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Of the thousands of guns deliberately sold to illegal buyers under the federal government's disastrous Fast and Furious gun-running fiasco, the 94 guns since recovered have been tied to at least 69 killings.
Of these, 20 were involved in several mass shootings, according to Justice Department documents obtained by Judicial Watch. One turned up in the June 2014 murder of 22 people in Tlatlaya, Mexico. A rifle seized in Hostotipaquillo, Jalisco, has been connected to the assassination of the local police chief and his bodyguard.
Fast and Furious involved the sale of more than 2,500 guns. Federal authorities intended to track the guns sold near the border to Mexican drug cartels — and to presumably make the case for tougher U.S. gun laws. Instead, Fast and Furious blew up in the feds' faces. This, after the death of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, murdered in December 2010 by Mexican thugs carrying Fast and Furious guns.
Yet for five years the Obama administration has tried unsuccessfully to bury this lingering abomination. Recently a federal judge nixed the administration's claim of executive privilege in withholding thousand of documents. And more damaging revelations are expected by Judicial Watch. When a purely political ideology (gun control) transcends common sense, as it so egregiously did with the Fast and Furious debacle, tragedies unfold.
Of the thousands of guns deliberately sold to illegal buyers under the federal government's disastrous Fast and Furious gun-running fiasco, the 94 guns since recovered have been tied to at least 69 killings.
Of these, 20 were involved in several mass shootings, according to Justice Department documents obtained by Judicial Watch. One turned up in the June 2014 murder of 22 people in Tlatlaya, Mexico. A rifle seized in Hostotipaquillo, Jalisco, has been connected to the assassination of the local police chief and his bodyguard.
Fast and Furious involved the sale of more than 2,500 guns. Federal authorities intended to track the guns sold near the border to Mexican drug cartels — and to presumably make the case for tougher U.S. gun laws. Instead, Fast and Furious blew up in the feds' faces. This, after the death of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, murdered in December 2010 by Mexican thugs carrying Fast and Furious guns.
Yet for five years the Obama administration has tried unsuccessfully to bury this lingering abomination. Recently a federal judge nixed the administration's claim of executive privilege in withholding thousand of documents. And more damaging revelations are expected by Judicial Watch. When a purely political ideology (gun control) transcends common sense, as it so egregiously did with the Fast and Furious debacle, tragedies unfold.
