Posted on 09/12/2011 5:24:27 AM PDT by marktwain
When federal agents with Operation Fast and Furious told Andre Howard to sell weapons to illegal purchasers, he complied, but he feared someone would get hurt. Then a border agent was shot.
Reporting from Glendale and Rio Rico, Ariz.— In the fall of 2009, ATF agents installed a secret phone line and hidden cameras in a ceiling panel and wall at Andre Howard's Lone Wolf gun store. They gave him one basic instruction: Sell guns to every illegal purchaser who walks through the door.
For 15 months, Howard did as he was told. To customers with phony IDs or wads of cash he normally would have turned away, he sold pistols, rifles and semiautomatics. He was assured by the ATF that they would follow the guns, and that the surveillance would lead the agents to the violent Mexican drug cartels on the Southwest border.
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Were not the Post reporters smearing Lone Wolf?
Gunwalker ping.
If I were this gun shop owner, I would have shut down my store before complying with this BS. One shouldn’t break the law(especially laws that could get people killed when broken) or do something immoral just because it’s their government telling them to do it!
thx
What are the odds that you would then be arrested on some trumped up charged and imprisoned along with members of your family as alleged accomplices?
So Big Sis' goons didn't *ask* this guy for his cooperation, they *told* him what he was going to do. How...what's the word? Fascist...
If this doesn’t force the resignation of Holder I’ll be amazed. Total incompetence or negligence. God, this makes me angry.
“If this doesn’t force the resignation of Holder I’ll be amazed. “
Someone other than Holder will get the shaft....Holder is Obama’s stooge. Holder already is the teflon Don.
I hope he got that in writing!
If nothing else, the owner should've been doing some wire-tapping or video recording of his own...of the ATF.
Mr. Howard should have respectfully declined the ATF’s request and suggest they find another patsy.
If it is as bad as your question suggests, why are we still talking and not shooting these bastards?
Just say no!
Good question, but if you have been running a gun store for any length of time, and the Feds go back through your records with sandpaper, you are very exposed to anything they want to do.
Go back and review WATERGATE. The pawns (Holder on down) are trying to keep America from knowing it was O B A M A himself that ordered this stupidity.
Didn't you listen to any of his speeches? Only a COMMUNITY ORGANIZER turned POTUS could be stupid enough to try this.
Go back and review WATERGATE. The pawns (Holder on down) are trying to keep America from knowing it was O B A M A himself that ordered this stupidity.
Didn't you listen to any of his speeches? Only a COMMUNITY ORGANIZER turned POTUS could be stupid enough to try this.
Just think of all the e-mail traffic that went back and forth between the dealers and ATF, unencrypted. You know what they say, "Once it's out there, it's out there forever". And this was an international operation.
That tells you all you need to know about the level of competence and seriousness of these hacks.
Minumum, it should have been encrypted Secret, if not Top Secret.
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