guns, “walk.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Dangerous enough that CBS speculates that 2500 weapons were allowed to cross the border into Mexico…despite gun dealers’ warnings. CBS also tells us that one of those weapons was used in the murder of ICE agentBrian Terry in a gun fight on the border.<\/p>\n

The assault rifles found at the murder were traced back to a U.S. gun shop. Where they came from and how they got there is a scandal so large, some insiders say it surpasses the shoot-out at Ruby Ridge and the deadly siege at Waco.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

ATF’s own agents argued against allowing the large number of weapons to go to Mexico. Reportedly, the discussions degenerated into shouting matches, to no avail.<\/p>\n

So when Janet Napolitano says that most of the weapons in the border drug war came from the US, she knows what she’s talking about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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