{"id":159658,"date":"2022-02-14T12:03:25","date_gmt":"2022-02-14T17:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/?p=159658"},"modified":"2022-02-14T12:03:25","modified_gmt":"2023-09-08T03:15:16","slug":"atf-this-valentines-day-nark-on-your-ex-for-firearms-violations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/atf-this-valentines-day-nark-on-your-ex-for-firearms-violations\/","title":{"rendered":"ATF: This Valentine\u2019s Day, Nark on Your Ex for Firearms Violations!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" title=\"ATF: This Valentine\u2019s Day, Nark on Your Ex for Firearms Violations!\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/FLjxgDzXsAQoDuj-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"ATF: This Valentine\u2019s Day, Nark on Your Ex for Firearms Violations!\" class=\"wp-image-159660\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/FLjxgDzXsAQoDuj-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/FLjxgDzXsAQoDuj-400x225.jpg 400w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/FLjxgDzXsAQoDuj-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/FLjxgDzXsAQoDuj-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/FLjxgDzXsAQoDuj-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/FLjxgDzXsAQoDuj.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption><em>The ATF got creative for Valentine&#8217;s Day.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The hapless federal agency tasked with investigating and prosecuting firearms violations has announced a new strategy for identifying suspects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) posted a graphic across their social media platforms this morning encouraging readers to turn in their ex-lovers this Valentine\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cValentine&#8217;s Day can still be fun even if you broke up. Do you have information about a former (or current) partner involved in illegal gun activity? Let us know, and we will make sure it&#8217;s a Valentine&#8217;s Day to remember! Call 1-888-ATF-TIPS or email <a href=\"mailto:ATFTips@atf.gov\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"atf-this-valentines-day-nark-on-your-ex-for-firearms-violations\" title=\"ATF: This Valentine\u2019s Day, Nark on Your Ex for Firearms Violations!\">ATFTips@atf.gov<\/a>,\u201d the captions reads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Valentine&#8217;s Day can still be fun even if you broke up. Do you have information about a former (or current) partner involved in illegal gun activity? Let us know, and we will make sure it&#8217;s a Valentine&#8217;s Day to remember! Call 1-888-ATF-TIPS or email ATFTips@atf.gov. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OdDIPdIzkr\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"atf-this-valentines-day-nark-on-your-ex-for-firearms-violations\" title=\"ATF: This Valentine\u2019s Day, Nark on Your Ex for Firearms Violations!\">pic.twitter.com\/OdDIPdIzkr<\/a><\/p>\u2014 ATF HQ (@ATFHQ) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ATFHQ\/status\/1493208813670965248?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"atf-this-valentines-day-nark-on-your-ex-for-firearms-violations\" title=\"ATF: This Valentine\u2019s Day, Nark on Your Ex for Firearms Violations!\">February 14, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote> \n\n\n\n<p>The response on social media came fast and furious. Here are a few of the gems from Twitter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">These Google search terms will get you started:<br \/>Fast and Furious<br \/>Eric Holder<br \/>Border Patrol Officer Brian Terry (deceased)<br \/>Maria Susan Flores Gamez &#8220;Miss Sinaloa&#8221; (deceased)<br \/>ATF gun-running operation<\/p>\u2014 MarkHyman (@MarkHyman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarkHyman\/status\/1493238039912591361?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"atf-this-valentines-day-nark-on-your-ex-for-firearms-violations\" title=\"ATF: This Valentine\u2019s Day, Nark on Your Ex for Firearms Violations!\">February 14, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote> \n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">He&#8217;s not a former or current partner, but here&#8217;s a tip regarding an illegal gun purchase.<br \/>Name: Robert Hunter Biden: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CCNuhw9qxE\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"atf-this-valentines-day-nark-on-your-ex-for-firearms-violations\" title=\"ATF: This Valentine\u2019s Day, Nark on Your Ex for Firearms Violations!\">pic.twitter.com\/CCNuhw9qxE<\/a><\/p>\u2014 Deb Heine, Dissident (@NiceDeb) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NiceDeb\/status\/1493252671142305793?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"atf-this-valentines-day-nark-on-your-ex-for-firearms-violations\" title=\"ATF: This Valentine\u2019s Day, Nark on Your Ex for Firearms Violations!\">February 14, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote> \n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">If you ever feel useless, just remember the ATF exists.<\/p>\u2014 Kyle J (@KyleJoh29938881) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KyleJoh29938881\/status\/1493236896629243904?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"atf-this-valentines-day-nark-on-your-ex-for-firearms-violations\" title=\"ATF: This Valentine\u2019s Day, Nark on Your Ex for Firearms Violations!