Senate Stimulus Bill - money for BATFE

[1776 Rebel]

Thanks for searchable PDFs ! I did a search for "gun" and "firearm" in the Senate Stimulus Bill. As everyone knows, this stimulus crap has nothing to do with jobs. Every pork barrel item you can think of is in it. Found one reference to BATF on page 45. The text is as follows:

7 For an additional amount for "State and Local Law
8 Enforcement Assistance", $100,000,000, to remain avail-
9 able until September 30, 2010, for competitive grants to
10 provide assistance and equipment to local law enforcement
11 along the Southern border and in High-Intensity Drug
12 Trafficking Areas to combat criminal narcotics activity
13 stemming &om the Southern border, of which
14 $10,000,000 shall be transferred to "Bureau of tllcohol,
15 Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Salaries and Ex-
16 penses" for the ATF Project Gunrunner.

Is anyone familiar with this Project Gunrunner? 100 Million for BATF ain't nothing to sneeze at. Here is the ATF factsheet:

http://www.usembassy-mexico.gov/eng/texts/et080116eTrace.html

By the way, the searchable text  Senate Stimulus Bill is here...

http://senateconservatives.com/2009/01/27/searchable-text-of-the-stimulus-bill/

Here is the searchable House Stimulus Bill:

http://www.rules.house.gov/111/LegText/111_hr1_text.pdf

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The name "Project Gunrunner" rings a bell, I'll get back to you.

[tombogan03884]

 Found this quote from another forum, 
ATF RUNS PROJECT GUNRUNNER IN SOUTHWEST . . .
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) is concentrating more resources on the country's southwest border as part of its Project Gunrunner (http://www.nssf.org/share/PDF/ProjectGunrunner.pdf) -- an initiative to stem the flow of firearms into Mexico. The program seeks to focus ATF's investigative, intelligence and training resources to suppress firearms trafficking into Mexico and stem violence on both sides of the border. NSSF recently held a firearms industry/ATF seminar in Phoenix, where ATF officials worked to better educate firearms retailers about straw purchasing and gun trafficking. A major focus of the seminar was Project Gunrunner.

My Google Fu is getting stronger  This from ATFE

BORDERS AND LAW ENFORCEMENT
Project Gunrunner
ATF Fact Sheet

ATF is deploying its resources strategically on the Southwest Border to deny firearms, the “tools of the trade,” to criminal organizations in Mexico and along the border, and to combat firearms-related violence affecting communities on both sides of the border. In partnership with other U.S. agencies and with the Government of Mexico, ATF refined its Southwest Border strategy. ATF developed Project Gunrunner to stem the flow of firearms into Mexico and thereby deprive the narcotics cartels of weapons. The initiative seeks to focus ATF’s investigative, intelligence and training resources to suppress the firearms trafficking to Mexico and stem the firearms-related violence on both sides of the border.

Firearms tracing, in particular the expansion of the eTrace firearms tracing system, is a critical component of Project Gunrunner in Mexico. ATF recently deployed eTrace technology in U.S. consulates in Monterrey, Hermosillo and Guadalajara, with six additional deployments to the remaining U.S. consulates in Mexico scheduled by March 2008. ATF has conducted discussions with the government of Mexico regarding the decentralization of the firearms tracing process to deploy Spanish-language eTrace to other Mexico agencies.

In the past two years, ATF has seized thousands of firearms headed to Mexico. Trends indicate the firearms illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border are becoming more powerful. ATF has analyzed firearms seizures in Mexico from FY 2005-07 and identified the following weapons most commonly used by drug traffickers:
· 9mm pistols;
· .38 Super pistols;
· 5.7mm pistols;
· .45-caliber pistols;
· AR-15 type rifles; and
· AK-47 type rifles.

- more -

Most of the firearms violence in Mexico is perpetrated by drug trafficking organizations (DTOs) who are vying for control of drug trafficking routes to the United States and engaging in turf battles for disputed distribution territories. Hundreds of Mexican citizens and law enforcement personnel have become casualties of the firearms-related violence. DTOs operating in Mexico rely on firearms suppliers to enforce and maintain their illicit narcotics operations. Intelligence indicates these criminal organizations have tasked their money laundering, distribution and transportation infrastructures reaching into the United States to acquire firearms and ammunition. These Mexican DTO infrastructures have become the leading gun trafficking organizations operating in the southwest U.S.

ATF has dedicated approximately 100 special agents and 25 industry operations investigators to the SWB initiative over the past two years. ATF has recently assigned special agents to Las Cruces, N.M., and Yuma, Ariz. These assignments are part of a broad plan to increase the strategic coverage and disrupt the firearms trafficking corridors operating along the border.

Cases referred for prosecution under Project Gunrunner.
FY 2006 Cases w/Defendants – 122 Defendants referred for prosecution- 306
FY 2007 Cases w/Defendants – 187 Defendants referred for prosecution- 465

Special agents have been deployed to Monterrey to support the work of the attachés in the ATF Mexico Office and assist Mexican authorities in their fight against firearms related violence. Three additional ATF intelligence research specialists and one investigative analyst are planned for the El Paso Intelligence Center (EPIC) to support Project Gunrunner, along with one intelligence research specialist in each of the four field divisions on the southwest border (Phoenix, Dallas, Houston and Los Angeles).

Firearm tracing intelligence is critical because it allows ATF and its partners to identify trafficking corridors, patterns and schemes as well as traffickers and their accomplices. Firearms tracing helps identify firearms straw purchasers, the traffickers, trafficking networks and patterns, thus allowing law enforcement to target and dismantle the infrastructure supplying firearms to the DTOs in Mexico.

ATF conducts firearms seminars with federal firearms licensees, commonly referred to as licensed gun dealers, to educate the firearms industry on straw purchasers and gun trafficking. More than 3,700 industry members attended outreach events in SWB divisions in FY 2007.

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From what I have seen they are giving money to every one.


inculding almost 700k to a group called "booty call" 


Granted it is a safe sex group, but the point is just about every one is getting money.  its not shocking at all that a goverment agency(s) is getting some.

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ACORN will be getting money as well..... here is more From Malkin

Page 41: The Coast Guard wants more than $572 million for “Acquisition, Construction, & Improvements” They claim these funds will create 1,235 new jobs. Crunch the numbers and this brings the cost of “creating” each job to a staggering $460,000+

Page 23: $200 million for Dep. of Defense to acquire alternative energy vehicles.

Page 32: $1.5 billion (with a “B”) for a “carbon-capturing contest”

Page 64: $3.5 billion for higher education facilities. This is ridiculous as I know in Georgia the Board of Regents has imposed a “temporary” (yea right!) $75 fee per student during this economic crisis. The funds from this per-student fee stays at the school and is used to offset current budget shortfalls.

200 million for DoD plug-in car stations and crunches the numbers: 53,526 plug-in cars = >$3700/car.

And check these out:

P. 45: “$25,000,000 is for recreation maintenance, especially for rehabilitation of off-road vehicle routes, and $20,000,000 is for trail maintenance and restoration.” ATV owners, rejoice.

P. 60: $400 million for HIV and chlamydia testing.

Read this too.... Obama is eating Kobe beef while people lose their jobs........ Let them eat cake?
http://michellemalkin.com/2009/01/29/obama-celebrates-spending-binge-with-cocktails-and-wagyu-steak/

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