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In reply to the discussion: The truth about the Fast and Furious scandal [View all]boppers
(16,588 posts)72. The Uniform game?
My experience was with ones bought in the US, then moved into Mexico, stitch-for-stitch perfect copies of legitimate official uniforms, because the supply chains were mostly the same until almost the very end. I remember even getting special batches of thread, custom ordered, to make sure that the embroidered badges looked *just right*.
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the attitude of the U.S. Attorney office in Pheonix seems the heart of the problem . . .
goodhue
Jun 2012
#4
Burke called Grassley's staff "Stooges for the Gun Lobby" for Fast & Furious probe: article
wordpix
Jul 2012
#118
Good find, and thanks for posting. Far too many right wingers and even some here have criticized ATF
Hoyt
Jun 2012
#3
There is some question as to whether the gun that killed the border patrol guard
JDPriestly
Jun 2012
#20
I'm wondering how anyone can claim that the killing was related to the weapons found at
JDPriestly
Jun 2012
#94
It's actually almost irrelevent if that was the specific gun used to kill Terry or not.
PavePusher
Jun 2012
#95
Holder was lied to. That is why he said what he did. That is why, when he learned
JDPriestly
Jul 2012
#96
Holder was not informed of the lie until earlier this year. He could not begin to
JDPriestly
Jul 2012
#99
Sorry, any military officer who was this out of control of her/his unit....
PavePusher
Jul 2012
#100
Was a military officer booted for My Lai, for the torture at Abu Ghraib, for
JDPriestly
Jul 2012
#113
The guns were discovered at the murder scene, but was the bullet that killed
JDPriestly
Jun 2012
#80
So ATF has no one on duty during a holiday? National security issue that no one's minding the store
wordpix
Jul 2012
#119
Yeah a drop in the bucket of 2000 guns a day flooding across the border.
Hassin Bin Sober
Jun 2012
#27
You and I both know it's totally legal for a person to buy a full-auto AK, or RPG, in the US.
boppers
Jun 2012
#34
I never said it wasn't legal.... but it's not the route the traffickers are using....
PavePusher
Jun 2012
#40
So U.S. LE uniforms were being taken to Mexico and used in fake raids there?
PavePusher
Jun 2012
#74
Oh come on, you're not going to trot out that "truth" about the nra BS now are you?
rl6214
Jul 2012
#107
So you trot out a right-wing blogger who thinks Obama really IS plotting to take guns away with F/F?
Hassin Bin Sober
Jul 2012
#109
Just the first google item I found that said Katherine Eban was an anti-gun zealot
rl6214
Jul 2012
#110
aw, give the NRA a break ---they want EVERYONE to own guns, drug cartels included
wordpix
Jul 2012
#120
I was merely responding to assertion that Arizona's laws are not different from other states
goodhue
Jun 2012
#59
Most states do not have these restrictions. What makes Arizona a special case?
PavePusher
Jun 2012
#63
May I see your government issued First, Fourth, Thirteenth and Twenty-sixth Amendment licences...
PavePusher
Jun 2012
#62
agree, but someone should be on duty during a holiday - ATF missed suspicious activity faxed to them
wordpix
Jul 2012
#121
Yes. And some of that information may be about certain ATF agents themselves.
JDPriestly
Jun 2012
#79
If you don't get past the 2nd paragraph, then you're missing out on a lot of pertinent detail
goodhue
Jun 2012
#23
Exporting a firearm without a license to do so is a federal crime. So is providing one to anyone...
slackmaster
Jun 2012
#87
THINK ABOUT IT....THEY ARE ACHIEVING THEIR GOAL THEY ARE DISRUPTING THE ELECTIONS
clang1
Jun 2012
#14
No, I only understand that you are doing the Internet equivalent of shouting...
PavePusher
Jun 2012
#52
Unfortunately, upon seeing her sources, I strongly doubt that the story is either factual or correct
Big_Mike
Jun 2012
#64
If it turns out that the guns weren't walked (whatever that actuall means),
truthisfreedom
Jun 2012
#57