ATF let hundreds of U.S. weapons fall into hands of suspected Mexican gunrunners

The Center For Public Integrity ^ | 3/3/2011 | John Solomon, David Heath and Gordon Witkin

[Sprite518]

Of course the media and press will ignore this too. Anything that makes Obama look bad they ignore.

[Sprite518]

http://www.publicintegrity.org/articles/entry/2976/

[50cal Smokepole]

Bang List bump!
This one may have legs. We’ll see.
[inhaling deeply]

[Blood of Tyrants]

Correction, he let THOUSANDS of guns fall into the hands of drug cartels. No telling how many people have been murdered with those weapons.

[rolling_stone]

When you promote a$$ kiss political hacks to positions of authority, they bend easily to political pressure and their objectivity and common sense go out the window. There isn't a street agent who would have done something this stupid without being ordered to from above.

This was IMO an illegal conspiratorial attempt to violate our 2nd amendment Constitutional Rights. A number of people should be in jail right now pronto. Its also a circumvention of the Neutrality Act.

How many kilos of cocaine or counterfeit money have walked?

[rawcatslyentist]

>"House Republicans ask for explanation of ATF gun tactics "

Key witness/suspect flees for Rio!

[USNBandit]

Talking to law enforcement that my agency supports, they say losing known loads of dope is a huge no-no. It happens, but not often. If their is a cross border element to it, even in cooperative cross border operations requires state dept. notification. That doesn't hardly happen on the south border because nobody trusts anybody in Mexican law enforcement.

I don't know how feeding the lowest rung of the cartel's weapons buying organization is supposed to take down a cartel on the other side of an international border. Especially when you never told the other country. That excuse just doesn't make sense.

[Secret Agent Man]

Good old BATFE.

[Tupelo]

I have been hearing snips and bits of the Gun Walker scandal for the past month or so. That has got me thinking. The Feds told us that a huge percentage of the guns used by the Mexican drug cartels were smuggled into Mexico from the United States. Now we find out the Federal Government via the BATFE was involved in smuggling guns into Mexico.

The Fed have been telling us that Americans using drugs are the reason that the drug cartels are smuggling drugs into the Unite States. I now wonder just how much of these drugs the United States via the DEA is buying.

[Tupelo]

I have been hearing snips and bits of the Gun Walker scandal for the past month or so. That has got me thinking. The Feds told us that a huge percentage of the guns used by the Mexican drug cartels were smuggled into Mexico from the United States. Now we find out the Federal Government via the BATFE was involved in smuggling guns into Mexico.

The Fed have been telling us that Americans using drugs are the reason that the drug cartels are smuggling drugs into the Unite States. I now wonder just how much of these drugs the United States via the DEA is buying.

[Tupelo]

I have been hearing snips and bits of the Gun Walker scandal for the past month or so. That has got me thinking. The Feds told us that a huge percentage of the guns used by the Mexican drug cartels were smuggled into Mexico from the United States. Now we find out the Federal Government via the BATFE was involved in smuggling guns into Mexico.

The Fed have been telling us that Americans using drugs are the reason that the drug cartels are smuggling drugs into the Unite States. I now wonder just how much of these drugs the United States via the DEA is buying.

[Tupelo]

Sorry, I did not mean to post 3 times.
I got an error message three times and tried again therr times. My bad

[Navy Patriot]

Key witness/suspect flees for Rio!

LOL, in fact, last I heard, the United States does NOT have an extradition treaty with Brazil.

[The Magical Mischief Tour]

It really should be noted that anytime there is a huge federal law enforcement Charlie foxtrot the ATF is always involved...

[Sprite518]

Bingo! All they do is lie to us while we try our best to be good citizens and pay our taxes.

[Caipirabob]

An open attempt to generate a socialist-made false crisis as an excuse for a gun-grab in the states.

The conspirators should be tracked down and served hot justice, no matter how high the trail leads.

[zeugma]

I wouldn’t have any problem with this if they could get the guns into the hands of your average mexican, rather than the drug cartels. Of course, the majority of the cartel’s guns come from the U.S. government anyway, properly laundered through the mexican military. Hint: They aren’t buying their grenades from Texas gun shops!

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***Good old BATFE.****

Making an ass of themselves ever since the 1968 gun control act was passed.

I remember when they raided an antique gun store in Tulsa OK, because the store had imported, in violation of the 1968 GCA, FOREIGN MILITARY ARMAMENTS,...European made Musket flints.

And then there was that Kevin Ballew thing in DC area in which they raided and shot the homeowner for having “illegal guns”. A copy of a Walker Colt black poweder pistol.

[Howie]

[marktwain]

“Hoping to score a major prosecution of Mexican drug lords”

This supposed motivation of the BATF doesn't pass the smell test. How was this supposed prosecution supposed to work? The drug lords are already engaged in numerous violations of law, but are beyond prosecution because they are in a sovereign country where the rule of law has pretty much broken down. How does fostering their accumulating of low level small arms from the US make prosecuting them any easier?

It doesn't, really, but it does up the statistics of guns in Mexico obtained from US gun stores, making the case for more US government infringements of Second Amendment rights to the MSM. Building BATF statistics of American guns in Mexico seems a far more likely and plausible motive than building an improbable case against Mexican drug lords.