Kevin Ferris: How ATF got assault weapons to drug cartels
01:00 AM EDT on Friday, August 26, 2011

By Kevin Ferris
PHILADELPHIA

Back in February 2009, U.S. Atty. Gen. Eric Holder outlined the new administration’s intent on an assault-weapons ban:

“As President Obama indicated during the campaign, there are just a few gun-related changes that we would like to make, and among them would be to reinstitute the ban on the sale of assault weapons.â€