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Posted on 12/02/2014 10:13:54 AM PST by MtnClimber
In her book Stonewalled, Sharyl Attkisson reminds readers of the Fast and Furious debacle: the issue of corruption, coverups, and government misdeeds. Early in the Obama Administration, ATF officials came up with a plan to secretly enlist the help of licensed gun dealers in Arizona and encouraged them to sell firearms to suspected traffickers for the Mexican drug cartels. Part of the plan was to allow these guns to be used in crimes that would lead to the arrest of major drug cartel figures. American Thinker interviewed journalist Sharyl Attkisson and John Dodson, the Fast and Furious whistleblower who helped to make this outrageous scheme public.
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I second that!
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The 0bama war on hispanic men and women.
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“Part of the plan was to allow these guns to be used in crimes that would lead to the arrest of major drug cartel figures.”
That was never part of it because there was no mechanism to trace the guns once they left the dealer. What the Obama administration wanted to do was to have the Mexican government find these guns at crime scenes in Mexico and then claim that more gun laws in the US were necessary to stem the flow of guns into Mexico. If a border patrol agent had not been murdered with one of the weapons and someone in the ATF hadn’t dropped a dime on them we would still be speculating.
Ok, call me stupid, but if there was no way to trace the gun, now do we know a border agent was killed with one of them?
It was recovered at the scene.
The weapon was located and traced to the dealer by serial number. What the poster meant to say is that there was no way to track them once they left the dealer.
“That was never part of it because there was no mechanism to trace the guns once they left the dealer. What the Obama administration wanted to do was to have the Mexican government find these guns at crime scenes in Mexico and then claim that more gun laws in the US were necessary to stem the flow of guns into Mexico.”
The “old school” philosophy in the BATF was that they never let guns “get away” because to do so would violate their primary purpose, supposedly to prevent criminals from getting guns. They worried about a backlash if the agency that was charged with stopping guns from going to criminals actually facilitated them going to criminals.
In Fast and Furious, they deliberately “Let guns walk” that is go untraced (so they could not be confiscated from criminals before a crime was committed with them) so as to bump up the numbers South of the border.
Yes, the guns could be “traced” once they were found at a crime scene, that was part of the plan.
But the whole idea of “tracing” guns to prevent crime has always been a farce. Tracing has virtually no impact on preventing crime. It is entirely reactive.
In my opinion, tracing was always designed as a stepping stone to a registration system.
bttt
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