By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Under the category of “bad luck for criminals” comes this story from Chicago. The Chicago Sun-Times reports that a bandit put a gun to the head of an undercover ATF agent last Thursday and tried to rob him while the agent was trying to make a heroin purchase. The paper reports…
By JOSH GERSTEIN Politico WASHINGTON — A senior federal prosecutor in Arizona intends to invoke his Fifth Amendment rights rather than testify before a House committee next week looking into the Justice Department’s handling of the Fast and Furious gunrunning investigation, the prosecutor’s attorney told Congress in a letter on Thursday. On Wednesday, House Government…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It may be a new year, but the controversy surrounding ATF’s Operation Fast and Furious isn’t going away any time soon. The latest: Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), head of House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, announced Thursday that a subpoena has been issued for Patrick J. Cunningham, Chief of the Criminal…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com A fire at a suburban Chicago home may have been used to hide the murder of four people in the house, ATF agents have told the Associated Press. A woman and three young relatives were found dead by gunshot in the home, presumably shot before the blaze began, according to the…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Houston ATF agents hit a small jackpot recently when they raided the home used by a Mexican cartel member. The local KPRC-TV reports that agents seized dozens of guns and 45 pounds of marijuana. Agents were lead to the home by Juan Garcia, who had been arrested after purchasing high-powered rifles…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Seven Atlanta men, who were busted in a major crackdown on guns and drugs, have been sentenced, ATF announced Tuesday. Sentences ranged from 12 months to 151 months. The men were among 49 defendants indicted in Atlanta, the result of an undercover ATF investigation that was known as “ATL Blaze.” Undercover…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com In the back-and-forth, knock down drag out battle over gun rights, no victory goes unchallenged. It is perhaps no surprise, then, that the US gun industry, according to the Chicago Tribune, appealed on Monday US Judge Rosemary Collyer’s recent decision upholding a new requirement by the ATF that gun dealers in…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com ATF hasn’t had it easy these day. But at least it can count on one small victory. On Friday, a US Judge in Washington upheld new, controversial federal rules requiring four border-states to report sales of multiple semi-automatic rifles, reports Reuters. The gun industry had challenged the new rules on privacy…
