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The
following is a summary and time line of articles appearing on the
Sipsey Street Irregulars blog and Gun Rights Examiner,
reflecting
original reporting on the developing "Project Gunwalker" story by Mike
Vanderboegh and myself. That's the purposely ironic name I assigned it,
a parody of the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco, Firearms and Explosive's
"Project Gunrunner," and it refers to allegations by whistleblowing ATF
insiders that:
* ATF management was allowing potentially hundreds
of semiautomatic
firearms to be walked across the Mexican border in order to pad
statistics used to further budget and power objectives.
* Mexican authorities were kept in the dark, and
protests that they
should be informed were overridden, first by the Phoenix ATF office,
and ultimately by higher-ups in Washington, DC.
* A gun used in this operation was involved in a
December 2010 incident in which a Border Patrol agent was killed.
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The cart before the
horse perhaps, but what brought this to my attention was a NRA press
release, "NRA
issues statement on Grassley ATF inquiry."
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Senator Grassley has demonstrated that he
is determined to uncover the truth regarding BATFE's investigative
tactics, even as BATFE seems intent on shutting down his investigation.
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Grassley is someone I generally consider useless, but here at least he
appears to be doing a journeyman's job of it. ATF keeps appending
letters to its acronym
(When was E get added, and was it really necessary?). Anyway,since the
agency is now at least as dangerous to the common weal as them what it
investigates, perhaps we need a BATFEBATFE to protect us from
them.
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