Well....while I agree with you that this alone wouldn't get a conviction in a court of law, where there is smoke - there is fire. It's almost certain this was a "Fast & Furious" gun based on what they've found so far. Why else would ATF leadership insist on making sure that this man who committing a serious felony was not arrested and not "angered"? The ATF doesn't do that.It said a little more than that....All the article says is that the gun came from Phoenix.
The investigative follow up of the Paris weapon consisted of tracking a paper trail using a 4473 form, which documents a gun’s ownership history by, among other things, using serial numbers. The Phoenix gun owner that the weapon was traced back to was found to have at least two federal firearms violations—for selling one weapon illegally and possessing an unregistered automatic—but no enforcement or prosecutorial action was taken against the individual. Instead, ATF leaders went out of their way to keep the information under the radar and ensure that the gun owner’s identity was “kept quiet,” according to law enforcement sources involved with the case. “Agents were told, in the process of taking the fully auto, not to anger the seller to prevent him from going public,” a veteran law enforcement official told Judicial Watch.
To make the jump from that statement to "it was a Fast and Furious gun" shows dishonesty on the part of The Gateway Pundit.