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U.S. Rep. Gwen Moore says she was surprised by the lack of serious punishment for the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agents responsible for Operation Fearless -- the botched storefront sting run in Milwaukee in 2012.

Moore (D-Wis.) issued a statement in response to a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel investigative update that revealed the ATF gave four agents involved in the operation what is known as a "memorandum of caution" -- the most mild punishment for an agent. Veterans called it a "slap on the wrist."

Moore said in her statement: “I was surprised to learn of the seemingly light nature of the disciplinary action taken against those ATF special agents involved in Operation Fearless. I am not privy to the internal personnel matters of the Bureau, but I do think it is important to ensure that those responsible for any wrongdoings in the operation are held fully accountable. I continue to look forward to learning the results of the Department of Justice Inspector General’s investigation and I will continue to monitor this issue carefully.”

Members of both parties in Congress have called for accountability. The inspector general and Congress are doing their own investigations and the American Civil Liberties Union is reviewing the cases.

The ongoing Journal Sentinel investigation has uncovered deep flaws in ATF stings across the country — agents using people with mental disabilities to promote operations and then arresting them; allowing armed felons to leave their fake stores; attracting juveniles with free video games and alcohol; openly buying stolen goods, spurring burglaries in surrounding neighborhoods; and paying inflated prices for guns, prompting people to buy new guns and quickly sell them to agents for a profit.

In Milwaukee, the ATF storefront was burglarized, four of the wrong people were arrested and an agent's guns, including a machine gun, were stolen. The machine gun has not been recovered.

Laat month, a Florida man with a low IQ was acquitted by a jury after his attorney argued he was entrapped by agents, the Journa Sentinel reported Sunday.