<p><span style="color: #888888; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; line-height: 24px;"><span class="meta-prep meta-prep-author" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: middle; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">Posted on</span> <a href="http://www.nationalgunrights.org/agency-gone-wild/" title="6:26 pm" rel="bookmark" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: middle; color: #888888; text-decoration: underline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span class="entry-date" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: middle; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">June 23, 2011</span></a> <span class="meta-sep" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: middle; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">by</span> <span class="author vcard" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: middle; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><a class="url fn n" href="http://www.nationalgunrights.org/author/nagr-staff/" title="View all posts by NAGR Staff" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: middle; color: #888888; text-decoration: underline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">NAGR Staff</a></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">
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<p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: middle; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">Attorney General Eric Holder and his anti-gun cronies at the Justice Department are starting to realize they may be in some hot water.</p>
<p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: middle; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">But, as was to be expected, they are going to throw someone else under the bus and hope it all goes away…</p>
<p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: middle; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">After a revealing week of hearings on the horribly corrupt “Project Fast &amp; Furious” – the BATFE’s attempt to create crime in order to make themselves relevant – <strong style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: middle; font-weight: bold; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">the head of the ATF, Kenneth Melson, is getting ready to take the fall by resigning.</strong></p>
<p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: middle; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">I guess Eric Holder still refuses to take any responsibility and is placing all the blame on his subordinates.</p>
<p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: middle; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">As you now well know, courageous agents within the ATF have been testifying before Congress that <strong style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: middle; font-weight: bold; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">senior leadership at both the ATF and the Justice Department forced gun shops to sell firearms to known smugglers who sold the guns to drug cartels in Mexico.</strong><strong style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: middle; font-weight: bold; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><br /></strong><br />This disastrous plan resulted in multiple federal agents being shot and killed with weapons that were allowed to “walk” into Mexico.</p>
<p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: middle; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">And this happened even after agents working on the case warned their superiors that it would happen.</p>
<p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: middle; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">The response from ATF/Justice Department leadership?</p>
<p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: middle; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><strong style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: middle; font-weight: bold; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">That a few “eggs” have to be scrambled to make an omelette.</strong></p>
<p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: middle; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">Now, in light of all this controversy, the acting director of the ATF is trying to take the fall by resigning.</p>
<p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: middle; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><strong style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: middle; font-weight: bold; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">But this is where it gets really shady.</strong></p>
<p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: middle; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">Guess who his replacement is supposed to be?</p>
<p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: middle; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">A man I’ve been keeping my eye on for a while – Andrew Traver.</p>
<p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: middle; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">You see, Andrew Traver has been an enemy of gun owners for quite some time.</p>
<p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: middle; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><strong style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: middle; font-weight: bold; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">As head of the Chicago division of the ATF he has advocated nearly every gun ban you can think of.</strong></p>
<p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: middle; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">And even some you haven’t.</p>
<p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: middle; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><strong style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: middle; font-weight: bold; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">To give you an idea, he’s been Obama’s number one choice to head the agency since last year.</strong><strong style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: middle; font-weight: bold; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><br /></strong><br />The simple fact is…</p>
<p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: middle; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">…he’s worse than the guy he’s replacing.</p>
<p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: middle; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">And what’s more is that, because he’s been the one Eric Holder wanted for quite some time to step in as the director, <strong style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: middle; font-weight: bold; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">it is inconceivable that he was not briefed at some point on Project Fast &amp; Furious.</strong></p>
<p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: middle; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">They’ve been talking about Traver taking the helm of the BATFE for at least 6 months (that I know of).</p>
<p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: middle; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><strong style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: middle; font-weight: bold; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">Do you think that a guy being groomed for that position wouldn’t be briefed on the agency’s biggest operation?</strong></p>
<p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: middle; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">I think you know where this is going…</p>
<p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: middle; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">While it is certainly clear that ATF leadership needs cleaning out, to replace the current director with one who is admittedly anti-gun and clearly involved in what his boss is already in trouble over…</p>
<p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: middle; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">Well, that’s unacceptable in my book.</p>
<p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: middle; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">I called my Congressman and told him that <strong style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: middle; font-weight: bold; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">replacing one leader who has no respect for my rights with another one doesn’t “fix” the problem.</strong></p>
<p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: middle; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><strong style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: middle; font-weight: bold; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">It’s an attempt to pacify the public.</strong></p>
<p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: middle; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">They know it, but they’re hoping you don’t.</p>
<p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: middle; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">Give them a call and tell them you know what the Justice Department is trying to do and you’re not falling for it.</p>
<p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: middle; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><strong style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: middle; font-weight: bold; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">Call your Congressman at (202) 224- 3121 and tell them that the ATF needs a serious overhauling and that the Attorney General needs to be held responsible for this flagrant abuse of the law.</strong></p>
<p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: middle; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">Make sure they know that your Second Amendment rights are more important than funding some rogue Agency Gone Wild.</p>
<p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: middle; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">I know I’m going to call everyone I know in politics and make sure this doesn’t go unnoticed.</p>
<p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: middle; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">Do the same for me.</p>
<p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: middle; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">For Freedom,</p>
<p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: middle; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">Dudley Brown<br />Executive Director</p>
<p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: middle; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><strong style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: middle; font-weight: bold; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">P.S. After you’ve called your Congressman and told them to hold Eric Holder’s anti-gun Justice Department accountable, <a href="http://paracom.paramountcommunication.com/ct/6194306:9118138221:m:1:237075427:959FD43E2BB02268F153EBA2135DF711" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: middle; color: #003399; text-decoration: underline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">click on this link to send a few bucks to the National Association for Gun Rights.</a></strong><strong style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: middle; font-weight: bold; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"></strong></p>
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<p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: middle; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><strong style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: middle; font-weight: bold; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><strong style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: middle; font-weight: bold; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">I have to keep this place growing to fight these gun-grabbers who think we aren’t looking. I have to let them know that yes, we are. And we won’t stand for this kind of behavior.</strong></strong></p>
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