NRA NEWS
- The New York Times A federal agent who helped supervise the gun trafficking investigation known as Operation Fast and Furious told Congress on Tuesday that he had made mistakes during the effort to dismantle a network that was funneling assault weapons to Mexican drug cartels. Read More | Read Other News | ||
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BATFE
'stonewalled' agents on botched gun probe, report says - CNN U.S. officials kept their Mexican counterparts in the dark about a widely criticized gun trafficking probe even as rising numbers of weapons reached the hands of Mexico's drug cartels, a congressional committee reported Tuesday. The Justice Department's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives also held back key details about "Operation Fast and Furious" from agents based in Mexico City when they raised alarms, according to the report. Read More | Read Other News |
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BATFE
accused in Congressional report of 'arming' cartel for 'war' through Operation
Fast and Furious - Fox News The failed federal anti gunrunning program known as Operation Fast and Furious got so out of control in November 2009, it appeared the U.S. government was single handedly "arming for war" the Sinaloa Cartel, documents show, even as U.S. officials kept lying to fellow agents in Mexico about the volume of guns it helped send south of the border. Read More | Read Other News |
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Gunwalker
scandal called "perfect storm of idiocy" - CBS News In advance of a hearing later today, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform released a report containing new testimony and allegations in the ATF gunwalker case. According to the report, Carlos Canino, Acting ATF Attache in Mexico, calls the strategy his agency employed: "The perfect storm of idiocy." Read More | Read Other News |
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Democrats
oppose Obama U.N. gun control treaty - U.S. News & World Report Twelve Democratic senators have joined 45 Republicans in a fast growing movement to halt progress on an Obama backed United Nations effort that could bring international gun control into the United States and slap America's gun owners with severe restrictions. Read More | Read Other News |
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Barr:
Chicago thumbs nose at courts with anti-gun ordinances - The Atlanta Journal Constitution Chicago, long a city in the grip of anti firearms politicians like former Mayor Richard Daley, has again had its hands slapped by a federal court. Still, the Windy City, now headed by former Clintonista, Rahm Emanuel, is unlikely to change its ways without further challenges by firearms rights groups and citizens who desire only to be able to defend themselves with a firearm if they so choose. Read More | Read Other News |
