October 5, 2011
A new CBS News report reveals that "walking" guns to Mexican drug trafficking oranizations and other criminals is not a new practice by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (BATFE), and was in fact going on during the Bush administration:
That, obviously, never happened. This brilliant idea was called "Operation Wide Receiver," and was just as idiotically incapable of achieving its ostensible purpose of "bringing down a drug cartel" as the much more recent "Operation Fast and Furious" (and other, similar "Project Gunwalker" operations under the Obama administration).
So what, then, is the difference between the two?
Well, for one, four or five years ago, we didn't have the administration (from the President on down), the mass media, and "gun control" advocates incessantly claiming that, "[Some variable, but invariably wildly inflated] percentage of seized Mexican crime guns come from the U.S.," imposing on us the moral imperative to "strengthen" our "weak gun laws."
We didn't have a requirement in the southwest border states to report multiple long gun sales--a requirement for which "walked" guns ouf of "Operation Fast and Furious" were used as justification.
Nor did we have guns "walked" from Indiana to Chicago used to attempt to impose extra reporting requirements on and Indiana gun dealer.
At this point, we don't seem to have any evidence that earlier "gunwalking" involved the FBI, the DEA, DHS, the State Department, the IRS, and even the White House Security Council.
In a report on "The Early Show," CBS News investigative correspondent Sharyl Attkisson said a confidential informant has come forward "with a fascinating story of how U.S. agents began letting guns 'walk' across the Mexican border - more than four years ago."For the story, CBS investigative reporter (and Obama administration punching bag) Sharyl Attkisson interviewed Mike Detty, a gun dealer who stated that starting in 2006, he worked as a confidential informant for BATFE's Tucson office, selling hundreds of AK-47 variant rifles to obvious traffickers. Detty had been led by BATFE to believe that the guns he sold would soon be interdicted, as part of a plan (this should sound familiar) to "bring down a drug cartel."
That, obviously, never happened. This brilliant idea was called "Operation Wide Receiver," and was just as idiotically incapable of achieving its ostensible purpose of "bringing down a drug cartel" as the much more recent "Operation Fast and Furious" (and other, similar "Project Gunwalker" operations under the Obama administration).
So what, then, is the difference between the two?
Well, for one, four or five years ago, we didn't have the administration (from the President on down), the mass media, and "gun control" advocates incessantly claiming that, "[Some variable, but invariably wildly inflated] percentage of seized Mexican crime guns come from the U.S.," imposing on us the moral imperative to "strengthen" our "weak gun laws."
We didn't have a requirement in the southwest border states to report multiple long gun sales--a requirement for which "walked" guns ouf of "Operation Fast and Furious" were used as justification.
Nor did we have guns "walked" from Indiana to Chicago used to attempt to impose extra reporting requirements on and Indiana gun dealer.
At this point, we don't seem to have any evidence that earlier "gunwalking" involved the FBI, the DEA, DHS, the State Department, the IRS, and even the White House Security Council.
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