ATF involved in day to day busts in NYC
Now in an unprecedented move, a federal agency is joining the effort to get gun crimes under control, CBS2s Marcia Kramer reported Monday.
Kramer is told it was a collective decision made by the federal government, the NYPD, the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
Those agencies are mounting a first-ever anti-gun initiative in high-crime areas.
June 16th, 2015 at 7:18 pm
I say have fun! The ATF is like most federal law enforcement groups. They don’t like dealing with really really bad people. Its easier to bust people for a small violation then it is to actually work for a living and put your life on the line!
June 17th, 2015 at 1:00 am
Smuggling guns to Mexican Drug cartels ain’t what it used to be. There has to be something to do to justify the budgets.
June 17th, 2015 at 1:25 am
Didn’t they already have this? I believe it was called Stop and Frisk.
June 17th, 2015 at 2:54 am
Not “first ever”. This was done in Portland, OR many years ago, back in the 90’s.
Everything old is new again…
June 17th, 2015 at 6:58 am
Let’s not forget Project Exile in Richmmond, VA in 1997.
June 17th, 2015 at 8:22 am
How long before this morphs into a project finding all those violators of the SAFE Act?
June 17th, 2015 at 9:55 am
Classic use of a sledgehammer to swat a fly.
June 17th, 2015 at 10:15 am
In the late 70s, ATF pulled all their agents working stills in the South (and there were a lot of stills and a lot of agents) and sent them to Chicago, New York, Detroit, and elsewhere to work guns. It was called CUE (Concentrated Urban Enforcement) and it concentrated on felons with guns, gangs, and (ironically) gun-running to Mexico.
They actually did some decent work. Operation CUE was the reason that ATF became the agency with the most expertise on biker gangs, Jamaican posses, and MS-13.
Of course, today’s reporters don’t know about anything that happened way back when the years started with a 1.
June 17th, 2015 at 1:37 pm
What could possibly go wrong?