The “Operation Fast and Furious under Obama was another democratic blunder… ATF “purposely allowed licensed firearms dealers to sell weapons to illegal straw buyers, hoping to track the guns to Mexican drug cartel leaders and arrest them… [More]
Overall, this is an informed and thoughtful comment, but I am compelled to add some clarification to these impressions.
“Botched gun sting” is a media narrative used to mask intent. You can’t let the guns go and expect to track them anywhere, and those behind the plot knew that. I’ve been cautioning against believing it for years, but my small voice can’t be heard through all the noise.
This was a deliberate and criminal plot to set up conditions where U.S. guns would be found at violent and bloody crime scenes with the intent of using that to justify imposing citizen disarmament edicts here, particularly over semiautos and their magazines. They knew people would be killed. They couldn’t NOT know.
Ecerybody remember the Underpants Gnomes?
As a lawyer friend advised me’n Mike at the time: They were salting the mine.
