The OBAMA-BIDEN-HOLDER ATF, that is.
Caught the assholes knowingly selling firearms to people supplying criminals with gun...causing drama for law-abiding gun owners ,and contributing to the Urban Blood Bath, as well.
Should have been locked away and the key thrown away.
The OBAMA/BIDEN/HOLDER ATF DIDN'T SEE IT THAT WAY.
What a shocker. NOT.
Their guns fueled Chicago crime. When they broke the law, the ATF went easy.
Over the last two decades, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives let some of the Midwest's most notorious gun sellers off the hook for serious violations of federal law, including selling to straw purchasers, transferring guns without background checks and doctoring sales records.
In 2017, on the heels of a record-breaking surge in homicides in Chicago, then-Mayor Rahm Emanuel published a sweeping Gun Trace Report, which identified the sellers of thousands of guns recovered by Chicago police between 2013 and 2016. It showed nearly 1 in 4 guns picked up by city police came from just 10 stores located across Illinois and northern Indiana. The top three stores together accounted for some 2,000 crime guns.
The Trace and USA TODAY requested inspection documents for the gun dealers named in this report. They reveal the ATF routinely issued softer penalties than warranted under agency guidelines when it discovered violations at these stores — in step with a pattern of conciliatory inspections the media organizations first uncovered last year.
That investigation found that between 2015 and 2017, the ATF regularly downgraded penalties for lawbreaking retailers across the U.S. The review of more than 2,000 gun dealers showed that many dealers had brazenly flouted federal laws, selling weapons to convicted felons and domestic abusers, lying to inspectors and falsifying ledgers to hide their misconduct. When the ATF discovered these violations, it often issued warnings, sometimes repeatedly, and allowed stores to stay open.
The new batch of records provides details of inspections conducted as far back as 2009 and suggests the ATF’s lax approach to investigating gun dealers has continued for significantly longer than originally known.
In seven instances related to the stores supplying Chicago with crime guns, the ATF issued softer penalties than violations warranted. In at least three inspections, the agency discovered problems severe enough to warrant revoking a dealer’s license but issued warnings instead.
In a statement, an ATF spokesperson said “supervisors and managers make recommendations based on the totality of the inspection and in accordance with policy to ensure consistent enforcement nationwide. ATF can only revoke for willful violations of the Gun Control Act.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/t...sedgntp&cvid=f7f24ccc384b49e18ebc0004a1470c75
Caught the assholes knowingly selling firearms to people supplying criminals with gun...causing drama for law-abiding gun owners ,and contributing to the Urban Blood Bath, as well.
Should have been locked away and the key thrown away.
The OBAMA/BIDEN/HOLDER ATF DIDN'T SEE IT THAT WAY.
What a shocker. NOT.
Their guns fueled Chicago crime. When they broke the law, the ATF went easy.
Over the last two decades, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives let some of the Midwest's most notorious gun sellers off the hook for serious violations of federal law, including selling to straw purchasers, transferring guns without background checks and doctoring sales records.
In 2017, on the heels of a record-breaking surge in homicides in Chicago, then-Mayor Rahm Emanuel published a sweeping Gun Trace Report, which identified the sellers of thousands of guns recovered by Chicago police between 2013 and 2016. It showed nearly 1 in 4 guns picked up by city police came from just 10 stores located across Illinois and northern Indiana. The top three stores together accounted for some 2,000 crime guns.
The Trace and USA TODAY requested inspection documents for the gun dealers named in this report. They reveal the ATF routinely issued softer penalties than warranted under agency guidelines when it discovered violations at these stores — in step with a pattern of conciliatory inspections the media organizations first uncovered last year.
That investigation found that between 2015 and 2017, the ATF regularly downgraded penalties for lawbreaking retailers across the U.S. The review of more than 2,000 gun dealers showed that many dealers had brazenly flouted federal laws, selling weapons to convicted felons and domestic abusers, lying to inspectors and falsifying ledgers to hide their misconduct. When the ATF discovered these violations, it often issued warnings, sometimes repeatedly, and allowed stores to stay open.
The new batch of records provides details of inspections conducted as far back as 2009 and suggests the ATF’s lax approach to investigating gun dealers has continued for significantly longer than originally known.
In seven instances related to the stores supplying Chicago with crime guns, the ATF issued softer penalties than violations warranted. In at least three inspections, the agency discovered problems severe enough to warrant revoking a dealer’s license but issued warnings instead.
In a statement, an ATF spokesperson said “supervisors and managers make recommendations based on the totality of the inspection and in accordance with policy to ensure consistent enforcement nationwide. ATF can only revoke for willful violations of the Gun Control Act.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/t...sedgntp&cvid=f7f24ccc384b49e18ebc0004a1470c75
