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Kenneth Melson, the acting director of the US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives since 2009, was reassigned after admitting mistakes in a sting operation intended to prevent weapons from US stores reaching violent Mexican gangs.
A US Border Patrol agent died in a shootout in December 2010, and two guns found at the scene have been traced to the sting.
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