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Posted on 07/01/2009 8:10:32 AM PDT by rarestia
In front of a run-down shack in north Houston, federal agents step from a government sedan into 102-degree heat and face a critical question: How can the woman living here buy four high-end handguns in one day?
The house is worth $35,000. A screen dangles by a wall-unit air conditioner. Porch swing slats are smashed, the smattering of grass is flattened by cars and burned yellow by sun.
“I’ll do the talking on this one,” agent Tim Sloan, of South Carolina, told partner Brian Tumiel, of New York.
Success on the front lines of a government blitz on gunrunners supplying Mexican drug cartels with Houston weaponry hinges on logging heavy miles and knocking on countless doors. Dozens of agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives — sent here from around the country — are needed to follow what ATF acting director Kenneth Melson described as a “massive number of investigative leads.”
All told, Mexican officials in 2008 asked federal agents to trace the origins of more than 7,500 firearms recovered at crime scenes in Mexico. Most of them were traced back to Texas, California and Arizona.
Among other things, the agents are combing neighborhoods and asking people about suspicious purchases as well as seeking explanations as to how their guns ended up used in murders, kidnappings and other crimes in Mexico.
“Ever turning up the heat on cartels, our law enforcement and military partners in the government of Mexico have been working more closely with the ATF by sharing information and intelligence,” Melson said Tuesday during a firearms-trafficking summit in New Mexico.
(Excerpt) Read more at chron.com ...
I'm thinking not.
Not yet...
Why are we concentrating on Mexico and not the USA?
Obama is an idiot and so are his minions.
Barack Insane Obama=Hugo Chavez
Communist dictators always disarm the people .
they need to get at the root of the problem, not the outlying branches.
in the same way that you can’t stop a river using a bucket, they can’t stop the flow of money, arms, crime, and criminals by harassing one citizen at a time.
0 wants the “problem”.
Blame it on the US, get rid of our guns while keeping his drugbuds/supply in business.
This is the same Mexican Government and military and officials that FEMA wants to bring to the USA this month to work on strategies to be used in marshall law instances.
It is illegal for military persons from other countries to do any active operations on American soil.
IF OUR military is training other country military persons— our MILITARY should be doing it—— NOT FEMA!!!!!
Does anyone know yet where these exercises are going to be?
He won't meddle in any country that is totalitarian or a virtual totalitarian state like Mexico, Venezuela, Iran, Saudi Arabia.
But forcing democracies to change their ways, like The U.S., Israel, and Britain.....thats his bag.
Do these agents from NC and NY speak Spanish? Chances are excellent that they wouldn’t have been able to communicate with the resident of this “shack.” And by the way, do these agents have lawful search warrants? That wasn’t mentioned in the article.
Lucky for them that they aren’t census takers in far west Texas. During the 2000 count, a gubmint worker was hospitalized when a javelina under the porch of a trailer attacked her...a “watch hog,” doncha know.
Maybe we could trade then 100 illegal aliens for each gun?? That’s about the level of trade that is happening now.
Screw Mexico.
Don't know about NY. Lots of cops do speak Mexican here in NC. Please feel free to take some illigals off our hands. We can't get jobs because of them.
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