PRIORITIES: Obama’s gun law enforcement at work: sell 55 illegal guns, get one year probation. “In Milwaukee, where this story takes place, the feckless ATF did another gun walking operation that featured epic incompetency and lots of felons with perfectly good firearms.”

That internal link leads to this 2014 post: Surprise outcome. Incompetent ATF accepts incompetence as the norm:

From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel which broke the case last year:

Members of both parties in Congress have been calling for accountability since the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel first reported problems in Operation Fearless in early 2013.

The investigation found agents used a brain-damaged man with a low IQ to promote the operation and then arrested him; allowed armed felons to leave the store; arrested four of the wrong people; paid such high prices for guns that people bought guns from stores and sold them to agents for a profit; and failed to secure the store, resulting in the operation being burglarized.

Special Agent Michael Aalto, the lead undercover agent, had his guns stolen, including a machine gun, which has not been recovered.

Not surprisingly, Operation Fearless was not limited to Milwaukee. It mirrored similar operations in Albuquerque, NM, Pensacola, FL, Portland, OR, Wichita, KS, and other cities.