Guns From U.S. Probe Surface in Mexico WSJ

[johnny_22]

"An arsenal found in Mexico included at least five assault rifles that U.S. authorities trace to a federal operation gone badly awry, according to government documents."

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304778304576373932406296842.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

First CBS news and now front page on today's Wall Street Journal. The news is slowly getting out.

[SoCal Bob]

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[Purple K]

There was just a lengthy segment on Fox News about this. 1,800 guns went to Mexico, only 700 recovered.

[Wernher von Browning]

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Use the back door, Luke... Google News lets you get full text of WSJ articles -- if you have some keywords to search for.

Go to Google, click on News, paste the headline into the search bar:

Guns From U.S. Probe Surface in Mexico

and the entire article pops up.

[Peaceful John]

This article was poorly written in that it does not clearly establish a BATF time line. The result is that it leaves the impression that BATF simply had a reasonable and prudent operation go wrong. Clearly, that was not the case.

Secondly, it makes a reference to strawman purchases in the southwestern states being a major source of arms to the cartels. The fact is that it's the unusual gun store that has RPG's, granades, or even fully automatic arms on hand for immediate transfer without all that pesky Federal paperwork. Again, the article leaves the wrong impression.

I would hope that someone higher up the food chain would properly respond to this article via the Letters to the Editor column.

[Wernher von Browning]

And then there's this shocking news story from CBS.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-31727_162-20064443-10391695.html