Grassley pushes Biden administration for information on gun trafficking into Mexico after CBS Reports investigation
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Washington — A top senator on Capitol Hill is pushing the Biden administration to provide more information on the steps it is taking to stem the flow of firearms from the U.S. into Mexico following a CBS Reports investigation that exposed how Americans are helping Mexican drug cartels smuggle weapons across the southern border.
Sen. Chuck Grassley, a Republican from Iowa, sent a letter to the head of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives on Tuesday requesting all records relating to Project Thor and a briefing on the program, which was an interagency initiative launched in 2018 aimed at identifying and dismantling the supply chains across the U.S. that provide weapons to Mexican drug cartels. The effort was denied funding for fiscal year 2022 by ATF, CBS News found.
In his letter to ATF Director Steven Dettelbach, Grassley accused the bureau of directing resources away from targeting criminal actors to focus on law-abiding gun owners and sellers instead, citing its revocation of federal firearms licenses and a proposed rule that broadens the definition of who is required to become a federal firearms licensee.
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