ATF agents running an undercover storefront in Milwaukee used a brain-damaged man with a low IQ to set up gun and drug deals, paying him in cigarettes, merchandise and money, according to federal documents obtained by the Journal Sentinel.

Why is it that all of ATF’s Operation whatevers result in putting more guns in the hands of criminals?

To keep track of who your friends are. This already exists and is a product the police use. I know because a policeman acquaintance of mine showed it to me. He entered my name and some identifying info and it spit out people that I knew. This was 8 or so years ago. Kind of creepy.

40 agents showed. No arrests and no firearms confiscated. Odd case. What it was about seems to be this:

A person is required to obtain a federal explosives manufacturing license if they intend to engage in the business of manufacturing explosives for sale, distribution or for their own business, Coes said.

The ATF believed that Myers was violating this law.

“The claim is that he was using explosives and getting paid for it via YouTube,” Coes said.

So, you can’t use your product in advertisement?

Via Johnny.

Information Week on that gun registry the feds are not allowed, by law, to have:

A key piece of the White House’s gun control plan — the process by which the feds use serial numbers and descriptions to trace the original source of a gun sale — is at risk of failure. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is using 1960s era technology to manage a 21st century problem. And nothing is being done to fix it.

Current pick as head of ATF in more trouble

ATF sets up fake gun store to catch illegal gun dealers. Loses machine gun. Catches no illegal dealers.

Good.

No relation

Seems that the DC police cannot confirm TMZ’s source that David Gregory got a get out of jail free card. Now, DC police and ATF are having a back and forth over.

It’s a bit ironic to me that Gregory is now victim of something ATF is famous for: Giving you approval and then later changing its mind.

Pistol purchased by ATF agent found at alleged cartel crime scene in Mexico. Also, seems the agent provided false information on his 4473 which is a crime that the ATF would arrest you for.

The NRA says that that the ATF is taking comments. These comment periods tend to precede some sort of new reg.

Katie Pavlich:

According to credible ATF sources, officials heavily involved in Operation Fast and Furious and named as partially responsible for the program’s failure by Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz and the House Oversight Committee have been stripped of their government security clearances while some have been fired, demoted, and transferred. Criminal charges are also reportedly pending.

Lawyers from DOJ to settle the case. It’s a lot of words for very little information.

Two men sentenced in case. A couple of straw buyers. Not sure what role they played in fast and furious other than dupes.

Holder on his way out? Good.

Mexican Cartel Bought Guns From U.S. Border Patrol

Issa’s latest report divulged for the first time that Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.’s office originally planned for him to go to Arizona to announce the results of the Fast and Furious investigation before Justice Department officials abruptly dropped the idea when guns from the operation showed up at the murder scene of the border agent

A judge speeds the contempt case up. Gee, why is that?

Judge judging fast and furious is an Obama appointee. Just in time for the news that congress has a report stating that it was a deliberate strategy put forth by Eric Holder.

A guy who works for me from Mexico was singing the praises of Obama and planned on voting for him. I googled up Fast and Furious then hit the translate into Spanish button and handed him the phone. He read and cussed.  He changed his tune.  One at  time, I guess.

And I was surprised he wasn’t aware of it already.

Holder, in his official capacity, asks court to drop fast and furious case.

On staff grief counselor blows off agent, goes drinking. He killed himself.

Friendly fire killed border agent, not fast and furious gun.

More fast and furious hits keep coming

At a drug corridor in Arizona.

The movie trailer

A recap of Univision’s fast and furious piece.

Whistleblower says Fortune should retract their BS story about gun walking.

Univision is going to run a piece on fast and furious. They’ve uncovered more fast and furious deaths too. More from David.

The ATF has nothing better to do than to issue a serial number to an otherwise untransferable firearm so it may be auctioned. Seems Bonnie’s gun (of Bonnie and Clyde) that was strapped to her when the police introduced her insides to the outside is worth something and will be auctioned.

I’m not quite sure how this squares with the law or ATF regulations.

Seems ATF is having a hard time getting it’s cases prosecuted in Reno. And the agents are leaving.

Good.

Seems the agency has unresolved “issues” and the US Attorney isn’t a fan.

Fast and furious, that is:

“Having worked in Mexico, Central America, and northern South America, I can tell you the guns are not coming from the US . . . They come mostly from Asia, Eastern Europe–including Russia and Ukraine–and from stocks of older weapons held in Central America from years of warfare, and the overwhelming majority of those are of Soviet/Russian/Chinese design and fabrication.”

Wait, the media is truthful on Fast and Furious?

I’ve never heard Fast And Furious mentioned by the local press. Well, until now when they cleared Holder.