March 30, 2011 - 3:38 pm
Following up on what I’ve previously posted on the ATF Gunwalker scandal, where the ATF allowed thousands of guns purchased in the U.S. by Mexican drug cartel operatives to be transported across the border including the weapon used to kill a U.S. Border Patrol agent.
Today, Robert Farago at The Truth About Guns (on my daily “must read” blog list) has an excellent summary of the emerging scandal. Go read it now.
“including the weapon used to kill a U.S. Border Patrol agent.”
Really? Who has claimed that?
Reports in the press were that two of the guns found on the site where Agent Terry was killed had been found to be part of Project Gunrunner. To date nobody has claimed that the two guns were even fired during the shootout, just that they were found “on the site”, whatever that means.
Actually Tom, read a little. There are many news articles that lay out that Brian Terry was armed with bean bag non lethal rounds. Was subsequently fired upon with an ak47 ‘pistol’ that had no stock. The serial number from that gun was directly traced to a straw purchaser in Phoenix who was one of 50 such people under surveillance, and those 50 people had been observed and documented buying over 2,500 firearms, for over a YEAR’s time. Within 48 hours, the atf hand arrested the purchaser, and eleven others directly related to the buying of that ak47.
Also, a half hour was wasted moving agent Terry to a second helicopter several miles away, while the fu@$&ing drug dealer was given immediate medivac to a hospital. Part of a policy (like the beanbags) where we go easy on illegal alien drug dealing cancerous Mexican nationals.
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Or is this a reference to another incident? It’s hard to keep track sometimes.