The only intention of the ATF and the politico at large, is to suspend the Constitutional rights of the citizenry. Anyone sitting idly by, thinking 'strongly worded letters" are the answer - gets what is deserved...
Any first year CJ major or person with two adjoining brain cells could have figured out that once those guns got across the border there would be no way to track them until they turned up at a crime scene. Murder with a F&F gun was part of the equation all along. The purpose of F&F was solely to reinforce the administrations flawed allegations about the source of cartel weapons and provide an excuse for more regulation on this side of the border. Nothing about this fiasco of an end-run had anything to do with taking down a cartel, as if trafficking tons of narcotics and the murders of thousands wasn't enough already.