Outrageous!

This is just sick:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=137198108

http://www.npr.org/2011/06/15/137205543/atf-scandal-heats-up-in-congressional-hearing

The BATF sold over 1,800 weapons to illegal buyers, knowing many of them were headed for Mexican drug cartels, and DIDN'T ARREST THE BUYERS. To put icing on the cake, they stopped tracking the weapons well before they reached the Mexican border.

This past weekend, I had to fill out three forms, present two forms of government-issued ID, and wait while my SSI was run through a government database in order to buy two firearms. I should have bought from an undercover ATF agent and saved myself a lot of paperwork! Its not like there would have been a downside - they wouldn't arrest me or track me or anything like that.

Seriously, even a semi-auto rifle goes for over $1,000, easy. That means the BATF sold over TWO MILLION DOLLARS worth of weapons ILLEGALLY. For NOTHING. Wait, that's not fair. They did it to put weapons in the hands of PROBABLE CRIMINALS.

Support Gun Control! So the Government can sell weapons to criminals while denying them to law-abiding citizens.