While most mainstream media outlets have refused to report on this, newly uncovered emails show that one of the aims, if not the chief aim, of Operation Fast and Furious was to forward an anti-gun agenda.
Operation Fast and Furious was a failed sting operation by the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. If you don’t know what Fast and Furious is, blame the media and its reluctance to cover complicated stories that paint Democrats and other leftists in a bad light. Apparently, old-fashioned hard-hitting journalism is not worth the effort unless it taints a conservative.
Because of this, most people will never know there might actually be something more nefarious to the scheme than just a poorly planned and executed sting operation. In fact, it might not even have been a sting operation at all but rather a veiled attempt to further restrict the Second Amendment rights of Americans.
The ATF, in 2009 and 2010, encouraged gun dealers to sell more than 2,000 guns, mostly AK-47s and .50-caliber rifles, to smugglers. The idea, ostensibly, was to catch the “big fish” and to stem the flow of illegal weapons into Mexico.
This plan was so colossally stupid that even a government bureaucrat should have recognized it as such.
After the guns were sold, ATF supervisors ordered field agents not to stop the smugglers at the border. Of the more than 2,000 guns sold, only a small fraction have been recovered, usually at the scene of a violent crime.
The guns the ATF allowed to be delivered to Mexican drug cartels have been used in hundreds of violent crimes and more than 200 murders, including the Dec. 14 killing of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry.
It then took U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, who oversees the ATF, 10 months to apologize to the Terry family for the death of the agent. Also, the Feb. 15 killing of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Jaime Zapata might have been related to the operation as well.
Holder, when questioned by Congress, lied about what he knew and when he knew it. Emails uncovered in October show this. President Barack Obama’s only reaction has been to point to President George W. Bush’s administration and saying they did it too. Earlier this month, at the behest of the Obama administration, a federal judge sealed the records concerning Terry’s death.
What is the president trying to hide?
The truth, of course.
For several years, ATF officials have pushed for more gun control, called Demand Letter 3. Demand Letter 3 requires some 8,500 firearms dealers to report to the ATF if they sell two or more long guns to a single person within five business days.
On April 25, 2011, ATF announced plans to implement Demand Letter 3. The National Shooting Sports Foundation is suing the ATF to stop the new rules because the regulation is an illegal attempt to enforce a law Congress never passed.
The newly uncovered emails show that some ATF officials were using the sales of guns to these gunrunners and Mexican cartels as an excuse to implement Demand Letter 3.
Basically, ATF officials urged gun dealers to illegally sell weapons to gunrunners and then ordered their agents to illegally allow the guns to cross the Mexican border where they could no longer be tracked. The weapons then were used in the murders of more than 200 people, so far, including at least one, possibly two, U.S. law enforcement agents.
ATF officials and Holder then lied about the operation while, at the same time, made the claim that the large number of weapons being sold in the United States and smuggled to Mexico requires new gun controls. Now the Obama administration is sealing the records.
Meanwhile, these ATF officials and Holder, who told Congress on Thursday the guns would be turning up at crime scenes along the border for years to come, still have jobs instead of jail cells.
Knowing the weapons could not be tracked once they crossed the border, the only possible goal of the ATF was to generate an excuse to violate a right specifically enumerated in the Constitution, the right to keep and bear arms.
Unbelievable.
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That includes 34 of the 50 caliber rifles!!! Last time I fired a 50 caliber was in the US Army. It will be accurate up to 2500 yards!! It takes 3 people in the army to carry a 50 caliber, one carries the gun, one carries the base and one carries all the ammunition it will fire. Also, the 50 caliber sniper rifle does the same. You do NOT be on the recieving end of this fire power !!!,
Jerry, Obozo, our Liar in Chief had said he was working "under the radar" for gun control, then we find Obozo "seemingly" knew about fast and furious BEFORE Holder!! Huh??? TRUE!! That was the object of it, to take our guns away…You cannot enslave an armed populace, so the MUST take our guns…and will in the end!!! Once they get our guns, tens of millions will die in this country…probably Patriots, after all, those who are against socialism or global control are terrorists!! We inline for the lilling fields!!
I'm afraid that before this is all over ,this will make Po-Pot and the killing fields look like a walk in the park. Now let's get real how many gang member's are going to drag around a 50 caliber sniper rifle ,for anyone who know's anything about these gun's ,know's you sure don't use something like that for a drive by shooting,they are big', heavy,and damed exspencive to shoot ,But I heard a news caster not to long ago going on about these gun's how these gun's should be ban because mexican drug gang's are using them.This is the mentilaty of the gun bander's
Ram1…right on!! that 50 cal does a great job at 4 and 5 hundred yards and beyond, but very expensive to shoot, and very loud also!! I designed a round for it that would explode like a 100 – 150 pound bomb…without the shrapnel of course, but just the huge explosion would take out anyone near it…I don't want to give it to the US government, requested permission from Pentagon to give it to Israel…NO Comment..of course!! I also thought about Hungary or the Czeck Republic…yet if I give to any of them…would make me a traitor!! I gave the Pentagon the cluster bomb and thrust vector control on jets! it was never acknowledged!!
Obama wanted to pass new anti-gun legislation all along. He knew it would not pass in this legislature so he had to plan something else to be able to pass anti-gun laws. His "Under the Radar Plan" was Fast and Furious. It is a criminal conspiracy designed to get guns from US gun dealers into drug cartel hands (which is a felony) and for them to commit crimes using those guns. That would cause crime gun statistics to go up for traced weapons and give Obama the excuse HE needed to impliment new anti-gun laws. Liberal Democrtes are working to give cover to Holder and Obama in the Congressional hearings into this criminal activity. They are also co-conspirqtors because they knew before the operqtion went into effect. They voted the tax dollars into the stimulus bill. Holder needs to be charged, impeqched and tried for conspiracy, and accessory to murder. Obama should be next.