ATF really likes guns in the hands of criminals...now lawful US citizens...

A few months ago I posted from a STRAFER.COM report on the propaganda on 90% of all weapons in Mexico are from the United States...” Well not to be outdone the ATF (you know, the guys who wanted to show off in front of the cameras in raiding the Branch Davidians and ended up with a siege of a compound of oddballs) is at it again.

Lawmakers press feds for documents on cartel gun sales
Information sought in deaths of U.S. agents

WASHINGTON — House and Senate lawmakers are threatening to block presidential nominees and subpoena Justice Department officials this week to force the release of documents on a controversial gun trafficking program that allowed American shipments of weapons to Mexican cartels.

Congressional investigators claim U.S. officials allowed American gun stores to sell weapons in bulk to Mexican buyers in order to track the shipments and identify the ringleaders, known as "Operation Fast and Furious" under "Project Gunrunner."
Weapons from those sales were found at the scene of two separate attacks on U.S. agents, and Congress wants to know if they were used specifically in the deaths of Immigration and Customs Enforcement special agent Jaime Zapata or Customs and Border Patrol agent Brian Terry.

Cover-up alleged

Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, claims the Justice Department and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is conducting a cover-up in its refusal to hand over documents and witnesses to congressional investigators.

Grassley, the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said he will block President Barack Obama's nominees from confirmation until he gets the documents he needs for his panel's investigation.

In the House, Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., will hold the first of several hearings today into the failure of the Justice Department and the ATF to cooperate with the congressional probes. Issa is threatening to issue subpoenas to retrieve documents and to gain access to witnesses.

Bipartisan support

The efforts by Grassley and Issa have won bipartisan support from Texas lawmakers frustrated with the lack of information about the death of Zapata coming from the administration.
"The Justice Department engaged in an unauthorized activity which actually ended up putting guns in the hands of dangerous drug cartels in Mexico," said Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas. "Unfortunately, they seemed to be engaged now in a cover-up and refuse to be forthcoming with regards to Senator Grassley's reasonable request for documents and information....

OK...the guys who say we have too many guns in the hands of criminals (actually they say they only in the hands of the American people) decide “Let’s put more weapons in the hands of turds out there....and these are the geniuses out there! And I for one am glad the Republicans are finally saying to B Hussein Obama and his leftists we’re stopping your nominations until we get answers.