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Digest Friday, September 30, 2011

Culture & Policy

Second Amendment: A Surprise Gunrunner Buyer

The scandal surrounding the ATF's Operation Fast and Furious just took another turn for the worse. Fox News reports, "Not only did U.S. officials approve, allow and assist in the sale of more than 2,000 guns to the Sinaloa cartel -- the federal government used taxpayer money to buy semi-automatic weapons, sold them to criminals and then watched as the guns disappeared."

Obviously, this finding runs counter to the Justice Department's claim that Fast and Furious was "botched" and that agents just "lost track" of the guns headed south. In fact, it appears that the Department's intent was that the guns would become lost in Mexico. Again,

Fox News: "According to documents obtained by Fox News, Agent John Dodson was ordered to buy six semi-automatic Draco pistols -- two of those were purchased at the Lone Wolf gun store in Peoria, Ariz. An unusual sale, Dodson was sent to the store with a letter of approval from David Voth, an ATF group supervisor.

Dodson then sold the weapons to known illegal buyers, while fellow agents watched from their cars nearby.

" Dodson blew the whistle after Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was killed with a gun from the operation in December 2010.

It was bad enough that Terry and possibly hundreds of others lost their lives to supposed government incompetence. But it's an entirely different matter when the government acted with intent.

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