[Rio]

Hidden camera captures ATF gun buy sting

Is a Makarov worth $520?

ATF criticized because they set up their operation next to a school, luring their customers into the school's proximity... and because apparently the crooks that they caught were not very bright.

[gaijin]

Busting or killing church people, addicts, retarded people...

Take ATF out of the equation and THE CRIME DISAPPEARS.

Taxpayers finance CRIME CREATION?

Yes.

[Mastador1]

Is a Makarov worth $520?

Hell no! I bought one at a gun show six or seven years ago for $110, that pay out would have tipped anyone with a functioning brain that there was something wrong. I guess there is no limit to how stupidly and freely the government will use our tax dollars.

[SampleMan]

Only a fed would pay $520 for a Makarov. Clue #1

[Iron Munro]

[43north]

ATF and e is where “law enforcement” types who can’t make the grade in other agencies of fedgov wind up. It has always been so. It could be said that they may TSA look pretty good.

Lately the FBI has been trying to crawl into the swamp with them but they have to get DHS out of their way first.

[RC one]

Glover said agents told them they would become lifetime members of the store if they had the store's logo tattooed on them.

Glover said they agreed. "Okay, we'll do it," he recalled telling the agents.

They convinced this dipshiite to tattoo the "store" logo, a cigar smoking squid, on his body. That's actually pretty funny.

[Robert357]

“...They paid her $520 in cash and two cartons of Marlboros for the Makarov semi-automatic pistol...” That is way too much money for a Makarov. $250 to $400, but not $520 for an obviously illegal purchase, which is usually heavily discounted.

It would be nice to see someone arrest the ATF agents for failing to fill out the Oregon State required firearm transfer paperwork. In Oregon even private transfers are required to go through the paperwork. Of course the ATF is above the law, just ask them.

[xp38]

[SWAMPSNIPER]

ATF makes their own laws as needed!

[Milton Miteybad]

From the linked article: "He and his team ended their elaborate eight-month undercover sting in March 2011 by arresting 48 people who sold drugs and guns to Squid's. But now the $150,000 operation -- which recovered only 10 stolen guns, none traced to a crime -- is itself being investigated for its methods, including targeting mentally impaired individuals."

Total cost: $15,000 per gun recovered, none of which were linked to any criminal activity whatsoever.

Who came up with the idea for the operation, anyway? Barry Soetoro? Sounds like something he'd think up.

[TigersEye]

Still, the operation was "extremely successful" at getting guns out of circulation, Assistant U.S. Attorney Scott Kerin told The Oregonian. He led the federal prosecution team.

"When ... people are selling sawed off shotguns, you want those out of the community," Kerin said. "You have this violence just waiting to happen."

Right, Scott, guns are just 'violence waiting to happen.' You're a mind-numbed politically correct robot, Scott.