ATF Death Watch 5: Three months before the shooting rampage, campus police asked federal...
It's funny peculiar that gun control advocates focused on spree killer Jared Lee Loughner's extended magazine after he shot Congresswoman Giffords and killed six others. Their fixation is like a drunk looking for his...
ATF Death Watch 6: Trials and Tribulations
My step-daughter recently asked me how she should deal with unflattering gossip at school. I told her to do nothing whatsoever. In two days, her classmates will have moved on to something else. The...
ATF Death Watch 7: Like It Never Happened
How could the Houston Chronicle write about Mexican gun running without once mentioning the ATF's Gunwalker Scandal? Actually, I've got a better question: why would the Houston Chronicle write about the guns smuggled to...
ATF Death Watch 8: GPS?
In a previous post, I asked a simple question: if the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms' (ATF) anti-gun running gun-running ops were truly about busting bad guys, why didn't they equip the weapons with...
ATF Death Watch 9: “The U.S. was the source of at least 70% of...
The Gunwalker scandal biz broke around the time that the ATF claimed---in front of Congress---that 90 percent of the Mexican drug cartels' weapons came from Badger Guns (or similar). Debunkers debunked the stat. That...
ATF Death Watch 10: Men At Work
In the lead-up to Wednesday's Gunwalker hearings, wherein the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (and Really Big Fires) faces the music for its failed attempts to stem U.S. to Mexico gunrunning by...
ATF Death Watch 11: Gun-Grabbing Senators Launch Pre-Emptive Strike on ATF Gunwalker Hearings
HALTING U.S. FIREARMS TAFFIC TO MEXICO. All caps. All bullshit. Including a piss-ant photo of confiscated firearms provided to Senator Feinstein's office by the Mexican Secretariat of Public Security. Click here for the report released...
ATF Death Watch 12: What We Learned from the Congressional Investigation Into Gunwalker Scandal
Nothing. Not a damn thing. Representative Issa asked Department of Justice Assistant Attorney General Ronald Weich which of his DOJ colleagues authorized the abortive ATF program known as Operation Fast & Furious. If you've just joined...
ATF Deathwatch 13: And then, they make a movie about you.
What do Giovanni Ribisi and David Koresh have in common? For that matter, what do Adrien Brody, Kurt Russell, Sharon Stone and the ATF have in common? Well sir, this fall, the indie pic...
ATF Death Watch 14: Mexican Lawyer’s Killers Used ATF-Enabled Guns
"Two guns sold to a Mexican cartel and used in the high-profile kidnapping and murder of a Mexican lawyer last year were purchased under the U.S. Justice Department's failed anti-gun trafficking program Operation Fast...
ATF Death Watch 15 – And Another One Rides the Bus
The Wall St. Journal is reporting this AM that, according to the proverbial "unnamed sources," BAFTE (and sometimes Really Big Fires) acting director Kenneth Melson will be joining the history team sometime within the...
ATF Death Watch 16: Show Us The Guns!
I enjoyed watching Congressman Darrel Issa raking Department of Justice Assistant Attorney General Ron Weich over the coals for his agency's failure to comply with requests for information about the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms...