Tag: Operation Fast and Furious

Point of Order

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.

Gun Prohibitionists Using Pincer Strategy with Reports on U.S. Arms in Mexico

Fingers would be better pointed at Mexico’s pervasive corruption and tyrannical citizen disarmament edicts that have made a cartel black market both lucrative and inevitably bloody. [More]

The media pulling the same deceptions we saw before Operation Fast and Furious “Gunwalking” makes this déjà vu all over again.

Point/Counterpoint

Armed with military-grade weapons smuggled from the U.S., the 50-man force is one of dozens of “autodefensa,” or “self-defense,” groups that have emerged over the past decade in Mexico to fight increasingly sophisticated cartels in areas far out of the reach of security forces. [More]

Which FFL are they getting them from?

And just to show there are two sides to every story:

We Traced How U.S. Guns Get to Mexican Cartels [More]

How come commie Antifa/No Kings types never come after cartels? Are the defenders worth siding with? Let God sort ’em out?

American guns fueling Mexican violence, so we need to curtail rights here? This looks like just what the media narrative was before all hell broke loose.

New York Times Returns to Old Playbook in Attack on Lake City Ammunition

What we’re seeing is a practical repeat of what the anti-gunners and their media amplifiers were telling the American public prior to “Gunwalker” in an attempt to swindle them out of their rights… [More]

It’s déjà vu all over again.

Forgetting Their Place

A father and son living in Alabama pleaded guilty in Laredo, Texas, to attempting to traffick over 500 weapons and a cache of ammunition over the border. Emilio Ramirez Cortes, 48, a Mexican citizen who legally resides in Albertville, Alabama, and his son, Edgar Emilio Ramirez Diaz, 23, also of Albertville, have now admitted to smuggling of goods from the United States and trafficking firearms, U.S. Attorney Nicholas Ganjei announced. [More]

Who do they think they are? ATF?

[Via bondmen]

Project Guntrucker

ICE, CBP seize 400 firearms hidden in fake trailer walls at southern border crossing… HSI officials said the guns were headed into Mexico, where cartels fuel ongoing violence. [More]

That’s what happens when you’re not sanctioned. Funny, how a little bit of border security works, almost like the lack of it was deliberate.

But as we all know, this isn’t how the cartels gets their “good” stuff.

Shoot, I could’a told ’em that 16 years ago.

Related UPDATE

Note that last link was from April 2009, nine months before Mike Vanderboegh and I started our Fast and Furious reporting, but worth mentioning because it helps show how we were positioned to use the information we uncovered subsequent to the murder of Border Patrol agent Brian Terry that kicked the whole thing off.

I mention that because of this:

I appreciate the recognition. Most were never told and will never know.

You’ll not find our names here (I’ve been told by those who tried that attempts to add them have been edited out) or in an incentivized media narrative.

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