\">February 14, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote> \n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I have information on some guys who trafficked guns to Mexican drug cartels<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EricHolder?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"atf-this-valentines-day-nark-on-your-ex-for-firearms-violations\" title=\"ATF: This Valentine\u2019s Day, Nark on Your Ex for Firearms Violations!\">@EricHolder<\/a> masterminded the whole scheme, and then had his best friend <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BarackObama?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"atf-this-valentines-day-nark-on-your-ex-for-firearms-violations\" title=\"ATF: This Valentine\u2019s Day, Nark on Your Ex for Firearms Violations!\">@BarackObama<\/a> assert executive privilege to protect him from having to testify<br \/><br \/>their co-conspirator was an agency called <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ATFHQ?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"atf-this-valentines-day-nark-on-your-ex-for-firearms-violations\" title=\"ATF: This Valentine\u2019s Day, Nark on Your Ex for Firearms Violations!\">@ATFHQ<\/a><\/p>\u2014 Michael A. Wolff (@WolffintheWild) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WolffintheWild\/status\/1493227373818519556?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"atf-this-valentines-day-nark-on-your-ex-for-firearms-violations\" title=\"ATF: This Valentine\u2019s Day, Nark on Your Ex for Firearms Violations!\">February 14, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote> \n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">America&#8217;s ex-boyfriend, Eric Holder <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zQycSxjiOq\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"atf-this-valentines-day-nark-on-your-ex-for-firearms-violations\" title=\"ATF: This Valentine\u2019s Day, Nark on Your Ex for Firearms Violations!\">pic.twitter.com\/zQycSxjiOq<\/a><\/p>\u2014 \ud835\udd4e\ud835\udd52\ud835\udd6a\ud835\udd46\ud835\udd57\ud835\udd4b\ud835\udd59\ud835\udd56\u2102\ud835\udd63\ud835\udd52\ud835\udd5f\ud835\udd56\u9db4 (@WayOfTheCrane) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WayOfTheCrane\/status\/1493237861377847299?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"atf-this-valentines-day-nark-on-your-ex-for-firearms-violations\" title=\"ATF: This Valentine\u2019s Day, Nark on Your Ex for Firearms Violations!\">February 14, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote> \n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\"><p lang=\"und\" dir=\"ltr\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FWBY64utZc\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"atf-this-valentines-day-nark-on-your-ex-for-firearms-violations\" title=\"ATF: This Valentine\u2019s Day, Nark on Your Ex for Firearms Violations!\">pic.twitter.com\/FWBY64utZc<\/a><\/p>\u2014 Wormwood (@allenherd) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/allenherd\/status\/1493254072438247430?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"atf-this-valentines-day-nark-on-your-ex-for-firearms-violations\" title=\"ATF: This Valentine\u2019s Day, Nark on Your Ex for Firearms Violations!\">February 14, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote> \n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"see-also-atf-admits-it-has-nearly-1-billion-gun-records-gop-lawmakers-ask-how-is-this-not-a-registry\">SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/atf-1-billion-gun-records-gop-lawmakers-registry\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"atf-this-valentines-day-nark-on-your-ex-for-firearms-violations\" title=\"ATF: This Valentine\u2019s Day, Nark on Your Ex for Firearms Violations!\">ATF Admits It Has Nearly 1 Billion Gun Records, GOP Lawmakers Ask, \u2018How Is This Not a Registry?\u2019<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Many of the comments revolved around one of three stories. The most common response noted that from 2009 to 2011, the ATF itself allowed Mexican drug cartels to obtain over 2,000 firearms used to kill at least 100 Mexicans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dubbed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/operation-fast-and-furious-and-the-romanian-cugir-wasr-10-63\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"atf-this-valentines-day-nark-on-your-ex-for-firearms-violations\" title=\"ATF: This Valentine\u2019s Day, Nark on Your Ex for Firearms Violations!\">\u201cFast and Furious,\u201d<\/a> this operation was ostensibly designed to track firearms from straw purchases in the United States to high-level Mexican drug cartel leaders.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the ATF failed to trace most of the firearms agents allowed to \u201cwalk\u201d and many were found at homicides much later, according to a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/oig.justice.gov\/reports\/2012\/s1209.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"atf-this-valentines-day-nark-on-your-ex-for-firearms-violations\" title=\"ATF: This Valentine\u2019s Day, Nark on Your Ex for Firearms Violations!\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">review<\/a>&nbsp;by the Inspector General for the Department of Justice. Some have also speculated the ATF, at the behest of the Obama administration, allowed the guns to be used in homicides to advance the gun control agenda in the U.S.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">You mean like this? