Laws & Rights
Not So Fast, ATF! We’re Still Furious
Remember when the Obama administration (with Biden as VP) gave Mexican drug cartels a bunch of guns?
The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms today condemned a reported plan by the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to destroy firearms associated with Operation Fast & Furious, the deadly Obama-Biden administrationโs โgun walkingโ scheme that turned into a national scandal.
Published reports say the ATF โis set to destroyโ Fast & Furious guns, but Congressman Jim Jordan (R-OH) blasts the idea, asserting โAlthough the ATF apparently intends to forget its dangerous misconduct in Operation Fast and Furious, the scandal is still a matter of public concern. Given the potential for ongoing criminal and possible civil actions, it is not in the interest of justice for the ATF to destroy potential evidence associated with Operation Fast and Furious.โ
CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb concurs with Jordanโs assessment, and took it another step.
โOperation Fast & Furious was only one of several scandals that erupted during the Obama-Biden administration,โ Gottlieb observed, โbut itโs the one that cost the life of Border Patrol agent Brian Terry, and untold numbers of lives in Mexico, along with crimes committed in the United States. Itโs hardly surprising the ATF wants to erase the public memory of this debacle, especially now that Joe Biden is in the White House.โ
By some estimates, Fast & Furious allowed some 2,000 to 2,500 guns to be โwalkedโ across the border after being sold in large quantities during suspected straw purchases, and ultimately straight into the hands of Mexican drug cartels. According to one report, a Justice Department audit found that โthousands of firearms, firearm parts, and ammunition had been stolenโ from an ATF storage site in West Virginia, and that weapons related to Fast & Furious had been improperly stored on top of a gun vault. Former Obama-Biden administration Attorney General Eric Holder was held in contempt of Congress for failing to turn over subpoenaed documents related to the operation.
โFast & Furious was once described to Congress as โthe perfect storm of idiocyโ,โ Gottlieb recalled. โWe canโt allow this deadly scandal to be covered up by the dust of history, and preserving the firearms for ongoing investigations is one way to keep that from happening.โ
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