As I have frequently remarked here, the biggest mystery in the Gunwalker scandal is exactly what the operation was intended to accomplish. It’s the fact that ATF never tried to track any of the guns they were trafficking into Mexico (which rules out any obvious legitimate purpose) that turns Gunwalker from merely a horrible screw-up and cover-up into something more sinister.
Thus, it’s worthwhile to note that the ATF actually did try to track some of the guns. Out of thousands of guns illegally trafficked to Mexican drug cartels, the ATF tracked two of them.
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