{"id":26223,"date":"2011-08-18T08:39:34","date_gmt":"2011-08-18T12:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=26223"},"modified":"2011-08-18T08:39:34","modified_gmt":"2011-08-18T12:39:34","slug":"more-fast-and-furious-weapons-found-at-violent-crime-scenes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26223","title":{"rendered":"More &#8220;Fast and Furious&#8221; weapons found at violent crime scenes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2011\/aug\/17\/weapons-atf-investigation-show-crime-scenes\/\">Washington Times<\/a> the Justice Department admitted that at least a dozen more weapons that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE) allowed to transfer to illegal users have been found to be involved in violent crimes across the Southwest US;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In a letter to Sen. Patrick J. Leahy, Vermont Democrat and chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and the committee\u2019s ranking Republican, Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, the Justice Department confirmed that the illegally purchased weapons recently were found at the sites of at least 11 violent crimes.<\/p>\n<p>The department did not specifically identify any of the locations, but congressional sources and others said the weapons were located at crime sites in Arizona and Texas. More than 40 weapons, the sources said, were recovered near El Paso, Texas, alone, all of which were traced back to the Fast and Furious operation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Gun owners and gun dealers have been set up by the government to take the fall for their incompetent handling of the illegal weapons trade.<\/p>\n<p>The BATFE hasn&#8217;t been able to account for more than a thousand of the weapons;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Asked how many guns from all the suspects in the Fast and Furious operation had not been recovered, the department wrote that \u201cthe total number of firearms purchased by all of the suspects [indicted and unindicted] after they were entered in this investigation that have not yet been recovered and traced in Mexico or the U.S. is one thousand forty-eight [1,048].\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Feel safer?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Washington Times the Justice Department admitted that at least a dozen more weapons &hellip; <a title=\"More &#8220;Fast and Furious&#8221; weapons found at violent crime scenes\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26223\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More &#8220;Fast and Furious&#8221; weapons found at violent crime scenes<\/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":[82,156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gun-grabbing-fascists","category-guns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26223","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=26223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}