A senior agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives—better known as the ATF—told CBS and the Center for Public Integrity that ATF supervisors instructed agents to not intercept weapons made in suspicious sales, but to monitor them to see where the weapons ended up.
You just can’t make this stuff up. One hopes this is just colossal stupidity and incompetence on the part of ATF and not corruption.