https://redstate.com/moe_lane/2011/09/26/fast-furious-update-batfe-sold-modified-ak-47s-to-mexican-narco-terrorists/feed/Conservative News & Politicsen-usWed, 10 Jun 2026 01:41:11 -0400<![CDATA[Fox News has the basic story, which goes as follows: an agent of the BATFE was ordered to go and buy six Draco semi-automatic pistols from gun shops.  Those guns were then resold to &#8220;known illegal buyers:&#8221; i.e., people known to resell guns illegally.  So far, this is not actually bad, because this would be how standard sting operations go&#8230; except that they didn&#8217;t arrest the buyers immediately.  Which makes&#8230; sense, right, because Dracos are legal-to-own guns in the USA; so the BATFE would just have to keep a constant watch on the guns to make sure that they didn&#8217;t miss it when the bad guys tried to smuggle the guns out of the country &#8211; no, wait, it&#8217;s reported that ATF group supervisor David Voth ordered that there be no 24 hour surveillance.  Well.  Good thing that Agent John Dodson ignored that order and did a personal stakeout of the bad guys for six days, huh?  Because he was there when they moved out with the guns!  He was able to call in a request for an interdiction team!]]>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 18:00:01 -0400<![CDATA[Moe Lane]]>https://redstate.com/moe_lane/2011/09/26/fast-furious-update-batfe-sold-modified-ak-47s-to-mexican-narco-terrorists-n40544