“The sting operation is becoming a major headache for the Justice Department, which oversees the ATF and prosecutors in Arizona who ran the sting that was aimed at tracking guns to Mexican cartel leaders in hopes of nabbing them.”
We’re talking about “nabbing” people who are already guilty of multiple crimes. How would giving them guns, even if you do know the source of the guns, help “nab” people who daily commit murder and sell drugs? I’m looking for the 25 words or less sales pitch the guy who came up with Gun Walker used to get management to buy into it. I see no mechanism where this gun running scheme would help bring down the narcos. Also, the cost; 10-25 million dollars. You’d think that for that kind of money we’d be seeing a huge string of arrests. Have there been any arrests where the primary evidence was supplied by the Gun Walker program?
I suspect that this was a scheme to prove that America was the source of the guns and that therefore, to be good neighbors with Mexico, Americans would have to give up their guns.
“I suspect that this was a scheme to prove that America was the source of the guns and that therefore, to be good neighbors with Mexico, Americans would have to give up their guns.”
And to arm marxist revolutionaries south of the border to overthrow democratic governments.