Republicans took Project Gunrunner investigation to Phoenix last week

The Daily Caller ^ | 5/3/11 | Jonathan Strong

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Top GOP oversight officials say they took their investigation of the Justice Department’s “Project Gunrunner” – in which military-grade weapons were permitted to be smuggled into Mexico – to the Phoenix, Arizona last week and that transcribed interviews with key officials there contradict the agency’s official story.

In a May 3 letter to Attorney General Eric Holder, House oversight committee Chairman Darrell Issa and Iowa Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley criticize Holder for continuing to deny the increasingly apparent facts that guns were allowed to be smuggled across the border.

Grassley even added a personal touch, advising in a handwritten “P.S.” to Holder that “you should check to see if you are getting accurate information from your staff. You might be ill-served.”

The Justice Department, in a May 2 letter, continued to insist that “it remains our understanding that ATF’s Operation Fast and Furious did not knowingly permit straw buyers to take guns into Mexico.”

However, the letter did not address documents and other evidence provided by the Republicans regarding the issue, instead saying the agency had forwarded those documents to the Justice Department’s inspector general, who is investigating the matter as well.

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Military-grade weapons would be select-fire, capable of full-auto or 3-shot burst. One would need a Class III license in order to trade in such machinery. So are they saying the buyers had Class III licenses? Methinks not. That’s a pretty extensive background check to get one of them.