The thinking was that, rather than going after crimes considered to be small potatoes, the ATF could focus on bigger fish вЂ“ organizational gun running in the Southwest and over the border in Mexico. The ATF (the same people who entrapped peaceful, law-abiding citizen Randy WeaverВ into selling them a single sawed-off shotgun, then pursued him as if he were mounting an armed insurrection, shooting and killing his wife, son and dog) decided to allow straw purchasesВ (which are technically legal, but often involve the crime of providing false information when purchasing a firearm) to happen in the hopes that these purchases would end up in the hands of Mexican criminal organizations. Project Gunrunner was a project of the ATF, designed to intercept weapons bound for Mexican criminal organizations.

Sit down and get ready to dig into what is perhaps the most egregious scandal of President DroneвЂ™sВ administration вЂ“ and thereвЂ™s a lot to pick from. At least for anyone still under the illusion that the establishment mediaВ is a fair and impartial source of information. Given that the guns run by the ATF were allowed to kill hundreds and that subsequent Congressional investigations resulted in Eric Holder, President ObamaвЂ™s Attorney General, becoming the first sitting cabinet member to be held in criminal contempt of Congress ever, this is shocking. ItвЂ™s one of many scandals of the Obama Administration that was never given as much press attention as, for example, Russia buying Facebook ads about NoFapВ and Pizzagate. Bush, this ATF policy audaciously grew under President Obama and became indicative of the perceived attack on American gun owners by both policy makers and their friends in the establishment media. You probably know what was officially called вЂњ Project GunrunnerвЂќ as вЂњ Operation Fast and Furious.вЂќ Started under George W. (In case youвЂ™re not picking up on it, weвЂ™re laying on the sarcasm very thick right now.) But other than that, it turned out just fine. And some of the guns were used in the November 2015 terrorist attack in Paris at the Bataclan. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry killedВ on December 14, 2010, and let Mexican criminals get enough guns that they were found at over 150 crime scenesВ where Mexican citizens were either killed or maimed. In fact, they had a policy of letting illegal gun purchases go between 20.

Fast and furious