{"id":4671,"date":"2011-03-10T17:12:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-10T17:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2011\/03\/10\/indictment-at-center-of-operation-fas\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:13:42","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:13:42","slug":"indictment-at-center-of-operation-fas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=4671","title":{"rendered":"Indictment At Center Of Operation Fast And Furious"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:17250,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.atf.gov\\\/press\\\/releases\\\/2011\\\/01\\\/012511-pho-grand-juries-indict-34-suspects-in-drug-and-firearms-trafficking-organization.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:17989,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.scribd.com\\\/doc\\\/49618320\\\/ATF-AVILA-Jaime-Indictment-USBP-Agent-Terry-Murder&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.scribd.com\\\/doc\\\/49618320\\\/ATF-AVILA-Jaime-Indictment-USBP-Agent-Terry-Murder&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>On January 25th, Dennis Burke, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Arizona, announced <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atf.gov\/press\/releases\/2011\/01\/012511-pho-grand-juries-indict-34-suspects-in-drug-and-firearms-trafficking-organization.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a grand jury indictment of 20 people<\/a> on gun-running and drug charges. These charges were based upon the Operation Gunrunner (now Fast and Furious) investigation by the Phoenix Field Division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives. It seemed like a big bust at the time and it got a lot of publicity &#8211; as it was intended to do. We now know that this was only the tip of the iceberg.<\/p>\n<p>Reading through the indictment of Jaime Avila, Jr. and the other defendents is interesting. By my rough count, the defendents purchased 717 firearms while only 123 were recovered by police and other law enforcement agencies. The majority of the firearms were sold by Lone Wolf Trading of Glendale, AZ. Indeed, I count 618 AK rifles and&nbsp;AK Draco pistols&nbsp;sold by them alone.<\/p>\n<p>My conclusion on reading the indictment is that no FFL would have sold anything in that sort of quantity without the permission (and encouragement) of ATF. <\/p>\n<p>Second, red flags had to be going off in Clarksburg, WV where the FBI was processing all those NICS checks before allowing the sales to go through. The FBI has not been mentioned in connection with Operation Gunwalker previously&nbsp;but these sales could not have been processed without their assistance. This leads to the question of what the FBI knew about this investigation and were they ordered by higher-ups in the Justice Department to provide assistance to ATF&#8217;s ongoing investigation. If so, who?<\/p>\n<p>\nH\/T The Firing Line forum<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/49618320\/ATF-AVILA-Jaime-Indictment-USBP-Agent-Terry-Murder\" style=\"display: block; font: 14px Helvetica, Arial, Sans-serif; margin: 12px auto 6px; text-decoration: underline;\" title=\"View ATF - AVILA, Jaime Indictment - USBP Agent Terry Murder on Scribd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ATF &#8211; AVILA, Jaime Indictment &#8211; USBP Agent Terry Murder<\/a>                      <\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On January 25th, Dennis Burke, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Arizona, announced a grand jury indictment of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[544],"class_list":["post-4671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-project-gunwalker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4671"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6383,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4671\/revisions\/6383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}