Project Gunrunner: Stupid Is As Government Does

FRee Republic ---Freedom's Last Stand On The Internet | 6/19/11 | AlanLevy

[Absolutely Nobama]

From the Second Amendment-hating fascists at ATF:

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"Project Gunrunner’s objective is to deny Mexican drug cartels the “tools of the trade,” which they employ to murder rival drug traffickers, civilians, as well as political, military, and law enforcement figures in order to strengthen their grip on the lucrative drug and firearms routes into and out of the United States."

http://www.atf.gov/firearms/programs/project-gunrunner/

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This stupidity gave birth to Operation "Fast and Furious".

The idea was this: Allow the straw purchases of weapons in US southern border states and track the weapons to the cartel kingpins, while hoping no one was killed along the way. 2000 weapons were released into Mexico, but only 600 have been recovered thus far. In other words, we have 1400 unaccounted for military grade weapons in a rapidly failing state on our southern border. This government brain fart cost Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry his life, along with God knows how many innocent Mexican civilians.

Angry yet ? No ? Maybe this will make you angry:

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"$10 million in ARRA funding is hiring 37 ATF employees to open, staff (via new hire and relocation of senior personnel,) equip, and operate new Project Gunrunner criminal enforcement teams in McAllen, TX; El Centro, CA; and Las Cruces, NM (which includes a subordinate satellite office in Roswell, NM.). Additionally, these funds support the assignment of two special agents to each of the U.S. consulates in Juarez and Tijuana, Mexico to provide direct support to Mexican officials on firearms-trafficking-related issues."

http://www.atf.gov/firearms/programs/project-gunrunner/

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That's right, gang! Chairman Obama's Stimulus scam helped fund Operation "Fast and Furious". (Of course, our Dear Leader denies any knowledge of what Project Gunrunner and the ATF was up to.)

How on God's green and cooling earth did Congress miss this when pushing through the Stimulus package ? Why is it no one, on either side of the aisle, stood up and asked why this would be included in an economic stimulus bill ? (The Republican Panty--no typo--is just as guilty as the Democrat Party. Project Gunrunner was started in 2005 under the Bush administration.)

This is a clear indication that the United States, like Mexico, is on the verge of becoming a failed state. The bureaucracy has become so bloated that the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing, nor does it care. The Department of Justice has become an Orwellian parody and Congress has become the punch line of a really bad knock-knock joke.

God help us all.

[Miss Behave]

It never had much to do with actually solving any problems.

The ONLY problem it was meant to solve was the "problem" of Americans owning guns.

Dirty murdering b@st@rds.

[muawiyah]

Think of it in "stages of development". It started as one thing, then morphed to another, then the Obamistas came into power and it became yet something else, then we won the election ~ but the Obamistas had NEVER LOST an election.

In Chicago the Obamistas (the Daley gang under a different name) are organized criminals ~ and they didn't get into power by losing.

They have no concept of losing. The result is they still don't feel like they've lost. Ordinarily they'd just send out some goons to take care of that problem but the US government is not that easy to manipulate. That's why they got caught.

[Absolutely Nobama]

Bingo!

Sorry for the late response, I kept getting an error message on Sunday and was unable to respond.

[Absolutely Nobama]

“I keep thinking that at some point, the media will pick up on this and expose this story.”

The only ones who will are FOX News and talk radio.

Sorry for the late response, I kept getting an error message on Sunday and was unable to respond.

[Absolutely Nobama]

Sorry for the late response.

“Firearms purchased at gun shops in Texas aren’t ‘military grade’ “

Some AK-47’s were found that were tied to “Fast and Furious”.

[Absolutely Nobama]

Thanks for the shout-out! OOOORAH!

[Absolutely Nobama]

“I challenge anybody to provide evidence contrary to my claim.”

I won’t. Great post!

Sorry for the late response.

[Yaelle]

Obama’s lyin’. People’s dyin’.

[Absolutely Nobama]

Sad, but true.

[Malsua]

Some AK-47’s were found that were tied to “Fast and Furious”.

Neutered US semi-automatic versions most likely.

[Bob]

(The Republican Panty--no typo--is just as guilty as the Democrat Party. Project Gunrunner was started in 2005 under the Bush administration.)

From its 2005 inception, did the Project Gunrunner (Note: not Gunwalker) program include any aspects of the "Fast and Furious" strategy of allowing/aiding the illegal transport of guns? Or was it a legitimate effort to stop the trafficking that got hijacked when Obama and Holder came into power?

If it was the latter case, I don't think that the 2005 starting date for Project Gunrunner is particularly relevant to the current fiasco.

[Absolutely Nobama]

I can certainly go with that.

Can an AK-47 be converted like an AR-15 can ? I’m not familiar enough with the neutered AK to make a call on this.

[Absolutely Nobama]

Good question. That’s something to check into.

If Chairman Obama’s sycophants did a “fundamental transformation” of Project Gunrnner, (which is NOT a stretch by any imagination whatsoever) heads should roll.