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stilicho25
Joined: 05 Apr 2010
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 Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2011 6:13 pm Post subject: ATF letting guns into Mexico |
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This is awfull. I don't believe the official justification that they were going to use this as part of a court case against the cartels. I think they were going to use this as justification to restrict gun ownership.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/03/03/eveningnews/main20039031.shtml |
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NohopeSeriously
Joined: 17 Jan 2011
Location: The Christian Right-Wing Educational Republic of Korea
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Today's the day I learned that the Mexican drug cartels are more powerful than an average American politician.  |
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Kepler
Joined: 24 Sep 2007
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It was a strategy for combating gun trafficking which has been controversial-
"It was an attempt to apply the tactics of a narcotics investigation, in which small-scale drug buyers are allowed to operate under surveillance in the hope of catching their more powerful cartel counterparts.
"But several veteran agents were outraged at the shift, saying that there is a big difference between tracking drugs and tracking guns. They saw the change as a violation of a sacred ATF policy: Make the big case or don't make the big case, but don't let the guns go....."
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-guns-mexico-20110304,0,2309966.story?page=2&track=rss |
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