Is there a cover-up on Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry’s murder?

[beevul]

Source: Tucson citizen

Is there a cover-up on Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry’s murder?

by Hugh Holub on Feb. 04, 2011, under border issues, drug smuggling, politics

Recent news stories about guns in Arizona suggest that Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry may have been shot by a gun that was purchased at a Glendale gun shop, and smuggled into Mexico while the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives (generally known as the ATF) watched.

In Grassley’s January 27th letter he says “Members of the Judiciary Committee have received numerous allegations that the ATF sanctioned the sale of hundreds of assault weapons to suspected straw purchasers, who then alleged transported these weapons throughout the southwestern border area and then into Mexico.”

While federal officials have no released any information about what kind of weapon was used to kill agent Terry, there is a sick feeling that Terry may have been killed with one of the Glendale guns.

Sources I have indicate that the feds knew about the Glendale weapons within 48 hours of Terry’s shooting.



Read more: http://tucsoncitizen.com/view-from-baja-arizona/2011/02/04/is-there-a-cover-up-on-border-patrol-agent-brian-terry%E2%80%99s-murder/

[emilyg]

1. I just read this yesterday

on another site. Wish I could remember where. Thanks.

[sharesunited]

2. Here is the problem with the ATF. They love guns and ammo.

Seriously, think about it. If you want to be around guns and bullets, a career with the ATF seems like a logical choice.

Well how about recruiting among those who condemn and denounce any love for firearms weaponry?

If you are not transforming LEO love for guns and ammo into a revulsion for same, then you are letting us down.

[TheWraith]

4. Except that the ATF is notoriously vicious towards gun dealers and owners.

They have a long history of ruthlessly prosecuting people who fall afoul of their regulatory decisions, such as the claim that a piece of shoelace constitutes a machine gun.

[sharesunited]

5. It's not the shoe lace though, is it? Be honest with yourself for once.

It's the gun to which the shoelace is attached, isn't it?

You can play cat and mouse with this truth.

But you will get eaten, mouse.

[TheWraith]

6. No: according to the ATF, the component is the machine gun, meaning the shoelace.

You might want to know something about the ATF before you go declaring yourself an expert on them. According to the ATF, any fire control component from anything it considers a "machine gun" is, in and of itself, ALSO a machine gun. Including the string. So under that ruling, you could have gotten 10 years for possessing such a piece of shoelace, if the ATF decided to prosecute. This is one example of their many poor regulatory decisions.

For instance, another case: a man took his rifle to a range, and was taking target practice. While doing so, the rifle "slam fired," a kind of malfunction that causes the rifle to repeatedly go off on it's own, after a single trigger pull. It was obviously a malfunction--neither the police nor the ATF could reproduce the multiple firing. Nevertheless, the ATF decided that he had illegally modified the rifle--even though they couldn't say how, or find any modifications--and they prosecuted him for unregistered possession of a machine gun.

[boppers]

3. Ah, the Citizen.

"Yesterday's news, tomorrow".