title: BEIRUT ARIZONA Operation Fast and Furious: The Gunwalker Scandal Connecting Mexican Drugs, Gun Control and Islamic Terrorism
author:  Charly Gullett 
description: Charly was trained as a photo-journalist by the US Army Defense Information School during the Viet Nam era in 1971. He spent most of his career as an engineer specializing in robotics, artificial intelligence and analog computer design. He retired in 1996 as a Senior Technical Author for Intel Corporations Microcontroller Division. Charly has been involved in firearms activism for over two decades, has won numerous awards as a competitive shooter, is a graduate of Gunsite Ranch during the Cooper era and is a member of the first group of twenty instructors to be certified in Arizona as concealed weapons trainers. In the early 1990s he served as the Public Information Officer for the Arizona State Rifle and Pistol association during the Clinton administrations anti-rights assault on firearms owners. Now retired he has also been a gunsmith, a federally licensed Class III firearms dealer and has been a long time Endowment Life Member of the National Rifle Association. This is his sixth book in the Warfield Activist series. The entire collection of volumes in the series is available at warfieldpress.com
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  # Politics this week
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Jun 18th 2016
  
  
  | [From the print edition](../..//printedition/2016-06-18)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  A gunman, apparently inspired by Islamic State, attacked a gay nightclub in
  _Orlando_ , Florida, killing 49 people. The suspect, Omar Mateen, died in a
  shoot-out with police, who stormed the building. He was born in New York to
  Afghan parents and had attracted the attention of the FBI for a possible
  connection to a suicide-bomber in Syria, though no evidence of a link to
  terrorism was found at the time. The mass shooting, the deadliest in modern
  American history, prompted the usual calls for stricter gun-control laws and
  concomitant resistance from gun-rights groups. The share prices of gunmakers
  soared. See [here](../../feed_1/article_1/index_u17.html) and
  [here](../../feed_4/article_0/index_u58.html).
  
  
  