I have no doubt that this is part of a plan to attack the 2nd amendment rights of Americans.
However, are we going too quickly to one obvious possibility and ignoring another that we would be less quick to address?
What if Obama/Holder have some reason to favor/aid the drug cartels? What if power comes from the end of a gun, or what if money greases palms, or what if hundreds of medium transactions finance super-PACs, etc., etc.
Its not impossible that its “all of the above”.
The point is, O and Holder had started a drumbeat before this all came out, encouraging the Government of Mexico to file suit in American courts against US gun manufacturers. I remember it, and I was expecting it any day when this story broke and they were forced to back off.
What they did instead, to distract attention from it, was start a big push for new reporting regulations, ignoring the fact that gun dealers had reported this.
As for your point, I’ve seen this before. There was a case a few years ago when a south american general was on trial in his home country for running cocaine into the US. His defense was that he was working with DEA and they had agreed to send a load through so they could follow it and see all the connections.
Sounds like a great idea. They went on to run another dozen loads. So at what point does an investigation become a cover for a smuggling operation.
Stories about Fast and Furious tend to overlook its twin operation running guns into Honduras. Supposedly they were selling them to MS13, which is bad enough, but I have wondered if they were arming Zelaya’s partisans. This all took place about the time they were trying to force him back into power.