Report: Two more killings traced to missing Fast & Furious guns

[XLTer]

Another weapon lost in the Obama administration's failed Fast and Furious gun-tracking operation has purportedly been traced to two more killings, including the fatal shooting of a police chief in Mexico.

The officer was killed Jan. 29 in the city of Hostotipaquillo when gunmen intercepted his patrol car and opened fire, according to Justice Department records obtained by The Los Angeles Times. The chief’s bodyguard was also killed and a second bodyguard and the chief’s wife were wounded.

Operation Fast and Furious was run out of an Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives field office in Arizona. The plan was to sell guns to buyers and trace them in the black market as the crossed the U.S.-Mexico border, with the expectation they would lead federal officials to drug cartel leaders.

However, hundreds of guns were lost in the operation. And roughly 210 people have either been killed or wounded by them, according to Mexican officials.

In addition, U.S. Border Patrol agent Brian Terry was fatally shot.

His 2010 death sparked several Capitol Hill investigations and a vote by the Republican-controlled House to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress for not turning over records.

The semi-automatic rifle that killed the police chief in central Mexico has been traced to the Lone Wolf Trading Company, a gun store in Glendale, Ariz.

The gun was purchased in February 2010 by 26-year-old Jacob A. Montelongo, of Phoenix, who purportedly bought more than 100 guns connected to Fast and Furious. He is now serving 41 months in prison on charges including making false statements and smuggling goods from the United States. It is unclear how the gun got deep into Mexico

The ATF declined to discuss the issue with the newspaper.


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[davest]

Maybe they should have run a background check on Jacob prior to selling him 100 guns? Nah, that would have infringed on his 2nd amendment rights.

 

[mustangpalmer1911]

Maybe they should have run a background check on Jacob prior to selling him 100 guns? Nah, that would have infringed on his 2nd amendment rights.

"He purchesed the firearm at Lone Wolf Trading Company, a gun store in Glendale, Ariz."

The dealer will then call or fax the Arizona Firearms Clearance Center for an Arizona clearance as well as a federal NICS (National Instant Criminal Background Check System) check. Usually the check itself will take less than a minute and the resultant answer is either a proceed, a delay or a deny. A delay gives the FBI 3 days to clear it up and before which the firearm cannot be sold. After 3 days the sale can take place automatically. A deny means the sale cannot go through and the purchaser can contact the Arizona Firearms Clearance Center to clear up the matter.

soooo ummmmm..... they did and he passed!
He was a straw purchesing, transporting, and selling them under Fast & Furious for the U.S. Government ... scape goat, doctored background, picked for it because of a clean back groud that big brother would not have to worry about? ....who knows.

I have no problem with a back ground checks in 90% of all states you get them when you purchese a firearms I go threw it every purchese in PA.

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

Maybe they should have run a background check on Jacob prior to selling him 100 guns? Nah, that would have infringed on his 2nd amendment rights.

Maybe this adminstaration should not have been in the bussiness of selling guns to drug cartels in Mexico, obama is still refusing to release all records on the "Fast and Furious" gun running operation, again using exective privilage as the reason not to release them. Just what exective privilage is there in an illegal activity by a president.....

 

[mustangpalmer1911]

Maybe this adminstaration should not have been in the bussiness of selling guns to drug cartels in Mexico, obama is still refusing to release all records on the "Fast and Furious" gun running operation, again using exective privilage as the reason not to release them. Just what exective privilage is there in an illegal activity by a president.....

Just like the scumbag in-charge of the IRS, I did nothing wrong or illegal but I am claiming the fifth.... I did not know about fast and furious but I am claiming executive privilege....