Federal agents hunt for guns, one house at a time

[jaqeboy]

Federal agents hunt for guns, one house at a time
By DANE SCHILLER Copyright 2009 Houston Chronicle
June 30, 2009, 9:36PM

In front of a run-down shack in north Houston, federal agents step from a government sedan into 102-degree heat and face a critical question: How can the woman living here buy four high-end handguns in one day?

The house is worth $35,000. A screen dangles by a wall-unit air conditioner. Porch swing slats are smashed, the smattering of grass is flattened by cars and burned yellow by sun.

"I'll do the talking on this one," agent Tim Sloan, of South Carolina, told partner Brian Tumiel, of New York.

Success on the front lines of a government blitz on gunrunners supplying Mexican drug cartels with Houston weaponry hinges on logging heavy miles and knocking on countless doors. Dozens of agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives — sent here from around the country — are needed to follow what ATF acting director Kenneth Melson described as a "massive number of investigative leads."
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[John Edward Mercier]

The US has been pissy ever since the Zeta teams turned their backs on them.

[KBCraig]

In this case, ATF isn't "searching" anything except what they're given permission to search by the sheeple who don't know any better.

It's sad that in our society, "cooperating with the police" is seen as a moral virtue.

[Ogre]

QFT:

It's sad that in our society, "cooperating with the police" is seen as a moral virtue.

[Kat Kanning]

Noncooperation with KBCraig is a virtue 

[KBCraig]

Noncooperation with KBCraig is a virtue 

Yes, it's been said that cooperating with me could cost someone their virtue.