Posted on 05/29/2016 7:33:16 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo
Guns sold through Operation Fast and Furious were possibly connected to 69 killings, according to findings by a conservative government watchdog group.
Judicial Watch devised the report from internal documents recovered from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives — the agency behind the operation — through a Freedom of Information Act request.
The FOIA documents contain a spreadsheet that reveals details about firearms recovered through the operation from December 2012 to February 2016. Details include date sold, date recovered, location of incident (in Mexico), and type and caliber. Redacted from the spreadsheet are name of buyer, serial number, and trace data.
For the report, Judicial Watch cross referenced details with published news reports and was able to deduce incidents in which Fast and Furious guns were likely used. The 69 killings were linked to four separate incidents. They include:
Jan. 29, 2013 — One 7.62mm rifle seized in Hostotipaquillo, Jalisco is reportedly related to the assassination of the town police chief, Luis Lucio Astorga and his bodyguard.
June 30, 2014 — One 7.62mm rifle recovered in Tlatlaya, Estado de Mexico. This is the reported date and location of a shootout in which 22 people were killed.
May 22, 2015 — Two 7.62mm rifles recovered from the site of a massive shootout in Rancho el Sol, Michoacán, that left one Mexican Federal Police officer and 42 suspected cartel members dead.
Aug. 7, 2015 — One 7.62mm rifle was among five firearms reported as recovered from an abandoned stolen vehicle in which three dead shooting victims were found in Parral, Chihuahua.
Further increasing the probability, 20 of the entries in the spreadsheet were identified as being involved in “violent recoveries,” meaning a mass killings, the organization said.
The total number of guns recovered are 94 (though one entry is listed as a duplicate). The organization also tied a firearm to the high-profile case involving a recently captured Sinaloa cartel boss.
On, Jan. 11, authorities recovered a .50 caliber rifle seized from the Joaquin “Chapo” Guzman’s hideout in Los Mochis, Sinaloa, where he was re-arrested.
Fast and Furious launched in 2009 and ended in 2011 after details of the strategy were made public. A repeat of plans under the previous administration from 2006 to 2008, the operation entailed allowing cartel members to buy weapons through straw men that would be monitored and lead to arrests. However, agents lost track of the weapons as they were smuggled elsewhere.
See, see! If law-abiding citizens would give up their 2nd Amendment rights, this wouldn’t have happened!
Way to go big eared POS
Lie. The Bush administration actually tried to track the guns. Obama just wanted dead people to blame on the second amendment to further one of his many Big Lies.
Once again, no one is being held responsible.
I’d love for the Mexican government to indict Holder and the ATF goons who pulled this little stunt and demand their extradition.
In fact Trump should mention that loudly a time just to see what happens. Perhaps he could say his administration would look favorably upon such a request.
Boy would that be fun.
L
My bet is there is more truth than fiction to that statement and soon Hitlary will be using it in her stump “screeches”.
All three branches have become lawless, and deserve justice.
btt
Never thought I would see the day an American President is arming the cartels in Mexico and the jihadis in the Middle East.
stump screeches
oh I like that term
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