The massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary has placed gun violence squarely at the front of the national agenda. But conspicuously absent is much of anything that might address the stunning and widespread weaknesses that have for years crippled the federal agency responsible for enforcing the nation’s gun laws — the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.... Read more»
In the wake of last week’s shooting in Aurora, Colo., we’ve taken a step back and laid out the best pieces we could find about guns. They’re roughly organized by articles on rights, trafficking and regulation.... Read more»
News from and about the borderlands: Voter concerns and polls, law enforcement updates, rising illegal immigration may indicate economic recovery and news from across the border.... Read more»
A new report by Spanish-language network Univision has found links between murders in Mexico and guns involved in the government’s “Fast and Furious” operation.... Read more»
Members of a House committee called for more accountability from Justice Department officials Thursday, even as they praised an internal investigation of two botched “gun-walking” operations: operations Fast and Furious and Wide Receiver.... Read more»
Border & immigration news: Sheriff Dever dies, Border Patrol names Naco station after Terry, Fast and Furious report released, and more.... Read more»
Government officials in Phoenix and Washington, D.C., mishandled two “gun-walking” operations in Arizona and put the public in serious risk in the process, according to an inspector general’s report released Wednesday.... Read more»
Liberals, we need to have a heart to heart about gun politics: There will be no new gun control laws. Gun manufacturers, through the NRA and other trade groups, have a complete lock on our federal government.... Read more»10
The full U.S. Senate on Friday confirmed former Pima County Superior Court Judge John S. Leonardo to be the next U.S. Attorney for Arizona. Leonardo will fill the federal prosecutor’s job held by former U.S. Attorney Dennis Burke, who resigned in August during the investigation of Operation Fast and Furious.... Read more»
Matt Heinz, a state representative running against U.S. Rep. Ron Barber in the CD2 Democratic primary, said the new congressman’s vote to hold U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder in civil contempt “in no way helps Arizona with its border security issues.”... Read more»1
Arizona lawmakers split along party lines Thursday as the House voted to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt in its probe of Operation Fast and Furious, the government’s botched “gun-walking” investigation in Phoenix.... Read more»1
On Fast and Furious, did Did Darrell Issa just make up the whole thing? Bombshell reporting in Fortune Magazine and the Washington Post sheds new light on the festering, wormy mess that is his probe of an ATF gun-smuggling investigation.... Read more»6
GOP members of the U.S. House, joined by a few Democrats, voted 255-67 on Thursday to hold AG Holder in criminal contempt of Congress in the investigation into Fast and Furious. Many Democrats walked out during the vote, including U.S. Rep. Raúl Grijalva. Ron Barber voted against it.... Read more»5
A run-down of the politics behind U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa’s investigation of the “Fast and Furious” bait-gun program.... Read more»1
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said his office has released thousands of documents in the Fast and Furious investigation, and that the others that Issa wants are internal communications protected by executive privilege. What is executive privilege?... Read more»
A House committee voted Wednesday to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress in the investigation into Operation Fast and Furious, the botched “gun-walking” operation by federal agents in Arizona.... Read more»1
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