That’s what the House says. Also, turns out the cartel ringleaders were FBI informants.

Everyone knew about fast and furious except Holder. Tell me another one.

So, ATF lets guns go to Mexico. Some are used to murder a border agent. And some are used to murder, by some accounts, hundreds of Mexicans. So ABC news reports that, right? No. They do a report on how Eric Holder’s little feelings are hurt.

About Fast and Furious.

Also, 3 questions not asked about it.

Update: Holder either knew or was willfully ignorant.

Mentioned before but bears repeating: Proof that F&F Was a Plot to Bring About Gun Control.

DOJ had extensive involvement with F&F.

Woe is Holder

That’s Holder’s latest claim

The Obama administration only knows the one song: It’s Bush’s fault.

Slain agent’s family suing for $25M.

Joyce Foundation anti-gun shills have ties to ATF brass. But remember, kids, if you think that the ATF allowing guns to be smuggled into Mexico was an attempt at “under the radar” gun control, you’re just a lunatic.

Issa threatens Holder with contempt.

Folks with Ds after their names are covering up the ATF scandal.

Folks with Ds after their names blame Arizona.

Investigation is a sham.

Joe: [Dennis Burke] was a driving force behind the “assault weapon” ban of 1994. Operation Fast and Furious was secretly launched just one month after his appointment as U.S. attorney was confirmed by the U.S. Senate.

His anti-gun history makes the AZ press.

In Mexico where criminals are armed with all kinds of weaponry, some of it provided by the US government, the otherwise law-abiding citizens are taking up arms for self-defense. A good read. They advocate the Mexican government have another look at its archaic and restrictive gun laws.

Maybe ATF could walk some guns to the good guys?

Holder knew about Brian Terry’s murder.

Issa’s letter to Eric Holder over Fast and Furious and pleading the fifth.

Apparently, after the state of the union (not good, btw), a panel will take questions from twitter and facebook. And there’s some good questions to be asked about ATF and Fast and Furious. You can use the #SOTU or you can go to Sean’s where he has some links you can click to do it automagically.

Their legislature is apparently not too happy with the DOJ’s investigation.

Heh. You can get the shirt here.

Issa hits up AZ US Attorney Criminal Division Chief, who also resigned.

So, it seems ATF had another gun smuggling operation called White Gun. I don’t want to spoil the ending but it seems they lost guns again.

Prosecutors are asking for unsealing of documents in Fast and Furious.

Boston.com looks at the Fast and Furious predecessor. Except it’s not.

Also, gunwalker has its own wikipedia page. I did not know that.

Buying silence from the conspirators?

Mike and David report that ATF has relieved Fast and Furious managers from duty just before the OIG report. Is Holder doing something or have the scapegoats been found?

The other biased Washington paper notes the arbitrary nature of ATF letter rulings for determining the lawfulness guns:

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is in charge of determining whether a gun model is legal, but the agency won’t say much about its criteria.

Despite overseeing an industry that includes machine guns and other deadly weapons, ATF regulations for the manufacture of weapons are often unclear, leading to reliance on a secretive system by which firearms manufacturers can submit proposed weapons for testing and find out one at a time whether they comply with the law, critics say.

The ATF recommends that manufacturers voluntarily submit weapons for case-by-case determination. But those judgments are private and, it turns out, sometimes contradictory. Critics say nearly identical prototypes can be approved for one manufacturer but denied for another.

There’s no set procedure, it doesn’t seem. Sometimes, they approve things then promptly change their mind. Or approve one thing and not another near identical thing. And:

Robert E. Sanders, an ATF official for 24 years who is now a North Carolina lawyer specializing in firearms matters, said letter rulings are often “definitely contradictory and inconsistent,” but are necessary because the regulations being applied are ill-defined.

And these letters don’t serve as much of a defense, should they change their mind.

And good to see firearms regulation expert Len Savage cited.

14 inch 12ga shotgun that is not an NFA item.

More here.

Gun manufacturing laws are quite ridiculous and manipulated by ATF a lot. Nice to see the rules being bent the other way.

Other NFA hacks here and here.

Eric Holder says More cops slain by illegal guns. How many guns did your agency put on the street?

A look at their recent report on Firearms Commerce in the United States 2011.

ATF takes 237 days to approve a NFA transfer. You know, these transfers should consist solely of a NICS type of check, which can be done in minutes. Not sure what the hold up could be.

In NC, ATF will not approve transfers without an NC machine gun permit.

Justice Dept. blames critics for noticing Holder’s race-card play

Stop me if you’ve heard this before: they blame Bush.

Eric Holder pulls out the race card.

Get a prescription and lose your second amendment rights.