didn t they get arrested? that s a great question. it s illegal to be a straw purchasers, but how do you make that case? prosecutors made it almost impossible to make those arrests and to seize those guns. they were continually determining in their analysis of the law that the sales and the transfers were legal. atf did not agree. there is copious evidence that atf agents demanded we want to seize these guns. we want to make these arrests, but prosecutors blocked them. we re a nation of laws. atf agents can under decide that they re going to make arrests or seize guns without prosecutors okay. if they have asked and prosecutors have answered and the answer is no, that s it. is this a prosecutor scandal? were the prosecutors decisions in these cases wild departures from the law? were they making prosecutorial discretion decisions that were wildly incompatible with what
that case? prosecutors made it almost impossible to make those arrests and to seize those guns. they were continually determining in their analysis of the law that the sales and the transfers were legal. atf did not agree. there is copious evidence that atf agents demanded we want to seize these guns. we want to make these arrests, but prosecutors blocked them. we re a nation of laws. atf agents can under decide that they re going to make arrests or seize guns without prosecutors okay. if they have asked and prosecutors have answered and the answer is no, that s it. is this a prosecutor scandal? were the prosecutors decisions in these cases wild departures from the law?รง were they making prosecutorial discretion decisions that were wildly incompatible with what had previously bun done or are the gun laws really, really lax. that s a hard time to answer
determining in their analysis of the law that the sales and the transfers were legal. atf did not agree. there is copious evidence that atf agents demanded we want to seize these guns. we want to make these arrests, but prosecutors blocked them. we re a nation of laws. atf agents can under decide that they re going to make arrests or seize guns without prosecutors okay. if they have asked and prosecutors have answered and the answer is no, that s it. is this a prosecutor scandal? were the prosecutors decisions in these cases wild departures from the law? were they making prosecutorial discretion decisions that were wildly incompatible with what had previously bun done or are the gun laws really, really lax. that s a hard time to answer and i spend a lot of time and energy in my reporting trying to determine just that.