This thing is looking more and more like a sort of Mississippi Madness, or South Sea Bubble, where people fervently believed implausible scenarios with a sort of mob-like fervor. Mark my words, Issa is heading into Joe McCarthy territory. He's chewing on what he thinks is a thick steak, and will not let go, as this has been his breakthrough, it's brought him prestige, at least from the devoted NRA contingent on the far right.
Here's the Fortune article's story about the guns found at the scene of Brian Terry's murder:
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Ten days after the meeting with Hurley, a Saturday, Jaime Avila, a transient, admitted methamphetamine user, bought three WASR-10 rifles at the Lone Wolf Trading Company in Glendale, Ariz. The next day, a helpful Lone Wolf employee faxed Avila's purchase form to ATF to flag the suspicious activity. It was the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend, so the agents didn't receive the fax until Tuesday, according to a contemporaneous case report. By that time, the legally purchased guns had been gone for three days. The agents had never seen the weapons and had no chance to seize them. But they entered the serial numbers into their gun database. Two of these were later recovered at Brian Terry's murder scene.
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