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Another Fast and Furious Gun Appears.

Operation Fast and Furious is the gift that keeps on giving the ATF a headache.

A dramatic shootout between authorities and suspected cartel gunmen at a Mexican seaside resort this month has ties to a botched U.S. gun operation.

A U.S. official said Tuesday that investigators have traced at least one firearm recovered at a December 18 gunfight in Puerto Peñasco, just across from the Arizona border, to Operation Fast and Furious.

How dramatic was this shootout, CNN?

The shootout in Puerto Peñasco, also called Rocky Point by Arizona tourists, two weeks ago left at least five suspected cartel gunmen dead, including possibly a high level Sinaloa cartel chief, according to Mexican authorities.

Witnesses reported hours of shooting and grenade explosions, with Mexican authorities using helicopters to attack fleeing suspected cartel gunmen on the ground.

Source: http://www.humanevents.com/2013/12/31/another-fast-and-furious-gun-turns-up-at-a-mexican-shootout/

But don’t worry, our ATF has a very sophisticated tracking system, every time someone gets shot with one of their guns, they know where to find it, and since 1,400 guns are still missing, I guess 1,400 more Mexicans need to get shot.

Here’s an idea, ATF, next time focus on fighting real crimes instead of creating them. Forcing gun dealers to sell to Mexican gangsters they didn’t want to sell to in the first place is not the kind of government we deserve.

Fast & Furious compared to South Park.

In this exclusive excerpt from his new book, “The Unarmed Truth,” Dodson explains how tragically inept Fast and Furious was.

‘It’s like the underwear gnomes,” my ATF colleague Lee Casa told me one time as we recounted the latest bizarre goings-on in Phoenix.

“What?” I asked.

“You ever watch ‘South Park’? There’s this episode where all the boys get their underwear stolen by these underwear gnomes. They track them down to get it back and one of them asks why they are stealing everyone’s underwear. The gnomes break out this PowerPoint and reveal their master plan: Phase One: Collect underpants . . . Phase Two: ? . . . Phase Three: Profit.”

“We’re doing the same thing,” he explained. “We know Phase One is ‘Walk guns’ and Phase Three is ‘Take down a big cartel!’ ”

Both of us were laughing now; a more fitting and appropriate allegory could never be found. Casa concluded, “Just nobody can figure out what the f–k Phase Two is!”

Source: http://nypost.com/2013/12/01/book-excerpt-how-america-gave-guns-to-mexican-drug-cartels/

 

Government is something else, isn’t it? Always in a hurry to regulate, prohibit, harass, but never a minute to think about the unintended consequences.