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« One incredible fightfight | Main | Very strange NY Times story »

Interesting turn of evens

Posted by David Hardy · 26 April 2013 03:43 PM

Story here. Michael Sullivan was acting head of BATF under George Bush the younger, and gun groups opposed his being made permanent out of concerns that he might be anti-gun.

Since then, he's hired on as outside counsel to the National Shooting Sports Foundation, is now running for the Senate, and has said he'd have voted against the recent Senate gun bill. Since he's running in Massachusetts, that's unlikely to be meant just to garner votes. (He is running as a Republican, but still, we're talking Massachusetts).

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Eric | April 28, 2013 10:30 AM | Reply

I don’t know if Sullivan is a good guy or not, but the linked story seems to try to tie Sullivan to Fast and Furious via the earlier Bush Admin Gunrunner effort. But if I recall correctly, in the Bush Admin tried various ways to track firearms allowed to cross the border, found it wouldn't work, so stopped doing it.

The Obama admin version basically just provided the weapons, didn't even try to track them, just waited for the Mexican authorities to find them so they could blame the US gun community for the problem.

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