scheduled hearings were NOT broadcast, curious isn't it?

[Henry Bowman]

ATF didn't meet 'best practices'

Probably wasn't "6 Sigma" either. More importantly, it didn't pass the smell test and any federal agent should have known that it was illegal and unConstitutional.

"Our internal review has shown no evidence of misconduct or any concerns reflecting negatively on the integrity of our agents or our [other law enforcement agency] partners," Bouchard said.

Please remove your head from [not THR] and look again.

Bouchard replied that some gun buyers' family members were falsely denying that the buyer lived at their address for reasons unrelated to the firearm purchase.

"That was giving us what we call 'false positives,' [because] they'd say 'No, he doesn't live here,'" Bouchard explained. "We would then stop the sale of that gun.

"So we, then, had to practice telling people, 'This is why we're here. We have no other concerns. We're not looking to do anything else,'" Bouchard continued. "We had the same response [from neighbors]. 'Why are you asking?' So we made it a standard practice just to tell them, 'They're looking to buy a firearm. We're trying to verify their residence.'"

:banghead:

"We had changed our practices from reacting to straw purchases and, blatant 'straw purchases,' to more proactive," Bouchard said. "We would walk the floor and, if we saw blatant straw purchases, we would try and stop those before we occurred."

Before we occured? Hopefully that is a typo. In any event, is there any chance that what you thought was a "blatant strw purchase" wasn't and you simply intimidated many women, minorities or newbees?

 

[alan]

Re the "feelings" expressed by a BATFE'r, I suppose that Hitler, Eichman, Stalin, Pol Pot, readers are free to add to the foregoing short list, "felt" that they were doing good works too.

History seems to have a different take on that point. Strange isn't.