{"id":63402,"date":"2016-09-13T16:56:32","date_gmt":"2016-09-13T20:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/?p=63402"},"modified":"2016-09-13T16:56:32","modified_gmt":"2023-08-20T05:37:55","slug":"doj-finds-serious-flaws-atfs-undercover-storefront-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/doj-finds-serious-flaws-atfs-undercover-storefront-operations\/","title":{"rendered":"DOJ Finds Serious Flaws in ATF\u2019s Undercover Storefront Operations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_63403\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/ATF.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"doj-finds-serious-flaws-atfs-undercover-storefront-operations\" title=\"DOJ Finds Serious Flaws in ATF\u2019s Undercover Storefront Operations\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-63403\" title=\"DOJ Finds Serious Flaws in ATF\u2019s Undercover Storefront Operations\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-63403\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/ATF-400x267.jpg\" alt=\"ATF's Firearm Library ( Photo: MPR Photo\/Brandt Williams)\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/ATF-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/ATF-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/ATF.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-63403\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ATF&#8217;s Firearm Library (<em>Photo: MPR Photo\/Brandt Williams<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Department of Justice\u2019s Office of the Inspector General released a <a href=\"https:\/\/oig.justice.gov\/reports\/2016\/o1606.pdf#page=5\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"doj-finds-serious-flaws-atfs-undercover-storefront-operations\" title=\"DOJ Finds Serious Flaws in ATF\u2019s Undercover Storefront Operations\">report<\/a> last week outlining a number of serious flaws within the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearm\u2019s undercover storefront operations.<\/p>\n<p>While the IG did not recommend shutting down the storefronts, investigators did identify numerous areas of concern including a lack of oversight, training, planning, and expertise. The report also notes that the ATF failed to determine the success of its operations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe did not find evidence that ATF examined the impact of the operations to determine if they had achieved measurable success on the specific crime problems that they were designed to address,\u201d the report read.<\/p>\n<p>The ATF has been running undercover storefront operations for the last several years. The fake businesses usually revolve around secondhand stores, though the ATF also set up one in a tattoo parlor and one in a mobile van. Once the storefronts are established, ATF agents spread the word that they\u2019re looking to buy used guns, no questions asked. Prohibited persons or those attempting to sell illegal guns are either prosecuted or used to lure additional criminals into the sting.<\/p>\n<p>The strategy seems straightforward enough, but it comes with limitations. Even with proper training and oversight, the storefront technique often requires more effort and resources than it\u2019s worth. Rather than targeting a specific potential criminal, ATF agents opened their stores in the hopes that a high-level target of federal interest would one day wander in.<\/p>\n<p>That never happened. The ATF purchased hundreds of firearms but never made headway into criminal organizations. As the head of the FBI\u2019s undercover program told the IG, storefronts are \u201ca crude tool to target a crime problem\u201d and that any storefront employed by the FBI would have to have predicated targets.<\/p>\n<h2>See also:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/holders-shocking-fast-furious-email\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"doj-finds-serious-flaws-atfs-undercover-storefront-operations\" title=\"DOJ Finds Serious Flaws in ATF\u2019s Undercover Storefront Operations\">Holder\u2019s shocking Fast &amp; Furious email<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>The sting operation the ATF set up in a mobile van exemplified the problems with the storefront strategy in general as well as the ATF\u2019s shoddy execution in particular. The van operated for nearly a year selling sneakers and cigarettes, but produced nothing more than four guns and a small amount of drugs. As one supervisor noted in the report, \u201cthe likelihood of bumping into an individual that just happens to be walking down the street as you\u2019re selling product out of the back of a van that\u2019s willing to trade you a gun for sneakers is nil.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Deficient oversight and training also resulted in a lack of clear policy in the ATF\u2019s approach to juveniles. Though juveniles are obviously not targets of federal interest, one storefront relied on a juvenile to facilitate 15 percent of all the illegal firearms purchased by the covert team, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.districtsentinel.com\/d-o-j-watchdog-finds-t-f-relied-juveniles-facilitate-illegal-gun-purchases\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"doj-finds-serious-flaws-atfs-undercover-storefront-operations\" title=\"DOJ Finds Serious Flaws in ATF\u2019s Undercover Storefront Operations\">The District Sentinel<\/a> noted. One teenager at a different storefront sold ten firearms to the agents during the course of the operation, despite the fact that, according to one agent, teens weren\u2019t \u201cencouraged\u201d to sell firearms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe found that ATF\u2019s approach to juveniles at the storefronts was inconsistent,\u201d the IG noted, finding that there were \u201cfew, if any\u201d discussions from bureau headquarters about how the various storefronts should deal with minors.<\/p>\n<p>The ATF, according to the IG, is fully complying with all of its recommendations. \u00a0However, given the ATF&#8217;s horrible track record with its previous sting operations, e.g.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/another-fast-furious-gun-recovered-crime-scene\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"doj-finds-serious-flaws-atfs-undercover-storefront-operations\" title=\"DOJ Finds Serious Flaws in ATF\u2019s Undercover Storefront Operations\"> Operation Fast and Furious<\/a>, Operation Fearless (see video below), one shouldn&#8217;t be too optimistic that any real change will happen at the ATF.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ATF has been running undercover storefront operations for the last several years with dubious results and serious flaws. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":63403,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_specdata_upc":"","_specdata_placement":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[244,7,25,593,240],"tags":[304,132,607],"featured":[],"hunt365":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-63402","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-2nd-amendment-r2kba","8":"category-gunsamerica-authors","9":"category-current-events","10":"category-jordan-michaels","11":"category-this-week","12":"tag-atf","13":"tag-buzz","14":"tag-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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