An article in the Washington Free Beacon discusses the 15 year time-to-crime (TTC) statistic that casts significant doubt on DOJ claims regarding firearms trafficking along the southwest border.
Time-to-crime refers to the period of time between original purchase of a firearm and the recovery of that firearm by law enforcement. The document obtained by the Beacon comes from ATF and was produced as part of the court record in the 2011 case National Shooting Sports Foundation v. Jones – a lawsuit filed by the NSSF and two NRA-funded firearms retailers challenging ATF’s legal authority to impose a multiple sales reporting requirement on 8,700 firearms retailers in Texas, California, New Mexico and Arizona.
A 15 year TTC, which has actually gone up since 2008, when then ATF Deputy Director Billy Hoover disclosed to NSSF that the average TTC for firearms recovered in Mexico was 14 years, demonstrates that these guns were not recently purchased in the United States.
If there’s “a flood of American firearms” headed across the border, as some in DOJ claim, it’s moving at a glacial pace.
What is the TTC for BATFE’s Operation Gunwalker?
Closer to 15 minutes would be my guess.
That would be Fast and Furious, not Gunwalker (Bush era operation that was discontinued because they couldn’t track the guns after they left the US)
”Gunwalker” and “Fast and Furious” are one and the same. Fast and Furious” is the tag ATF put on its attempt to pad their US guns in Mexico statistics in order to justify its program to further restrict our right to keep and bear arms. “Gunwalker” is the name Gun Rights Examiner Columnist, David Codrea, hung on “Fast and Furious” once the ATF’s clandestine practice of letting guns “walk” into Mexico became known.
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Yeah, I forget the name of the very brief and limited program under Bush. When they found out that it was unworkable, they quickly trashed it. In any case, the number of guns was extremely limited.
Wide Receiver.
And in fact in operation Wide Receiver they actually worked with the Mexican authorities to track the guns. But when the Mexican authorities proved inept on their part it was discontinued.