(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Border Patrol agent Brian Terry, who was murdered in 2010 thanks to the ATF’s ill-conceived operation known as Fast and Furious, was ironically trying to stop weapons smuggling in the lead-up to his death, according to a new report from Just the News.
Operation Fast and Furious was an Obama-era scandal where the ATF purposely allowed illegal gun purchases under the guise of tracking organized crime. The operation never resulted in the arrests of any organized crime leaders, and it became a national scandal when Terry was killed by a Fast and Furious firearm in 2010.
In a new development, Just the News reported Tuesday that it’s obtained Terry’s journal, which shows that he was tracking AK-47s in the leadup to his death.
“AK-47 in crate,” Terry wrote on one page about a silver SUV he was tracking. Just the News spoke to Terry’s brother, Kent Terry, who said that Brian had stopped a shipment of AK-47s from entering the country just a month before he was murdered. However, his supervisors told him to allow the weapons to cross the border, the brother said.
My brother deserves justice, the truth, and those responsible for fast and furious gun running held accountable! https://t.co/q7Uw1XUlOj
— Michelle Terry-Balogh (@MichelleBalogh3) September 8, 2026
“The final page shared with Just the News is not dated, but appears to show Brian Terry was looking for weapons that had traveled from Honduras through Guatemala and into Mexico, writing an incomplete sentence: ‘Determine how wpns are…’ He also wrote that he needed to seek an interdict ‘to reduce arms/criminal org’ for the Sinaloa cartel,” Just the News reported.
Kent Terry told Just the News that he didn’t know if his brother was tracking a larger scandal when he wrote those notes in his journal, or was just making daily notes. But the family still has questions about his death, he said.
Meanwhile, the ATF still doesn’t even know how many guns are still on the streets from the original Fast and Furious scandal.
The U.S. government reportedly lost 2,000 firearms during Operation Fast and Furious, of which only 710 were recovered as of February 2012.
In April 2023, Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., asked ATF Director Steven Dettelbach how many more have been recovered since then, and the ATF boss said he didn’t know.
Biggs said at the time that one of the Fast and Furious guns has recently been used in a crime. Biggs didn’t provide details of this crime, but said the ATF is now questioning the firearms dealer from which the gun emanated.
Ken Silva is the editor of Headline USA. Follow him at x.com/jd_cashless.
