ATF Shenanigans in Mexico Keep Making The Press
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms — the agency tasked with keeping U.S. guns from being smuggled to Mexico — has come under fire for allegedly allowing firearms to cross the border into Mexico.
Last Friday, Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) sent a letter to the ATF stating that his office had “received numerous allegations that the ATF sanctioned the sale of hundreds of assault weapons to suspected straw purchasers, who then allegedly transported these weapons throughout the Southwest border area and into Mexico.”
The WaPo picks up on it too but with a rather passive voice:
Whistleblowers who have contacted a U.S. senator allege that federal agents allowed guns, including the AK-47s, to be sold to suspected straw buyers who transported the weapons throughout the region and into Mexico.
February 3rd, 2011 at 10:59 am
This may well serve to be a huge scandal, as it should if it’s true.
Time to grab some popcorn and watch it unfold.
February 3rd, 2011 at 12:58 pm
Still don’t see why they’d piddle with a few semiautos at a time, at US retail prices, when they can rock & roll with truckloads of the real thing for probably 10% of the price.
February 3rd, 2011 at 4:54 pm
Taking bets here. Do you think this will get us any of the usual do-nothing “congressional hearings”?
If so, I wonder if they’ll enter in the Nuevo Laredo Cartel Gun Battle into the hearing?
That little powerpoint presentation may have been crafted as propaganda to get some agency some more money, but it would be just dandy to show the all too well intended consequences from the BATFU willfully gunwalking AKs across the border.
Not to mention all the blood, brains, and guts that were spilled because the Tobacco Ninjas needed to drum up some business to justify their budget and didn’t have a WACO around to shoot up this time.
February 3rd, 2011 at 4:59 pm
How is the BATFU going to justify it’s budget if the AKs came from the Norks in exchange for $25 worth of diesel and a few boxes of Cuban cigars?
They have to be US sourced guns to justify increased US budgets and additional US gun laws and regulations.
February 3rd, 2011 at 6:02 pm
So they’re creating problems that they can then “solve” by infringing on the rights of regular Americans? Surely that never, ever happens…
Anyway; you know this is all because of U.S. gun shows, right? We know for absolute certain that no commie/narco state could ever acquire guns if it weren’t for American gun shows. I mean; Duh!
February 6th, 2011 at 12:21 am
You mean, Customs on both sides of the border are allowing weapons to be “transported” in? I’d like to see the manifests…
“Smuggling” is likely the correct term here. I’d also like to see the sales figures and receipts on these sales. I will bet there are none forthcoming.
Not to mention that people have been jailed for having a single .22 cartridge in a vehicle crossing the border. I’m tired of hearing about this “story”, I want to see the evidence.