[Elderberry]

"Michael Jarrett, has said that it could be up to a year before analysis of evidence from the case is finished and that his office is not ready to go to trial."

Delay,delay,delay.

[TexasGator]

On Looney’s website:

“Mr. Looney has won 60 criminal defense trials since 1995 with ZERO convictions!”

But here is where he lost his defense of a notorious drug dealer charged with murder!

“The jury may have gotten mad at Looney “

http://blog.chron.com/houstonlegal/2011/03/i-object-more-than-200-times-a-day-i-object/

[Dalberg-Acton]

ATF? Now there’s a trustworthy bunch.

[precisionshootist]

"Michael Jarrett, has said that it could be up to a year before analysis of evidence from the case is finished and that his office is not ready to go to trial."

This is a disgrace to the state of Texas.

[Texas Fossil]

Thanks for the post, I posted another article yesterday stating that the ATF had done the firearms checks. I was asking myself why the ATF would have done that instead of the FBI. It was not clear that what was done was the tracing of ownership of the weapons, not the ballistics tests.

I am convinced that there is an unseen Fed agenda behind the way this is being handled. I doubt very seriously this will be concluded before Obama is out of office.

This is just insane.

[centurion316]

“It is essentially tracking the life of the firearms, from the point it was manufactured, to who the first purchaser was — which is normally a licensed firearms dealer — to who the next purchaser was all the way down to the final purchase.

I'm curious what the data looks like. Private transactions between individuals require no documentation, and excepting jurisdictions requiring registration or licensing, a paper trail will not exist. Guns in that category cannot be assumed to be "illegal". The laws regulating firearms purchases restrict the distribution of the background check paperwork, so how does the ATF do this?

[batterycommander]

I hope they traced all the LE guns too and all their throw down guns, too.

[TexasGator]

Cody apparently saw the first shooting. He may have been shot or stabbed in the fight.

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He threw a punch at a Cossack who went by the nickname “Chain.” Chain dodged it, threw a punch of his own. The biker then whipped out a handgun, pressed it to Chain’s chest and pulled the trigger.

Chain fell to the pavement.

He was the first to die.

“What the hell?” Ledbetter thought. The man had pulled out a gun at a fistfight.

http://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Life-and-death-in-Waco-A-biker-s-story-6339392.php

[Kenton]

ATF completes trace of guns from Twin Peaks shootout

Any of them trace back to Fast and Furious?

[Pollster1]

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has traced the histories of 151 firearms recovered from the restaurant grounds and seized from bikers’ vehicles May 17 after nine people were killed, two dozen wounded and 177 jailed on engaging in organized criminal activity charges.

I would like to see the justification for search and seizure of the vehicles. Unless the bikers had access to the vehicles during or after the shootout, I don't see any probable cause to search their property. BATFE needs to be disbanded and just about all federal firearms laws need to be repealed (keep the one that forbids frivolous lawsuits against gun makers whose products function as designed).

[backwoods-engineer]

What is this "trace" crap? If these are lawfully-owned firearms, the ATF does not legally have records to run a "trace" on them. In other words, if I buy a Glock 19 from a guy who was the first person (after the dealer) to own it, how does the ATF know I have that Glock? THEY DON'T. There is no gun registration in Texas, nor in most US states.

So I ask again: what is this "trace" stuff?