The Department of Justice Does Not Purchase Machetes

Attorney General Eric Holder

On Sunday March 13, 2012 49 dismembered bodies were found along a Mexican highway, casualties in an endless war in Mexico between the government and the drug cartels.

On the following Monday an anonymous Department of Justice employee stated that there was no DOJ/ATF program to assist Mexican drug cartels in purchasing knives through restaurant supply stores, or machetes and axes from hardware stores.