Hidden in plain sight, in a bill that no one read, was $10,000,000 for an ATF project called “Gunrunner.” Domandred at Free Republic found this:
I scanned the text of H.R.1 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 for gun, firearm, etc and came up with a hit.
I posted in the thread: “Only time “gun” or “firearm” appears is in the part that give $10,000,000 to the ATF for Project Gunrunner. That was H.R. 495, asking for 15,000,000 for Gunrunner”.
H.R. 495 that I mentioned never made it out of committee, but it looks as it was to specifically fund Gunrunner.
Instead portions of it were rolled into the stimulus package a month later. That text found in H.R.1 is:
For an additional amount for ‘State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance’, $40,000,000, for competitive grants to provide assistance and equipment to local law enforcement along the Southern border and in High-Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas to combat criminal narcotics activity stemming from the Southern border, of which $10,000,000 shall be transferred to ‘Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Salaries and Expenses’ for the ATF Project Gunrunner.
Notice that’s $40,000,000 for Southern border enforcement, $10,000,000 of which specifically for Project Gunrunner. What does $10 million pay for here?
Attorney General Eric Holder said he wouldn’t authorize it, but someone in Congress knew enough about it to earmark ten million bones for it. And Obama signed the bill and gave it to them.
Does that mean everyone who voted for or signed the Stimulus Bill should be indicted as accessories to all these crimes, including the deaths of Border Patrol agent Brian Terry and ICE agent Jaime Zapata?
And I ask again, what was the ultimate goal of this operation that allowed thousands of guns to “walk” across the border into the hands of extremely violent drug cartels?
Hat Tip: Weasel Zippers and The PJ Tatler
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Will the next (D) jobs bill also have money to smuggle guns to Mexican Narco-terrorists to justify gun-control legislation in USA or will it be an amendment to the next DREAM act?
Will the next (D) jobs bill also have money to smuggle guns to Mexican Narco-terrorists to justify gun-control legislation in USA or will it be an amendment to the DREAM Act?
Shovel ready indeed.
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The stimulus bill has an item for Gunrunner, which is a different program and apparently a long-term legitimate program. Different from Gunwalker.
Obama’s Shovel Ready, who would thought he meant digging the graves of some of our ATF Agents
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