DoJ in “panic mode” over gun trafficking operation
Fox News reports that the Justice Department is peeing in their collective drawers over the congressional investigation scheduled for next week being billed as “Reckless Decisions, Tragic Outcomes” regarding the “Fast and Furious” Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives operation intended to stem the flow of guns from the US to Mexico but had the opposite effect;
Mexican officials estimate 150 of their people have been shot by Fast and Furious guns. Police have recovered roughly 700 guns at crime scenes, 250 in the U.S. and the rest in Mexico, including five AK-47s found at a cartel warehouse in Juarez last month.
A high-powered sniper rifle was used to shoot down a Mexican military helicopter. Two other Romanian-made AK-47s were found in a shoot-out that left 11 dead in the state of Jalisco three weeks ago.
The guns were traced to the Lone Wolf Gun Store in Glendale, Ariz., and were sold only after the store employees were told to do so by the ATF.
It is illegal to buy a gun for anyone but yourself. However, ATF’s own documents show it allowed just 15 men to buy 1,725 guns, and 1,318 of those were after the purchasers officially became targets of investigation.
Arizona gun store owners say they were explicitly told by the ATF to sell the guns, sometimes 20, 30, even up to 40 in a single day to single person.
And those orders, from at least one ATF case agent, are on audio recording.
“We would say, ‘Do you (the ATF) want us to stop selling, is there something we should do here?'” Brad DeSayes, owner of J&G Gun Sales in Prescott, said. “And they would say, ‘No, no, no, keep selling – just tell us after the fact.'”
Sure, when the real criminal is the gun, who’s to blame?
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I just don’t get this. What am I missing? What were the ATF guys trying to accomplish? What did the store owners plan to accomplish? I mean, if the law is one per, or whatever, why would they say to sell them as many as they wanted? What could the planned intention, however faulty, have been?
How do you even THINK like a beauracracy?
So much for that whole ‘gun show loophole’ bullshit…
“What did the store owners plan to accomplish?”
The gun store owners did what they were told because if the ATF wants to pull your FFL they’ll find a reason. You cooperate with them because they can and will destroy your livelihood if they feel like it.
The ATF is just a screwed up organization…
Here’s the thing, though: these gun shop owners are going to take a hard fall, with lots of jail time and penalties, for failing to adhere to the “Flounder Principle.” This also happened to the CIA Interrogators. The Flounder Principle, according to Instapundit, is “You f*cked up. You trusted us!”
The BATF can screw up all it wants. The gun shop owners have no such immunity should the Feds want to prosecute.
Damned if you do, damned if you don’t. Understand the USSR and Nazi Germany worked under the same principle.
“What were the ATF guys trying to accomplish?” Boo, near as I can tell, the ATF was trying to get guns in the hands of the Mexican cartels, so that somewhere down the road, they, or more likely, the Mexican government could blame American citizens for funneling guns to the same cartels.
UpNorth, the attempt at tying these guns to Americans has already been done.
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