Denying Obama and Hillary shipped weapons to Mexico
That has to be the dumbest of the dumb. Because of the lax gun laws in AZ straw buyers are allowed to purchase as many weapons as they want in cash, and then turn around and sell them. It's completely legal. That's what the ATF agents in the state were watching. The DA would never bring charges against the suspects and the guns were lost.
The failed war on drugs is much more responsible for the deaths than the ATF agents who tried and failed to stop them. All administrations who follow the interdict and incarcerate policy are to blame, including the current administration.
Gun shop owners were forced to comply with democrats idiotic plan. They didn't want to, but were forced to by the democrats.
Fast and Furious: Gun store owner opens up
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.
When Howard heard nothing about any arrests, he questioned the agents. Keep selling, they told him. So hundreds of thousands of dollars more in weapons, including .50-caliber sniper rifles, walked out of the front door of his store in a Glendale, Ariz., strip mall.
He was making a lot of money. But he also feared somebody was going to get hurt.
"Every passing week, I worried about something like that," he said. "I felt horrible and sick."
Late in the night on Dec. 14, in a canyon west of Rio Rico, Ariz., Border Patrol agents came across Mexican bandits preying on illegal immigrants.