[dragnet2]

At least 122 firearms from a botched U.S. undercover operation have been found at crime scenes in Mexico or intercepted en route to drug cartels there, according to a Republican congressional report being issued on Tuesday.

Their investigators say at least 122 firearms bought by suspected gun traffickers were found at Mexican crime scenes

[umgud]

geez, this is from Rooters, must be series.

[Red Badger]

Why isn’t Mexico’s government screaming bloody murder?
They should outraged and rightly so......................

[EagleUSA]

That the guns were part of an “undercover” Washington operation is not in doubt. The reason for it is. As is who was really behind it, and what their real purpose was.

Think about the history of this administration and the numerous thugs involved.

[facedown]

...powerful .50 caliber rifles...

As opposed to weak .50 caliber rifles?

[Nachum]

The list, ping

Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list

http://www.nachumlist.com/gunrunner.htm

[AAABEST]

Mexican authorities found AK-47 assault rifles, powerful .50 caliber rifles and other weapons in late 2009 that were later linked to the U.S. sting operation to trace weapons going across the border to Mexico...

Oh good - Fed.gov was selling Barrett 50s to criminals and drug cartels. Many among the ATF wouldn't want law abiding Americans them, but it's okay for them to give them away to Mexican drug dealers.

I wonder if anyone will bother asking how the BATFags intended to recover these weapons from the criminals once the supposed "tracing operation" (yeah right) was completed.

The answer is they didn't intend to recover them. Nor did they have any reasonable expectation of even tracing them.

[Malone LaVeigh]

The supposed purpose of this program was to track these guns and disrupt the criminal network that supplied them to the cartels. Now that these guns have turned up at crime scenes, I guess that they've been tracked about as far as they can go, unless the Mexican authorities decide to recycle them back to the criminals again.
So, has the gun running network been disrupted?

[MattinNJ]

Bump for later reading

[TigersEye]

The ATF has said that there are still over 1,400 guns unaccounted for in Mexico, there were between 200 and a 1,000 guns “walked” to Honduras and new info from a Tampa ATF agent saying that guns went to other Central American countries. That is a lot of guns and every time some show up at the scene of a murder/shootout there will be new press about it. Especially if more LE agents are murdered with them. Especially if Hezbollah in Mexico gets a hold of some and murders some Americans with them.

This story has the potential to re-surface afresh for a decade with all those arms out there.

[MestaMachine]

FOR REFERENCE:

DAVID CODREA'S PROJECT GUNWALKER

A Journalist's guide to 'Project Gunwalker'-Part One

A Journalist's Guide to 'Project Gunwalker'-Part Two

A Journalist's Guide to 'Project Gunwalker'-Part Three

A Journalist's Guide to 'Project Gunwalker'-Part Four

[little jeremiah]

“Botched”? Nope, it did what they wanted it to. The only “botching” are the whistleblowers.

[Nachoman]

The ATF did remember to plant the GPS tracking devices in the guns, didn’t they?

/s (as if its needed)