ATF Resorts to Dubious Tactics to Secure Arrests
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Raven Clabough
New American
December 10, 2013
New American
December 10, 2013
An exposé by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports
that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (still
known as ATF) engaged in rogue tactics to go after guns on the street,
including exploiting the mentally ill, purchasing weapons at extremely
high costs, and allowing minors to smoke marijuana and drink.
The exposé follows one that the Journal Sentinel ran earlier
this year that focused on the Milwaukee arm of the ATF. According to
that article, the undercover ATF agents opened a storefront sting
operation that was said to have focused on breaking up criminal
operations in Milwaukee by purchasing illegal guns and drugs from
felons.