{"id":64865,"date":"2016-03-17T14:29:38","date_gmt":"2016-03-17T18:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=64865"},"modified":"2016-03-17T14:32:08","modified_gmt":"2016-03-17T18:32:08","slug":"el-chapos-fast-and-furious-rifle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=64865","title":{"rendered":"El Chapo’s Fast and Furious rifle"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back in January, Fox News<\/a> told us that when Mexican narco-terrorist Joachim \u201cEl Chapo\u201d Guzman was arrested, Mexican authorities found a weapon that was traced back to the Fast and Furious “gun walking” exercise that armed several thousand Mexican thugs by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. The agency was trying to track how weapons moved from illegal purchases in the US through the criminal elements south of the border. Well, today that rifle is news again because the Associated Press<\/a> picked up on the story finally;<\/p>\n

The [Justice Department said in a letter to members of Congress that a .50-caliber rifle that Mexican officials sent for tracing after Guzman’s arrest in January has been connected to Fast and Furious.<\/p>\n

Officials say the weapon was one of 19 firearms that Mexican authorities said was recovered from the hideout and was the only one determined to be associated with the botched sting operation, in which the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives allowed gun-runners to buy weapons in hopes of tracking them and disrupting gun smuggling rungs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But, no worries because the BATFE has issued a statement of regret, so it’s all cool again;<\/p>\n

“ATF and the department deeply regret that firearms associated with Operation Fast and Furious have been used by criminals in the commission of violent crimes, particularly crimes resulting in the deaths of civilians and law enforcement officials,” Assistant Attorney General Peter Kadzik, head of the Justice Department’s legislative affairs office, wrote in a March 15 letter to congressional leaders.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This only proves how effective the entire program was – they have been able to track the guns all the way to the top echelons of the Mexican gangs. Yay!<\/p>\n

Oh, yeah, there are still about 1200 more firearms out there in the hands of criminals, but I’m sure they’ll find them all. It shouldn’t take long at all, because most of the guns turn up at crime scenes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Back in January, Fox News told us that when Mexican narco-terrorist Joachim \u201cEl Chapo\u201d Guzman was … El Chapo’s Fast and Furious rifle<\/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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64865","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=64865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}