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0twSJ8mhcj\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"atf-this-valentines-day-nark-on-your-ex-for-firearms-violations\" title=\"ATF: This Valentine\u2019s Day, Nark on Your Ex for Firearms Violations!\">https:\/\/t.co\/0twSJ8mhcj<\/a><\/p>\u2014 Show Me The Truckers (@davedoestrading) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/davedoestrading\/status\/1493237957842645001?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"atf-this-valentines-day-nark-on-your-ex-for-firearms-violations\" title=\"ATF: This Valentine\u2019s Day, Nark on Your Ex for Firearms Violations!\">February 14, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote> \n\n\n\n<p>Other commenters to the ATF\u2019s Valentine\u2019s Day post pointed out that Hunter Biden, son of President Joe Biden, lied on a Form 4473 in 2018 and has never been prosecuted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That year, Hunter Biden purchased a .38-caliber revolver and marked \u201cNo\u201d on the question, \u201cAre you an unlawful user of, or addicted to, marijuana or any depressant, stimulant, narcotic drug, or any other controlled substance?\u201d according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/03\/25\/sources-secret-service-inserted-itself-into-case-of-hunter-bidens-gun-477879\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"atf-this-valentines-day-nark-on-your-ex-for-firearms-violations\" title=\"ATF: This Valentine\u2019s Day, Nark on Your Ex for Firearms Violations!\">Politico<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hunter Biden is infamously addicted to drugs and was discharged from the Navy Reserve in 2013 after testing positive for cocaine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When Hallie, now Hunter Biden\u2019s wife, found the gun in his pickup truck, she tried to throw it away in the trash can of a nearby grocery store. Hunter claims Hallie was worried he was going to kill himself, but he became \u201cvery agitated\u201d when asked if the gun had been used in a crime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The gun was recovered and turned in to authorities by a man who was searching through trash cans for recyclables.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hunter has not been prosecuted, and ATF agents confiscated the purchase forms from the gun store the day of the incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"see-also-atf-raids-home-of-amish-man-in-pennsylvania-who-admits-to-selling-firearms\">SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/atf-raids-home-of-amish-man-in-pennsylvania-who-admits-to-selling-firearms\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"atf-this-valentines-day-nark-on-your-ex-for-firearms-violations\" title=\"ATF: This Valentine\u2019s Day, Nark on Your Ex for Firearms Violations!\">ATF Raids Home of Amish Man in Pennsylvania Who Admits to Selling Firearms<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Got one for you <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ygcb8aJQuI\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"atf-this-valentines-day-nark-on-your-ex-for-firearms-violations\" title=\"ATF: This Valentine\u2019s Day, Nark on Your Ex for Firearms Violations!\">https:\/\/t.co\/Ygcb8aJQuI<\/a><\/p>\u2014 Caleb Hull (@CalebJHull) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CalebJHull\/status\/1493230230219149319?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"atf-this-valentines-day-nark-on-your-ex-for-firearms-violations\" title=\"ATF: This Valentine\u2019s Day, Nark on Your Ex for Firearms Violations!\">February 14, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote> \n\n\n\n<p>Other commenters slammed the ATF for killing dogs, which is a popular internet meme stemming from the ATF\u2019s involvement in the Ruby Ridge incident. During that incident, federal agents killed Sammy Weaver\u2019s dog, which sparked the first deadly encounter of the 11-day siege of the Weaver property.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\"><p lang=\"und\" dir=\"ltr\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cgsGYF9t1d\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"atf-this-valentines-day-nark-on-your-ex-for-firearms-violations\" title=\"ATF: This Valentine\u2019s Day, Nark on Your Ex for Firearms Violations!\">pic.twitter.com\/cgsGYF9t1d<\/a><\/p>\u2014 Joe In Texas, no hat, no cattle (@Joe86753091) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Joe86753091\/status\/1493250557678690306?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"atf-this-valentines-day-nark-on-your-ex-for-firearms-violations\" title=\"ATF: This Valentine\u2019s Day, Nark on Your Ex for Firearms Violations!\">February 14, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote> \n\n\n\n<p>As of this writing, the ATF has not commented on criticisms of its Valentine\u2019s Day post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\" id=\"track-link-url-https-www-gunsamerica-com-campaign-buysellga-target-blank-buy-and-sell-on-gunsamerica-all-local-sales-are-free-track-link\">***<a href=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/\" campaign=\"BuySellGA_Register\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\">Buy and Sell on GunsAmerica!<\/a>***<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) posted a graphic across their social media platforms encouraging readers to turn in their ex-lovers this Valentine\u2019s 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