It’s Official: The ATF Sucks

[Gunreference1]

It’s Official: The ATF Sucks

Posted on November 9, 2010 by Robert Farago

The Office of Inspector General has just released a report on the the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (and really big fires). In specific, they took a gander at the ATF and Sometimes E’s “Project Gunrunner” interdiction program. Click here to download the full report. Here’s the punchline: the ATF doesn’t play nicely with others and hasn’t done jack. Aside from that, I’d like to point out that NO ONE HAS QUANTIFIED THIS PROBLEM . . .

The OIG report simply assumes there’s a booming traffic in guns from the U.S. to Mexico, and that these weapons end up in the hands of murderous criminal cartels. Where’s the evidence for this? If we’re spending all this time, effort, money and manpower trying to stem the “Iron River,” how about a little proof that it’s a torrent, not a trickle?

To read the rest of the story click the link below.

http://thetruthaboutguns.com/2010/11/robert-farago/its-official-the-atf-sucks/

Report - http://thetruthaboutguns.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Project-Gunrunner-Review.pdf

Steve

[Krupski]

It’s Official: The ATF Sucks

From the article: "The OIG report simply assumes there’s a booming traffic in guns from the U.S. to Mexico, and that these weapons end up in the hands of murderous criminal cartels."

All of the Mexican drug cartel weapons seizure photographs I've seen had grenades, full auto rifles, rocket launchers, bricks of explosives, etc...

Maybe New York just sucks, but I've never seen grenades or C4 being offered for sale at any gunshow I've been to. Not even in the parking lot "private sales" area.

Or, is ATF trying to tell us that Mexican drug lords are going to take over the planet with canted FSB WASR-10 semi-autos?