{"id":25967,"date":"2011-07-25T14:39:18","date_gmt":"2011-07-25T18:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=25967"},"modified":"2011-07-25T14:39:18","modified_gmt":"2011-07-25T18:39:18","slug":"feds-mum-on-how-2-felons-bought-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=25967","title":{"rendered":"Feds mum on how 2 felons bought guns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2011\/07\/25\/feds-refuse-to-explain-why-proper-background-checks-werent-conducted-on-fast\/\">Fox News reports<\/a> that court records they reviewed indicate that two of the indicted purchasers of guns in the &#8220;Fast and Furious&#8221; program were felons who should have been prevented from buying firearms when the dealer checked on their eligibility;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Congressional and law-enforcement sources say the situation suggests the FBI, which operates the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, knowingly allowed the purchases to go forward after consulting with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, which initiated Operation Fast and Furious. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Jacob Wayne Chambers and Sean Christopher Stewart purchased more than 300 guns during the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives failed arms trafficking tracking program.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When asked about the breakdown, Stephen Fischer, a spokesman for the [National Instant Criminal Background Check System, NICS], said the FBI had no comment. However, an ATF agent who worked on the Fast and Furious investigation, told Fox News that NICS officials called the ATF in Phoenix whenever their suspects tried to buy a gun. That conversation typically led to a green light for the buyers, when it should have stopped them.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I wouldn&#8217;t think that it&#8217;s legal to circumvent Federal law for intelligence purposes, no matter who you are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News reports that court records they reviewed indicate that two of the indicted purchasers of &hellip; <a title=\"Feds mum on how 2 felons bought guns\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=25967\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Feds mum on how 2 felons bought guns<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}