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When we first met ATF Special Agent Kelven Crenshaw, he was telling KOINlocal6, Portland, that a shipment of toy guns the agency had seized could be "easily retro-fitted into dangerous weapons":
"With minimal work it could be converted to a machine gun," Crenshaw said.
To prove his credentials as a professional firearms expert, Crenshaw proceeded to insert a magazine backwards—on video. Click here to watch and pay attention at at the 1:17 mark.
In my March 9 follow-up on this story, I mentioned a related three-part series at Pajamas Media by writer Bob Owens. Click the respective links for parts one, two and three. The whole thing is just excellent, but something he said in his last installment really caught my attention:
This is apparently the same Special Agent Kelven Crenshaw that ATF whistleblower site Cleanup ATF says is a former assistant director demoted and moved for incompetence, reprisals against his own employees, and regulation violations.
Regular readers will remember CleanUp ATF. They're a group of "whistleblowing" bureau insiders who are trying to draw attention to incompetence and corruption. I've cited them a few times as yet another basis for demanding oversight hearings to establish personal accountability for those responsible for abuses--and asked why the "mainstream press" is apparently uninterested.
So what's CleanUpATF's beef with Special Agent Crenshaw? Here's what they say:
Assistant Director of the Office of Professional Responsibility/IA Kelvin Crenshaw is transferred from Seattle, Washington to Washington D.C. just over 12 months ago. He was promoted from Special Agent in Charge to Assistant Director, a 2 level promotion bypassing even a short stay at a Deputy Assistant Director position. This occurred even as he was plagued by and implicated in a series of employee disputes and complaints within his own field division, to include reprisals and violation of no fear act regulations. He was placed in the highest position of integrity in the Bureau, although his own integrity had been questioned on numerous occasions...Crenshaw was Permanently replaced...After approx. one year and the decision that Mr. Crenshaw is clearly not the choice to establish integrity in this corrupted Bureau...
In fairness to Mr. Crenshaw, this assessment is clearly coming from someone with an agenda. His side of things has not been presented. What hasn't been established is whether that agenda is just, whether that assessment is fair, or whether an accomplished professional is being unfairly maligned by disgruntled colleagues.
That's just one more reason why I have been calling for oversight hearings—not just in this matter, but to investigate all the very serious allegations of incompetence and corruption that have been dogging the bureau for years. When they come not just from gun rights activists, but also from agency insiders, you know there are big problems. And the individuals responsible for those problems need to be held accountable.
Why no one in an official capacity or in the "Authorized Journalist" media apparently cares is another story, and a damned inexcusable one at that.
Addendum:
WorldNetDaily features this topic as their headline story today. They quote extensively from one of my Guns Magazine articles, but unfortunately, the link doesn't work. I've sent them the correct link, but unless and until it's fixed, you can read my article by clicking here.
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Reminder: 'No sheriff left behind' tour
Yesterday's event in Cincinnati was the third stop on Sheriff Richard Mack's Ohio tour. Here's where he'll be appearing today and tomorrow:
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TODAY, March 12 Marietta, OH - sponsored by The Marietta OH 9-12 Project
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Saturday, March 13 Akron, OH - sponsored by The Ohio Second Amendment Group
Comments
Clearly another incompetent stooge in the name of diversity. I believe in diversity but not at the cost of quality and competence, you are either highly qualified and have the education and training to prove it or you don't, there is not room for an in-between. Oh, and no the guns could not with stand the pressures of a real round discharging in the chamber. This guy was looking for a bust to make him look good.
This country needs to do away with affirmative action.
Shouldn't the guy in the photo have six fingers?
An "accomplished professional" would know you can't turn airsoft guns into real firearms. Case closed.
You know, to an agency that has officially ruled that a SHOESTRING is a machine gun, an Airsoft is practically a weapon of mass destruction!
www.jpfo.org/images02/shoestring.jpg
Was it diversity or typical government "screw up, move up"? I'd guess both.
Is he really so stupid to think he can get away with this?
No, He really thinks they can be converted!!!!!!
Who are they hiring???????????
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