Ex-ATF official's gun ends up at Mexican cartel shootout that killed beauty queen

Via Fox News:

How did a gun belonging to a former assistant special agent in charge at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives end up at a crime scene in Mexico where five died, including a Mexican beauty queen?

That's the question being asked by congressional investigators and ATF officials in Phoenix.

A FN Five-Seven semi-automatic pistol, a high powered handgun originally
restricted to military and law enforcement customers, was recovered by Mexican police at the scene of a Nov. 23 shootout between the Sinaloa Cartel and the Mexican military.

Records show the gun was purchased in January 2010 by George Gillett, the former No. 2 in the ATF office in Phoenix. Gillett now works at ATF headquarters in Washington as a liaison to the federal Bureau of Prisons.

Gillett purchased the weapon at Legendary Arms, a Phoenix gun store. On the federal form 4473 used to buy the gun, Gillett used the ATF office address, 201 East Washington, and said "Apt 940." On subsequent purchase, Gillett used a commercial address, that of a strip mall.

Both actions are illegal, since ATF regulations require buyers use their residential address.  (continue at Fox News)

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Comments

[R.J. Godlewski]

Here we go again with the "high-powered" description. Does every gun making the news tend to be high-powered? The 5.7 is basically a .22 bullet with a little more kick behind it.

"High powered" does not start until you get to, say, a .308/7.62 NATO rifle cartridge.

The FN gains a bit of notoriety because it can pass through vests, but so can most high-speed rounds.

[(Rhino!) CBPO Jon A Underwood, CBP, Ret.]

RJ,

As "we" already know, "high powered" and "high speed or velocity" rarely can describe the same round of ammunition.

The press is so ignorant of anything firearms based as they will do anything, to include the repeating of erroneous descriptions and so called facts in support of the Liberal desire to rid true Americans of the capability to defend themselves from a government takeover.

I have had to educate our local TV NBC Affiliate here in Yuma, Arizona, several times on the subject.

[Always On Watch]

Deafening silence from the msm. Of course.