Iowa Republican wants to examine ATF rifle "sting" purchasesU.S. Senator Charles Grassley, R-IA, told newsmen that he has received documents that trace two of the rifles used in an attack on U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry back to an ATF sting operation.
According to a Fox-TV Phoenix report, the Senator said the rifles were purchased in Glendale, Arizona, by ATF agents, then turned up in the attack on Agent Terry in which he lost his life. He and other agents had set up an ambush for bandits who prey on illegal immigrants as they make their way across the Sonoran Desert near Nogales.
Original reports of the Project Gunrunner “Whistleblower Case” first surfaced in columns by David Codrea, a former Guns & Ammo columnist who now writes for the National Examiner.com, and on the Sipsey Street Irreegulars blog maintained and authored by Mike Vanderboegh, the “Dutchman.”
Additional reports have been published on a blog named CleanUpATF.com
They allege that ATF field agents are fed up with their executive leadership at Washington, D.C., and wish to have the Senate investigate the top command structure of the agency before confirming any appointment of a new director. The agency has been rudderless for nearly two years.
Houston attorney Dick DeGuerin told a Houston Fox News outlet recently that his client Bill Carter, proprietor of the 4-store chain of sporting goods stores, Carter Country, is innocent of selling firrearms to straw purchasers because the ATF and FBI condoned the sales, granting permission to sell the firearms to young Hispanic men who paid cash, even though the stores' clerks tipped off ATF agents that the suspects fit the description profiled by federal agencies.
Iowa Republican wants to examine ATF sting purchases of rifles in AZ
U.S. Senator Charles Grassley, R-IA, told newsmen that he has received documents that trace two of the rifles used in an attack on U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry back to an ATF sting operation.
According to a Fox-TV Phoenix report, the Senator said the rifles were purchased in Glendale, Arizona, by ATF agents, then turned up in the attack on Agent Terry in which he lost his life. He and other agents had set up an ambush for bandits who prey on illegal immigrants as they make their way across the Sonoran Desert near Nogales.
Original reports of the Project Gunrunner “Whistleblower Case” first surfaced in columns by David Codrea, a former Guns & Ammo columnist who now writes for the National Examiner.com, and on the Sipsey Street Irreegulars blog maintained and authored by Mike Vanderboegh, the “Dutchman.”
Additional reports have been published on a blog named CleanUpATF.com
They allege that ATF field agents are fed up with their executive leadership at Washington, D.C., and wish to have the Senate investigate the top command structure of the agency before confirming any appointment of a new director. The agency has been rudderless for nearly two years.
Houston attorney Dick DeGuerin told a Houston Fox News outlet recently that his client Bill Carter, proprietor of the 4-store chain of sporting goods stores, Carter Country, is innocent of selling firrearms to straw purchasers because the ATF and FBI condoned the sales, granting permission to sell the firearms to young Hispanic men who paid cash, even though the stores' clerks tipped off ATF agents that the suspects fit the description profiled by federal agencies.
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