One of the problems I have with the gun control theory as a stand alone is they would have to expose themselves and what they have done in order to use it for gun control. We saw this in Houston with Carter’s Country. Idiots went after Carter’s Country and exposed themselves and what they were doing.
For it to be used for gun control, there had to be a plan for the weapons to be used in this country, then during the chaos go for gun control. This way they would then have the support of the majority of the people that something has to be done to stop the violence.
The meme of American bought guns going south to arm the cartels and being responsible for violence on both sides of the border was becoming a regular mantra in the media.
That the ATF had already tried to pump up the data (in appearance) by presenting the few traced weapons as if they were the whole sample, rather than a fraction of the recovered arms in Mexico and in the US, had been exposed.
It would not be the first time evidence had been doctored, and by having dealers sell firearms to obvious and known straw buyers, and then be sold from there, it appears that the desire was for those arms to go across the border so they could be recovered from crime scenes later.
These were fully functional firearms, not ones which had been tampered with to make them unreliable.
Had this been a 'sting', the traffic would have been interdicted, the arms confiscated, and the traffickers arrested, or the Mexican authorities notified so they could interdict the movement of the arms.
I seriously think this was an effort to increase the numbers of weapons recovered from crime scenes in Mexico and along the US border, which had been 'legally' purchased in the US, even though the purchases probably would not have passed muster otherwise (without BATFE interventionon behalf of the purchasers).
Recall, also, that Obama attempted to placate the Brady Bunch with the statement that he was 'working on gun control under the radar', and that that statement coincides with the timing of the Fast and Furious operation.
Sorry, that is just too pat to not be heavily investigated.
Do so, and then, let the chips fall where they may.