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...Cabinet-level post of treasury secretary sits at the top of a 140,000 person-strong bureaucracy, which includes the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF), the Secret Service, as well as 40 percent of federal law enforcement...
...campaign targets gun dealers. Leaflets warn that they risk the same penalties if they go through with a sale knowing, or having reason to suspect, that their customer is buying for someone else. The pamphlets profile typical straw deals and urge dealers to report suspicious characters to 1-800-ATF-GUNS...
...Occasional-seller" unlicensed dealers and gun-show vendors should be regulated in the same way gun-shop owners are: with a waiting period required to allow for background checks, with their books maintained in the same way and inspected by the ATF, and with punishments meted out for those who sell to "straw buyers," those buying for criminals...
...ATF launched a formal undercover investigation and on Thursday, July 1, executed a search warrant at Fiessinger's apartment, where agents found 27 guns and rudimentary sales records. Among the names of customers was Benjamin Smith. At the time, the name meant nothing...
Last year ATF expanded the Yogi tracing studies to 27 cities. In February ATF added 10 more. Each Yogi city found unique patterns, but nearly all discovered the single biggest source of crime guns was the network of licensed dealers operating within their home states. The most important effect was to replace the hopelessness of the late '80s and early '90s with a confidence that the right measures aimed at the right targets could interrupt the flow of guns to the bad guys...