Watchdogs Knock ATF’s “Project Gunrunner”

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) is not sharing information with other federal agencies, is not properly communicating with Mexican officials and is focusing too much of their effort on low-level gun traffickers while ignoring the bigger cases, according to a report by the Justice Department Inspector General released Tuesday.

DOJ Inspector General Glenn Fine’s report focuses on ATF’s implementation of “Project Gunrunner,” which became a national initiative in 2006 to combat illegal gun trafficking along the U.S.-Mexico border. Fine found “significant weaknesses in ATF’s implementation of Project Gunrunner undermine its effectiveness.”-[source]