David Codrea reports further on Gunwalker, bringing closer to home the fact that the federal government induced gun retailers to make otherwise illegal weapon sales—with weapons ending up passed to criminals.  I comment here mostly because of the politically-correct mainstream media’s disinterest, which is David’s major point in this article.

The press musters enthusiasm for gun-related stories when those fit the “government as Big Brother” anti-Second Amendment narrative.  The mainstream media investigation into Gunwalker has been, well, missing in action.  Contrast, please, the mainstream media’s interest in “high capacity magazines” after the Jared Loughner rampage.   David credits the new media, bloggers, commenters, and readers—people like you.  As David urges, “That’s why regular readers are continuously solicited to share links…”  I comply, and thank one of my own regular readers for bring David’s article to my attention.

I comment also because there now appear to be at least seven dimensions to Gunwalker:

1) sales across the border, supposedly intended to result in somehow traceable transfers to drug gangs;

2) this president’s administration’s cynical use of the project to officially spew anti-gun propaganda, in collusion with a foreign power (Mexico) and a complicit, leftist American press;

3) experiments by ATFE within the United States, to track, trace, and study how straw-man purchases percolate to criminals;

4) the risk to the public created by the operations—creating the same deadly risk that the laws are supposedly intended to prevent;

5) the risk to BATF agents of integrity who tried to stave off use of the agency to induce citizens into committing criminal acts;

6) the corrosive, corrupting influence of cover-up;

7) the risk to the gun shop owner that his solicited, good-citizen cooperation will result in his prosecution by the government for the very act that the government requested him to perform.

To gun store owners: Be very careful about cooperating with any law enforcement agency asking you to make a straw-man sale.  The benefit to law enforcement seems dubious at best, the risk to the public is for real, and you put yourself in a very tenuous spot.  Seek advice of counsel at the minimum.