Well, in a word: YES
More to the point, the plan was for the Mexicans to submit firearms serial numbers of weapons they seized to the ATF for verification that they came from the US and thereby provide justification to further restrict access to firearms in the US.
The guns were not to be "planted" but rather to be used by the drug gangs and either picked up at the scenes of drug violence (wherein a dead/wounded drug gang member dropped the weapon) or in seized in raids of drug gang cache's.
“..the plan was for the Mexicans to submit firearms serial numbers of weapons they seized to the ATF for verification that they came from the US and thereby provide justification to further restrict access to firearms in the US. ...”
Effing BINGO. Right on the money.
Forget about the full-auto stuff they have coming up from South and Central America, right? The REAL problem is all those semi-auto rifles and evil capitalist gun owners in Ahh-MER-EEE-ka selling guns to peace-loving Speedy Gonzalez and his cartel pals.
These people are just sh*t...Why aren’t US Marshals dragging these scheissekopfs off to jail in chains?