NRA-ILA :: Senator Grassley Presses BATFE On Project Gunrunner
Just what we need, a Government Agency breaking the law in order to manufacture a problem claimed, yet in reality only happens when they, that is Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE, a.k.a. ATF), create and manufacture the problem themselves. This time it cost the life of another government employee, who was on the front line attempting to protect us from criminals armed by the BATFE.
From the news release;
Pointing to documentation that guns used by Mexican nationals in a shootout with Border Patrol agents were allowed to be sold under suspicious circumstances with the knowledge of the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, U.S. Senator Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) is calling on the agency to fully respond to his inquiries into the case. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was killed in that encounter on Dec. 14 of last year.
More from Arizona Daily Star
Jaime Avila, arrested on Dec. 15 in connection with a gun-smuggling ring, purchased three AK-47 variant weapons from a gun dealer in Glendale on Jan. 16, 2010. The ATF entered the serial numbers of the three guns in the National Tracing Center's suspect gun database three days later, Grassley wrote. The ATF continued tracking Avila's firearm purchases over the next several months, Grassley wrote.
The serial numbers of two of the weapons recovered from the scene of the Dec. 14 gunfight matched two of the weapons purchased in Glendale, Grassley wrote.Why does the Terry family need answers?
"The Terry family deserves answers," Grassley wrote. "The whistleblowers have expressed a desire to honor agent Terry's memory by disclosing this information. The Justice Department should work to do the same. The best way to honor his memory is to come clean."
It is alleged the BATFE set up the purchases for the weapons by convincing gun dealers to allow the purchases to go through in order to track the weapons. In other words they had law abiding gun dealers break the law.
If this is true then two things here we must understand, first of all, the the illegal straw purchases wouldn't had happen if the gun dealers were not approached by the BATFE to break the law in the first place, and two, Brain Terry would not have been killed by guns in question made available by this alleged sting operation.
Whoever was in charge of this alleged sting operation and/or approved it, would be an accomplice in the murder of Brain Terry.
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