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>> somebody the cartels tap who can go and buy weapons legally. inç arizona it might be an 18-year-old kid who is not old enough to buy beer but if he or she has no criminal record they can go into a gun dealership buy 50 ak-47s, pay in cash and face no waiting period or a need for extra permits. there are a lot of kids in arizona who want to make a few extra bucks and this is what they do. >> the cartels find them. you buy the guns and give them to the cartels. >> or intermediaries who give them to the cartels. >> one of the folks they investigated was on food stamps but made $300,000 in pu...

What there was was a protracted struggle to arrest kids, not even old enough to buy beer, who were obviously straw purchasers, andç there was a continual struggle with prosecutors because as they interpreted the laws, the steales were legal, t francefers were legal, and the agents did not have grounds to make seizures or arrests. >> you write about sort of incredible anecdotal stories about the straw purchasers. a person low income enough to be on food stamps, nevertheless, spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on weaponry. a young unemployed person spending five figures on a 50 caliber ...

In the fast and furious case which was one investigation into a group of straw purchasers, there was no operational tactic by atf to walk guns. what there was was a protracted struggle to arrest kids, not even old enough to buy beer, who were obviously straw purchasers, and there was a continual struggle with prosecutors because as they interpreted the laws, the sales were legal, the francefers were legal, and the agents did not have grounds to make seizures or arrests. >> you write about sort of incredible anecdotal stories about the straw purchasers. a person low income enough to be on food ...

>> it is almost too much to believe, isn't it? go ahead. >> like it's a bad dream. like i'm going to wake up. >> it's like they weren't telling us something that we wanted to hear. it was a fog. >> you have been watching what has been going on, you watch congressional hearings. let me remind our audience and remind you congressman darrell issa questioning eric holder on the loss of your son. let me play this for you. >> who exactly was involved? what level of knowledge was, who should be held accountable if, in fact, there were mistakes that were made. that's what the inspector general will be...

>> it is almost too much to believe, isn't it? go ahead. >> like it's a bad dream. like i'm going to wake up. >> it's like they weren't telling us something that we wanted to hear. it was a fog. >> you have been watching what has been going on, you watch congressional hearings. let me remind our audience and remind you congressman darrell issa questioning eric holder on the loss of your son. let me play this for you. >> who exactly was involved? what level of knowledge was, who should be held accountable if, in fact, there were mistakes that were made. that's what the inspector general will be...