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« District Ct decision in Kachalsky | Main | Eric Holder's position on Gunwalker »

Good analysis of Operation Gunwalker

Posted by David Hardy · 7 September 2011 04:01 PM

Here. I agree with the author. The more we look into it, it appears that the object of sending guns to the Sinaloa Cartel was to ... send guns to the Sinaloa Cartel. Since they lost track of the guns as soon as they crossed the border, the shipments couldn't have yielded any intelligence or evidence. The only info that could be obtained were that guns were being recovered in Mexico that traced to American dealers. Added benefit: if anyone asked just how many of those came directly from dealers, as opposed to having been legally sold long ago, stolen, and then shipped, you have salted the mine with 2,000 that will in fact trace directly to a dealer sale. It would also drive down the average "time to crime" figure.

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DirtCrashr | September 7, 2011 4:42 PM | Reply

Alternatively they *might* have thought that their Sinaloa Cartel MOLE inside the corrupt Mexican Government would help them track the weapons - if they had such a person. Corruption talking to Corruption is usually how it works.

David McCleary | September 7, 2011 5:18 PM | Reply

I think it was also used as a tool for more "gun control" here.

deadcenter | September 7, 2011 9:07 PM | Reply

I don't think they cared if they made it to the cartel or not. I think all they wanted was more guns directly traceable to American dealers to show up at Mexican crime scenes. Then, when the Mexican government started howling about the flood of American crime guns out administration could respond with legislation and/or executive orders, and/or whatever methods ATF and other federal agencies have for enacting draconian regulations could trot out the regs they would have drafted and had waiting for the right opportunity.

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