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Posted on 03/09/2011 2:03:15 PM PST by neverdem
| NRA-ILA Executive Director Chris W. Cox Calls for Expedited Hearings into BATFE Investigative Tactics |
| Wednesday, March 09, 2011 |
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On March 9, NRA-ILA Executive Director Chris W. Cox sent letters to key leaders in Congress calling for hearings to examine the firearms trafficking investigations tactics employed by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Those tactics have allegedly allowed firearms to fall into the hands of Mexican criminal organizations, with the knowledge of the BATFE.
In the letters sent to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas) and Ranking Member, John Conyers (D-Mich.) and their counterparts in the U.S. Senate, Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Ranking Member Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), Cox wrote that the BATFE project “reportedly allowed over 2,000 firearms to be sold to individuals already linked to Mexican drug cartels. Many of those transactions were reported as suspicious by the licensed firearms dealers themselves, but BATFE reportedly encouraged them to proceed with these sales, which the dealers would otherwise have turned down.”
Cox also called on the committees to look into the BATFE responses to inquiries about these suspect programs, stating “Any investigation should also examine the responses by the BATFE and the Department of Justice to earlier congressional inquiries about the ‘Fast and Furious’ program.”
To read the full text of these letters, click here.(PDF) |
This is a NRA membership push. You won’t be able to say they kept quiet about the issue.
Heh! My take as well!
AvOrdVet, thank you for confirming my suspicions about those in the know were confined to the RKBA community.
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I have the impression that this is Fox News first story about it, but this is limited to those who don't believe that Fox News is just a shill for the right.
Check CBS Evening News on the TV tonight to see if they are still giving coverage to Gunwalker.
Yeah, Fox finally did a full story on it the other day after doing a snippet about a week ago... but the main weight has been carried by 2A websites and activists since the story broke... As I said Codrea and Vanderbough have been rabid in pursuing the story.
I have been hammering my Reps Chambliss/Isakson for a couple of months... finally yesterday a full two months after the first email, they responded in a very lackluster way... “Oh yeah we know about it and are looking into it”... absolutely pitiful response, but what I have come to expect from both of them.
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