>From 2006-2011 [federal] agents in Arizona stood down as straw purchasers illegally bought 2,000 guns at shops, intending to use the information to track trafficking patterns and arrest the kingpins. However, agents didn’t deliver the high-level arrests – and in the process, they lost track of hundreds of guns.
>Hundreds of Fast and Furious firearms have previously been traced to other shootings in Mexico. The new leak indicates hundreds more are still being found.
US government sells guns to cartels to prove that guns are being sold to cartels, then sues manufacturers. And people wonder why the country has lost faith in its leaders.
Do you have any evidence for the latter?
Among them is Texan Craig Adlong. He pleaded guilty in 2020 for lying on firearm transaction forms, saying the guns were for his personal use. He purchased 95 semi-automatic rifles at Guns Unlimited in Katy, Texas, making seven visits over two months.
Sixty-six of those firearms were recovered in Mexico, according to the leak.
He got a sentence of 6 months, according to the article.
https://english.elpais.com/international/2024-01-25/alejandr...
>In a separate suit, they have accused five Arizona gun shops – many of which also appear in the hacked data obtained by USA TODAY, of selling guns that crossed the border and were used in crimes.
They're doing both, likely this is the one they expect to win, and they're just playing up the other one for political points. Or hoping when they win the second, people think it was about the first, painting the gun manufacturers in a more negative light.
They also may be going to the hailmary of essentially banning all guns in the U.S through bankrupting them, though this is even more ridiculous than trying to go after a gun company after a mass shooting. This is more like going after Ford because a dealer sold an f150 to someone who sold it to someone else who ran over a pedestrian.
It's hard for the government in this country to regulate guns. But, if you can force the manufacturers to care about this issue by hitting their bottom line, they might start paying more attention to where their products end up. They have both the ability and the money to affect the sellers.
Think of it as solving the problem via the marketplace, rather than government intervention.