But it lost track of more than 1, 000 firearms that the agency had allowed straw buyers to carry across the border, and found itself under fire when two of the lost weapons turned up at the scene of the killing of a U.S. Border Patrol agent.

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We all shouted, and the happiness at having found them again was already fraught with the pain of having lost them now forever, as the moon rising in the dark sky sent out only the reflections of the sun on its lakes and fields.

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