re: #368 Dark_Falcon

Untrue. And that goes double since we’ve learned the FBI, on request from the ATF, cleared gun purchases by convicted felons. So the laws didn’t work and the dealers sold the weapons because the ATF wanted the laws to fail and the dealers to sell them. And people got killed. Hell, the ATF didn’t even tell Mexico’s AG till one of his prosecutors was killed by a gun the ATF let get away. No, Killgore, investigating F&F is entirely legitimate.

I’m not sure if you have all the facts correct but the fact that both the ATF and FBI use similar techniques shows that it’s probably a common procedure in these types of investigations. Sometimes they let the crime (drug sales, gun sales, whatever) happen to see where the trail leads. I haven’t been following the story but last I checked it looked to me like the GOP just didn’t like the investigations into the gun trade.