Worth pointing out

From a Houston Chronicle article which details the BATFE's going about one of its few legitimate tasks, the effort to investigate obviously suspicious "straw purchasers" of firearms - that is, people who knowingly buy guns for people who are prohibited by law from doing so, such as criminals, residents of other countries, etc.:

"Some stories, [the ATF agents] say, are hard to believe.

The lamest so far came from a police officer: He said he bought a few military-style rifles, left them in his car and — on the same night — forgot to lock a door. He couldn’t explain why he didn’t file a police report or why he visited Mexico the day after the alleged theft." (Emphasis mine)

We certainly hope that before the next time they go on TV or before Congress and passionately advocate the further restriction of the Constitutionally-protected rights of the common American peasant, the esteemed leaders of that particular jack-booted agency happen to recall that the most egregious suspected gunrunner their agents turned up just happened to be one of the "special people" who are the "only ones professional enough to carry firearms in public" (and the "only ones" who can buy them for legal purposes, too, it now appears).