More “Fast and Furious” weapons found at violent crime scenes
According to the Washington Times the Justice Department admitted that at least a dozen more weapons that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE) allowed to transfer to illegal users have been found to be involved in violent crimes across the Southwest US;
In a letter to Sen. Patrick J. Leahy, Vermont Democrat and chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and the committee’s ranking Republican, Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, the Justice Department confirmed that the illegally purchased weapons recently were found at the sites of at least 11 violent crimes.
The department did not specifically identify any of the locations, but congressional sources and others said the weapons were located at crime sites in Arizona and Texas. More than 40 weapons, the sources said, were recovered near El Paso, Texas, alone, all of which were traced back to the Fast and Furious operation.
Gun owners and gun dealers have been set up by the government to take the fall for their incompetent handling of the illegal weapons trade.
The BATFE hasn’t been able to account for more than a thousand of the weapons;
Asked how many guns from all the suspects in the Fast and Furious operation had not been recovered, the department wrote that “the total number of firearms purchased by all of the suspects [indicted and unindicted] after they were entered in this investigation that have not yet been recovered and traced in Mexico or the U.S. is one thousand forty-eight [1,048].”
Feel safer?
Category: Gun Grabbing Fascists, Guns
And then the government, not wanting to waste a crisis that they themselves created, decides to make an assault on the 2nd amendment rights of gun owners in the border states and beyond. How convenient. It’s almost as if they planned to do that…
If a Republican president had this happen on their watch, it would be the new Watergate/Iran-Contra/blow-jobgate of this generation. As it is, this will be swept under the rug as soon as journalistically possible.
At what point will this president cross the line? We’re still in Libya (despite lacking congressional approval), This Fast and Furious, for all practical reasons started a war in Mexico (which continues to rage), his handling of the economy has only made it worse, he’s slashed the military budget and ordered new offensives despite drawing down troops, which is causing a lot of death.
God forbid any conservative should do this badly. They’d impeach him before he even had a chance to finish his first term.
It is interesting, and probably predictable, that weapons allowed to get through to Mexican drug cartels are now showing up at US crime scenes. Almost like a dye marker in a water source.
SGT K, I’d say this would be bigger than all three of those put together. We would never hear the end of it: The Republican administration was in bed with Mexican drug cartels, sending them weapons while leaving the border open to them, and intentionally getting Americans killed in order to use their deaths as political tools for the administration’s objectives. That’s how it would be repeated till the end of time. Incidentally, replace “Republican” with “Democrat”, and that’s pretty much what appears to have happened, but that’s one narrative that will never show up in the media.
Anti 2nd Amendment false flag anyone?
#2 Sgt K: under Bush, Border Patrol agents who used their firearms while apprehending criminals were sent to jail. This policy, vigorously enforced by US Attorney in Texas, paved the way for Fast & Furious and other transgressions.
Hey the guys in charge of that operation obviously did a good job because they all got promoted. I wonder if the Big O has a plan for this also…
JPJ #8, yeah, 3 of them got promoted to higher jobs in D.C., perhaps so that Holder and O can keep an eye on them?
If this had been a Republican administration, the articles of impeachment would have already been drawn up.
As the T shirt says:
“Am I the only person on the planet who HASN’T gotten an F&F weapon from BAT-feces?”
#10 That is one awesome shirt.
They should start investigating that false Gun Show “loophole” they’ve been after for years. Something tells me that they’ve been planted that as well.