John Dodson’s The Unarmed Truth is a hell of a book. For one thing, it’s the book that ATF Director B. Todd Jones pulled out all the stops to get pulped prior to publication. That fact alone, that a censorious bureaucrat tried to ban the book, should make you want to read it.
Soon 1,515 guns from Lone Wolf — almost all of them ATF-walked examples — turned up at crime scenes. Lone Wolf, the Post writers type for the ATF, was only 8th on number of crime guns traced; if the other 7 also let just 1500 guns each walk, the total gun count is at least 12,000. How many of those guns were actually walked by the ATF is uncertain, but #8 crime-trace-gun vendor Lone Wolf and #3 J&G Sales both were only selling to cartels’ straw buyers under ATF direction.
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And yet, even today, it's no big deal....the corruption in our government is so rampant that it's ho hum normal.
The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms. James Madison
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Let a Citizen try that with just 1 handgun for a family member and see what happens. He will be nailed quickly for a "Straw Purchase" violation and charged. This was from an earlier post on this forum.
rbwhatever1 wrote:Let a Citizen try that with just 1 handgun for a family member and see what happens. He will be nailed quickly for a "Straw Purchase" violation and charged. This was from an earlier post on this forum.
Have you heard their latest? They put a mentally challenged man with a criminal record in an ATF pawnshop sting in Florida. In Florida to legally operate a pawnshop all employees must have background checks and clean records. Then they got a guy to sell the pawnshop a gun he had bought at a gunshop and charged him with selling a gun to a felon.
rbwhatever1 wrote:Let a Citizen try that with just 1 handgun for a family member and see what happens. He will be nailed quickly for a "Straw Purchase" violation and charged. This was from an earlier post on this forum.
Have you heard their latest? They put a mentally challenged man with a criminal record in an ATF pawnshop sting in Florida. In Florida to legally operate a pawnshop all employees must have background checks and clean records. Then they got a guy to sell the pawnshop a gun he had bought at a gunshop and charged him with selling a gun to a felon.
How does that work? I figured the guy would not be selling to the individual in that case, but to the FFL. I wouldn't think the flunky at the counter would be the one actually buying the firearm.