What happened to all that Homeland Security money?
Oh, yeah, we spent it all on an armored personnel carrier for Dellview, North Carolina.
Violent crime has increased in some cities in recent years in part because local police are too cash-strapped to fight it, the ATF chief said Monday.
The comments by Michael J. Sullivan, acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, echo pleas by mayors across the country for more federal dollars to combat crime.
In an interview with The Associated Press, Sullivan called battling violent crime the No. 1 priority of ATF and said the agency is trying to help cities with federal task forces and technology.
And that is why ATF is targeting gun dealers who make clerical mistakes on onerous government forms; shutting down dealers who acted in good faith on ATF’s written opinion that products were lawful; and prosecuting people whose firearms malfunction.
May 13th, 2008 at 10:47 am
Olofson’s sentencing is supposed to be sometime today.
May 13th, 2008 at 3:27 pm
You couldn’t possibly have expected any truth out of Sullivan, Hell even fedeeral judges have castigated him for his disingenuousness and poor character. And they’re basically on the same side.
May 13th, 2008 at 3:54 pm
Olofson needs a presidential pardon.
May 15th, 2008 at 2:42 am
Are there ANY cases where the ATFU has gone after REAL criminals within the past year? 5 years? 10 years? 15 years? Ever?
Chances are slim, but even if there are, did they prosecute to the fullest extent of the laws, with every single charge they could? Or did they just plea deal and wind up with the guy on the street in 5 years to put his new found knowledge and skills to bad use feeding off those non-criminals like Olofson and Fincher who they sent up the river?