[The Magical Mischief Tour]

Project Gun Walker, also known by the case name “Fast and Furious” and “Operation Gunrunner,” was a plan in which the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives would deliberately allow guns into the hands of Mexican drug cartels, in order to “see where all the guns ended up, build a big case, and take down a cartel,”

Actually it was a deliberate act to allow guns into the hands of the cartels in order for the BATF to blame US gun shops. And declare war in gun sales, gun owners and the 2 A altogether, anyone who thinks otherwise is an idiot...

[tallyhoe]

Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms. Waco alert! Burn all toddlers first police. Also caught red handed selling guns to the Mexican cartels!

[Joe Brower]

The whole Gunwalker mess does make it quite apparent that some of today's biggest lawbreakers are wearing federal badges. Nothing new, really.

A sign that one's society has an illness.

[The KG9 Kid]

"... “see where all the guns ended up, build a big case, and take down a cartel,”

You mean, BATFE was concocting an operation to basically conquer all of Mexico?

The narco-corruption goes from top to bottom in Mexico, from the lowest border-crossing peon with a gunny sack full of black tar heroin strapped to her back all the way up to El Presidente of Mexico and all his army generals. Everybody else gets their heads sawn off and tossed in the street.

Who in the hell did BATFE think they were going to serve an arrest warrant on down in Mexico, and under what authority?

Disband the BATFE. Reduce them to a minor bureau in the US Treasury and tell them to shut up and do nothing but licking tax stamps and slapping them on the caps of booze bottles.

[Oldpuppymax]

Welcome to the party, Mr. Hayward!

[paul51]

“pad the statistics about Mexican ‘crime guns’ coming from the U.S. civilian market.” This would “strengthen the BATFE’s argument for more funding and power… and gun control advocates’ calls for more restrictive gun laws.”

BINGO!. If they haven't been able to 'bring the cartel down' for drugs, how were they going to do it for guns?

[KarlInOhio]

Why is it whenever the BATF's budget is up for debate Americans wind up being shot? Whether it was Operation Showtime ending up with the Waco massacre or this current farce, the bullets start flying when it is time to show how vital the BATF is.

[SIDENET]

Exactly how was this boneheaded plan supposed to work, anyway?

"Boneheaded"?

Evil is more like it.

Facilitating the smuggling of weapons into Mexico to manufacture evidence which would be used by THE REGIME to bolster its case to re-enact some kind of assault weapons ban is much worse than boneheaded.

Helping to get innocent people killed to push an agenda aimed at depriving American citizens of 2nd Amendment rights is much worse than boneheaded.

[rockinqsranch]

“....and you’d need the starship Enterprise to track the position of thousands of weapons over long distances.”

“Unintended consequences” are usually caused by voids in the brains of morons, idiots, or Liberals....redundant I guess, but seems to be a common thread in the fabric of this administrations binding.

Whom once were the Jesters of the court are now the court.

[ViLaLuz]

Mexican cartels making payoffs to the highest levels in our government and with this incident it was exposed.

[BCR #226]

I’m sorry but the BATFE explanation of “we’ll give the cartels guns to make them vulnerable for prosecution” reminds me of the old saying... “F#$king for virginity”.

I’m rather insulted that DOJ, the White House and ATF leadership thinks that we, the general public, are that stupid to believe that line.