Project Gunwalker: ATF Weapons Smuggled Into Mexico, Possibly Used In Border Agents Killing

ATF management was allowing potentially hundreds of semiautomatic firearms to be walked across the Mexican border in order to pad statistics used to further budget and power objectives.

Mexican authorities were kept in the dark, and protests that they should be informed were overridden, first by the Phoenix ATF office, and ultimately by higher-ups in Washington, DC.

A gun used in this operation was involved in a December 2010 incident in which a Border Patrol agent was killed.

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