Police chief killed with rifle lost in ATF gun-tracking program

[daveman]

Police chief killed with rifle lost in ATF gun-tracking program

WASHINGTON—A high-powered rifle lost in the ATF’s Fast and Furious controversy was used to kill a Mexican police chief in the state of Jalisco earlier this year, according to internal Department of Justice records, suggesting that weapons from the failed gun-tracking operation have now made it into the hands of violent drug cartels deep inside Mexico.

Luis Lucio Rosales Astorga, the police chief in the city of Hostotipaquillo, was shot to death Jan. 29 when gunmen intercepted his patrol car and opened fire. Also killed was one of his bodyguards. His wife and a second bodyguard were wounded.

Local authorities said eight suspects in their 20s and 30s were arrested after police seized them nearby with a cache of weapons — rifles, grenades, handguns, helmets, bulletproof vests, uniforms and special communications equipment. The area is a hot zone for rival drug gangs, with members of three cartels fighting over turf in the region.

A semi-automatic WASR rifle, the firearm that killed the chief, was traced back to the Lone Wolf Trading Company, a gun store in Glendale, Ariz. The notation on the Department of Justice trace records said the WASR was used in a “HOMICIDE – WILLFUL – KILL –PUB OFF –GUN” –ATF code for “Homicide, Willful Killing of a Public Official, Gun.”

Hundreds of firearms were lost in the Fast and Furious operation. The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives allowed illegal purchasers to buy the firearms at the Lone Wolf store in the Phoenix suburb and other gun shops in hopes of tracing them to Mexican cartel leaders.​

Good job, ATF. Morons.

 

[OriginalShroom]

When will Obama, Holder, and the rest of the people involved in this mess be held accountable?\

Will the press ever stop covering their asses for them?

 

[NYcarbineer]

Since you people want to end all background checks, what's the difference?

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Mexico should charge Holder and Obama as accessories

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[dilloduck]

Since you people want to end all background checks, what's the difference?

You don't understand things very well do you ?

 

[OriginalShroom]

Since you people want to end all background checks, what's the difference?

You don't understand things very well do you ?

He's just another gun grabber that isn't above lying about people he disagrees with.

Pretty typical for the most part.

 

[mudwhistle]

Since you people want to end all background checks, what's the difference?

No, you people claim we want to end all background checks. You're lying.

We need background checks. We just need reasonable standards, not taking away people's rights to gun ownership for any reason the government deems reasonable.......like buying Xanax.

 

[OriginalShroom]

The gun grabbers keep claiming we don't want to "compromise"..

The problem is that they never want us to stop compromising.

If you look at the 2nd Amendment, it uses the phrase "Shall not be infringed". "Shall" is the strongest word used in the legal dictionary. There is no way around it.

Yet we have compromised so many times over the past 237 years that there are an estimated 20,000 laws on the books infringing on the right to keep and bear arms in this Country.

 

[Duped]

Holder will never be held accountable. If he were, he would get a pardon anyway. The left only cares about their sick agenda being promoted - all of the current administration will continue to get a pass!
The 2nd. amendment has been egreigiously infringed.

 

[bodecea]

Guns don't kill people. People kill people.

 

[daveman]

Since you people want to end all background checks, what's the difference?

Or you could just stop being a retard. Your call.

 

[J.E.D]

Then I guess the AZ prosecutors should have arrested the gun runners targeted by Fast & Furious before they left the state/country.

 

[daveman]

Guns don't kill people. People kill people.

But we're constantly told that where there are no guns, there is less violent crime.

So why did Eric Holder make all those guns available to Mexican criminals?

 

[Duped]

Can you imagine if one of us sold assault weapons to a drug cartel, and they killed law enforcment officers with those weapons? We would never get out of prison! Why the disparity; dichotomy? We know who sold the weapons?

 

[bodecea]

Guns don't kill people. People kill people.

But we're constantly told that where there are no guns, there is less violent crime.

So why did Eric Holder make all those guns available to Mexican criminals?

You've not heard that from me. I support the 2nd amendment and own guns myself. This should have no affect on our right to guns.

 

[daveman]

Guns don't kill people. People kill people.

But we're constantly told that where there are no guns, there is less violent crime.

So why did Eric Holder make all those guns available to Mexican criminals?

You've not heard that from me. I support the 2nd amendment and own guns myself. This should have no affect on our right to guns.

Yay you. You got something right for a change.

But don't even make the mistake of thinking that your view is common among the left.