Gun Policy News
US-Mexico Gun Running Scandal: 'A Drug-War Plan Goes Awry'
20 June 2011
Wall Street Journal, Opinion
One of the frightening things about the U.S. government's war on drugs is that it is being waged by federal bureaucracies. The legend of Elliot Ness notwithstanding, this implies that it is not only fraught with ineptitude but that before it is all over, there are going to be a lot of avoidable deaths.
Witness "Operation Fast and Furious," a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms plan that allegedly facilitated the flow of high-powered weapons into Mexico in the hope... (GunPolicy.org)