The family of murdered Border Patrol agent Brian Terry has filed a $25 million wrongful death claim against the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives claiming Terry was killed with AK-47s that were knowingly sold under the Fast and Furious gunrunning probe to a straw purchaser for drug cartels.

In a 65-page complaint, served on the government on Wednesday, attorneys for the family claim ATF "wrongdoing" in Operation Fast and Furious.

“ATF's failures were not only negligent but in violation of ATF's own policies and procedures," the complaint claims.

The family has also filed a claim against the Lone Wolf Trading Company seeking unspecified damages for negligence in selling the weapons to the purchaser and aiding and abetting in Mexican drug cartels’ conduct.

The claim says Lone Wolf knowingly sold "hundreds of weapons" to various straw purchasers and in turn realized "hundreds of thousands of dollars in profits from these sales."

The claim alleges that "but for defendants' negligent and illegal sales ... Brian Terry would not have been murdered in the Arizona desert on Dec. 14, 2010."

The family is seeking a jury trial.

The government now has six months to respond or the Terry family will file a suit for the $25 million.

According to the claim, agent Terry was patrolling near Rio Rico on the night of Dec. 14, 2010 when he was shot and killed by criminals yielding assault rifles. Those rifles were traced to a straw purchaser for Mexican drug cartels in Arizona who the ATF knew about and allowed to deliver the weapons to the cartels.

“The murder of agent Terry and other acts of violent crimes were the natural consequence of ATF's decision to let dangerous weapons designed to kill human beings 'walk' into the hands of violent drug-trafficking gangs,” the complaint reads.

The claim also contends that the circumstances that led to Terry’s murder were not isolated events, but rather there were thousands of guns purchased under occasional ATF surveillance with no way of tracking all the weapons from straw purchases.

In a second claim filed against Lone Wolf Trading Company, the Terrys say the company should have recognized the illegal and risky nature of the purchases, but it instead ignored its legal obligation under federal and state law to refuse illegal firearm sales.

The company was not only aware that the purchases were illegal and part of the Fast and Furious operation, but it also knew the ATF did not arrest the purchasers and let the straw buyers continue to make illegal buys, according to the claim.

Both the ATF and Lone Wolf were unavailable for comment on Wednesday.

The family stated in their claim against the ATF that Christmas 2010 was to be the first the family was to spend together in three years because of Brian’s ATF duties. Brian was killed two days before he was to fly home to Michigan.

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I dont think they'll get 25 mil.Even though the govt facilitated
the transfer of the gun,its employee did'nt pull the trigger.
Randy Weaver only got 3 mil for the govt employee
shooting his wife.And the man who did it walks free

I thought guns don't kill but people does.

Do you seriously believe without the ATF this guy wouldn't be armed and couldn't kill this BP agent ?

Cazeilles wrote:

I thought guns don't kill but people does.

Do you seriously believe without the ATF this guy wouldn't be armed and couldn't kill this BP agent ?

The doj through the atf knew what it was doing. Selling American guns to mexican drug cartels to weaken our second amendment.

"Do you seriously believe without the ATF this guy wouldn't be armed and couldn't kill this BP agent"

Don't be a blockhead. The ATF facilitated his murder by providing access to weapons. I hope he gets $100 million. It would be money far better spent than by obama on his horseshit "green" projects.

While the border security guard's family should get some compensation such as funeral expense reimbursal, I see no reason for one penny more.

Start at $250,000,000.00 and let the Cock-holder shit his pants with that number.

The fucking nigger is toast in November

Bat2 wrote:

While the border security guard's family should get some compensation such as funeral expense reimbursal, I see no reason for one penny more.

Exactly,if he wanted a safe job there are plenty to choose from.
In a good economy that is.

I'd be happy if they simply turned Holder into a pinata at some Mexican drug lord's kid's birthday party.

robert99 wrote:

"Do you seriously believe without the ATF this guy wouldn't be armed and couldn't kill this BP agent"

Don't be a blockhead. The ATF facilitated his murder by providing access to weapons. I hope he gets $100 million. It would be money far better spent than by obama on his horseshit "green" projects.

Kind of like suing a bank for knowningly lending you money to buy a giant house you should have never had access to in the first fucking place because the Justice Department forced the bank to do so.

NOZZLE wrote:

Kind of like suing a bank for knowningly lending you money to buy a giant house you should have never had access to in the first fucking place because the Justice Department forced the bank to do so.

Same ball park different game. The Banking scam was done to directly buy votes. Fast and Furious was done to control those they couldn't buy. In the first game no one dies but in the second game several people die so someone needs to pay, out the ass hopefully. Some prison time would be nice too.

chevy wrote:


Same ball park different game. .

That was obviously a bad joke I started out with, but you get the point.

First of all, Cazieles, you are a moron for even commenting on this since you know nothing about it. I hope your wife or mother gets raped by some muslim street filth in Pareeee'

I'm kind of curious as to how many people and at what levels knew of this gun saturation program. If it was even down to the street agents like Brian Terry, he and they should have quit en masse knowing that their lives were being endangered by a reckless out of control administration.

Then you have the hundreds of mexican peasants who were killed as a result of this deliberate gun saturation. Yet they continue to support this marxist filth in the whitehouse.

Then you have a press that could care less and would probably tell you

But you never complained when Bush did [fill in the blank]