Assailant In 2010 Garland, Texas Attack - Got Gun Thanks To Obama - Granite Grok

Assailant In 2010 Garland, Texas Attack – Got Gun Thanks To Obama

The LA Times is reporting that a gun in the possession of one of the “terrorists” who went to shoot up Pamela Geller’s Draw Mohammad confab in Garland, Texas, was allowed to purchase the firearm as part of the Obama Administrations Fast and Furious Operation.

Five years before he was shot to death in the failed terrorist attack in Garland, Texas, Nadir Soofi walked into a suburban Phoenix gun shop to buy a 9-millimeter pistol. 

At the time, Lone Wolf Trading Co. was known among gun smugglers for selling illegal firearms. And with Soofi’s history of misdemeanor drug and assault charges, there was a chance his purchase might raise red flags in the federal screening process.

Inside the store, he fudged some facts on the form required of would-be gun buyers.

What Soofi could not have known was that Lone Wolf was at the center of a federal sting operation known as Fast and Furious, targeting Mexican drug lords and traffickers. The idea of the secret program was to allow Lone Wolf to sell illegal weapons to criminals and straw purchasers, and track the guns back to large smuggling networks and drug cartels.

Instead, federal agents lost track of the weapons and the operation became a fiasco, particularly after several of the missing guns were linked to shootings in Mexico and the 2010 killing of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry in Arizona.

Soofi’s attempt to buy a gun caught the attention of authorities, who slapped a seven-day hold on the transaction, according to his Feb. 24, 2010, firearms transaction record, which was reviewed by the Los Angeles Times. Then, for reasons that remain unclear, the hold was lifted after 24 hours, and Soofi got the 9-millimeter.

Patterico’s Pontifications

I guess that makes Holder and the Obama Administration complicit in the illegal use, and by extension, every Democrat who defended him and the program.

 

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