Thank you sir. Despite JW’s merits elsewhere, this article feels like slight of hand. It invokes Fast And furious, then gives nada to tie this particular gun sale to F and F, other than Phoenix. It omits to identify the buyer and seller; yet the chain of custody from manufacturer to jihadi is (or should be) the raison d’etre of the story. Surely the seller’s name isn’t “Phoenix gun owner”. Makes me wonder what is being covered up, by whom, and why.
Thanks. It simply did not pass the smell test for me.
At times the phrases used reveal things unsaid. That “off book” comment would be more appropriate for a gun dealer. Some trade in guns and have no “book”. That is legal if it is not a business. Not sure how that is determined.
And my assessment of this is in spite of the good opinion I have of JW.