I am with you MW
I am not sure what the result was supposed to be.
Please can anyone who explain why the US gov’t smuggled guns into mexico?
I’ll join you two in the confused corner.
For one thing, providing more US purchased arms would up the number of traceable (to US civil sales) weapons available for mexican forces to capture (if they were not delivered to them in the first place).
The media constantly reports that the majority of confiscated arms are traced back to the US - without reporting that the real majority of confiscated arms are not traceable and therefore not likely from any US gun stores at all.
You can be sure that, had a whistleblower not given the alarm, news of weapons used to kill a BP agent had come from a Tucson civil sale would have made nationwide banner headlines.