![]() ![]() ![]() The Mexican government maintains that an undisclosed number of Fast and Furious weapons have been found at some 170 crime scenes in their country. They have not identified those cases either. They said another 28 Fast and Furious weapons were recovered at violent crimes in Mexico. They have yet to provide any more details. The Department of Justice in Washington said last week that one other Fast and Furious firearm turned up at a violent crime scene in this country. As the case of the two Lone Wolf AK-47s tragically illustrates, the ATF, with a limited force of agents, did not keep track of them. But the agency’s plan to trace the guns to the cartels never worked. Some 2,000 firearms from the Lone Wolf Trading Company store and others in southern Arizona were illegally sold under an ATF program called Fast and Furious that allowed “straw purchasers” to walk away with the weapons and turn them over to criminal traffickers. The bandits left Osorio-Arellanes behind and escaped across the desert, tossing away two AK-47 semiautomatics from Howard’s store. But Terry was bleeding badly, and he died in his colleague’s arms. Tall and nearly 240 pounds, Terry was too heavy to carry. “I think I’m paralyzed.” A bullet had pierced his aorta. “I’m hit!” he cried.Ī fellow agent cradled his friend. Agent Brian Terry - 40, single, a former Marine - also went down. One of the alleged bandits, Manuel Osorio-Arellanes, a 33-year-old Mexican from Sinaloa, was wounded in the abdomen and legs. One agent fired from his sidearm, another with his M-4 rifle. According to a Border Patrol “Shooting Incident” report, the agents fired two rounds of bean bags from a shotgun. ![]()
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