Gunrunner Runs Amok

[Flench]

Dallas Morning News, 04 Mar 2011 - Program Let Arms Go South, With Deadly Results Disturbing recent news reports suggest that federal agents knowingly let arms buyers for Mexican drug cartels smuggle high-powered weaponry across the border, with deadly consequences for U.S. law enforcers. Mexican leaders have warned for years that lax U.S. enforcement of gun smuggling was fueling border-area violence, but they should be particularly disturbed to learn that, in some cases, weapons were being deliberately allowed to flow southward.
LINK:
http://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/editorials/20110303-editorial-federal-gun-smuggling-surveillance-program-backfires-.ece

[SmokinLoon]

Dallas Morning News, 04 Mar 2011 - Program Let Arms Go South, With Deadly Results Disturbing recent news reports suggest that federal agents knowingly let arms buyers for Mexican drug cartels smuggle high-powered weaponry across the border, with deadly consequences for U.S. law enforcers. Mexican leaders have warned for years that lax U.S. enforcement of gun smuggling was fueling border-area violence, but they should be particularly disturbed to learn that, in some cases, weapons were being deliberately allowed to flow southward.
LINK:
http://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/editorials/20110303-editorial-federal-gun-smuggling-surveillance-program-backfires-.ece

"high powered weaponry"... who the F is a reported to make that call???  Rifles and ammo are not high powered weaponry.  They are small arms.  Cannons, rockets, and RPG's are high powered weaponry.

More BS that Mehehko's problem is the fault of its northern neighbor.      

[curry1]

They obviously meant high powered-rifles.

[MarineUS]

that one person who commented had it right lol

"We're from the government, and we're here to help."
 

[Maverick]

There is a lot of hyperbole about this subject and some rather inflated claims about the sources of some of the weapons they say came from the US. Quite a few did come from the US,through the mexican government who did not hang onto them. Some went away when the soldiers defected to the cartels. Some went away when the cartels raided government armories and Police Stations. Some went across the border illegally as well but by far not the majority of them. In this case one of the guns that went across the border with the permission of ATF was involved in the shootout that resulted in the death of Border Patrol Agent Terry.