they exhausted all warning measures, flashing lights and fired warning shots before using force against the small civilian pleasure craft as it approached the navy oil tanker for a second time. one defense official said that the small boat initially turned around and came back in a menacing manner and the navy fleet put out this statement: the u.s. crew repeatedly attempted to warn the vessels operators to turn around from their deliberate approach and when the efforts failed to deter the approaching vessel, the security team on the ship fired rounds from a 50 caliber machine gun. one was killed and three injured about den miles off the coast the united arab emirates sweat of southwest of a port near dubai used by the navy. and the pentagon announced they would send the aircraft carrier
might be engaging in illegal sales practices, and then we went just as you would undercover into those stores. he showed us a difference between a dealer who played by the rules and one who didn t. first a sale done the right way. i want to look at this 9mm. this is the voice of an investigator coming in asking about the gun, talking to the sales person. he walked in with a woman, but she s not asking any questions. here at the moment where the paperwork has to be filled out. lo and behold, the woman comes in and says i ll fill out the paperwork. you have to do it. it s the law. even it s for her? she didn t say anything about a gun. you can t buy a gun? it s for me.
you re watching an atf sting operation in progress. the action caught on a camera mounted in the dashboard. here cash is exchanged, and in minutes the deal is done. this is the end of the chain for illegal gun trafficking. but finding out how guns get into criminal hands in the first place is the new frontier for solving gun crime. the enormous light bulb that s gone off in the last 10 or 15 years is that this identifiable movement of guns is from the legitimate market to the illegal market is real, it s hugely problematic. it s already illegal. and it s something we can do something about. you talk about the flow of guns from the legal side to the illegal side. how easy in the country is it for a criminal to get a gun? it s frighteningly easy. it s like a kid buying beer.
with this video alone, the atf has enough evidence to make several arrests on federal weapons charges. but with more investigation, agent eberhart realizes he can bring down the whole gang on a tougher charge, conspiracy to distribute narcotics with firearms. everybody has prior arrests and prior convictions for narcotics and/or gun violations. all of those prior arrests and/or convictions we utilized in our investigation. plain-clothed agents spread out and make the arrest. they investigate the neighborhood and find it riddled with drugs and guns, all part of the brothers in arms surf. in all, 20 guns are rounded up. a high-power arsenal including pistols, rifles, revolvers and something usually seen in the military. it was the one carried down the street in an attempt to shoot at a fleeing vehicle.
you find somebody who s not a felon. you have them go to a gun store. they buy a gun. you hand it off like a six-pack, and you re done. it s called a straw buy. it s one of the most common ways guns are trafficked. in fact, most crime guns aren t smuggled or stolen or purchased at gun shows, but bought at federally-licensed stores. new york city did its own investigation of straw buyers at 40 dealers in five different states. john feinblack. the criminal justice coordinator for the city of new york. there are a small number of dealers not playing by the rules. those are the dealers often having their guns repeatedly turning up at crime scenes and turning up in relatively short periods after they ve been sold. how did you folks carry out this investigation? what we did was we compiled a list of dealers that we thought