• April 4th, 2011 10:55 am ET

David Codrea

• Gun Rights Examiner

Always on the make for the “show case” case to justify their existence and requests for ever increasing budgets,” Lt. Col. Robert K. Brown writes about ATF management in the June Soldier of Fortune magazine, “this travesty, named ‘Project Gun Runner’ ranks right up there with their wretched blunders at Waco and Ruby Ridge, along with the recent attempt to entrap Laotian freedom fighters. ATF spokesmen lamely justify such stupidity, saying they were trying to use this smuggling effort as a means to bring down a major cartel. Though they never explain ‘how’ giving the cartels small arms would result in their demise.”

As per his trademark style, Brown, the magazine’s editor and publisher, pulls no punches. And he deals out “attaboys” with the same passion, as this correspondent learned from the following completely unexpected passage:

"And whom do we thank for exposing this scandal? A number of people. For beginners, David Codrea, a pro-gun activist who writes a column for Guns magazine and Michael Vanderboegh, who is the brains behind the pro-gun blogsite, Sipsey Street Irregulars (www.sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com). If you are seriously interested in this scandal, Vanderboegh’s blogsite has a superb time line."

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