'Project Gunwalker'

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A journalist's guide to 'Project Gunwalker'
February 2nd, 2011 1:45 pm ET



The following is a summary and time line of articles appearing on the Sipsey Street Irregulars blog and Gun Rights Examiner, reflecting original reporting on the developing "Project Gunwalker" story by Mike Vanderboegh and myself. That's the purposely ironic name I assigned it, a parody of the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco, Firearms and Explosive's "Project Gunrunner," and it refers to allegations by whistleblowing ATF insiders that:

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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Already being discussed, searching for "gunwalker" would have turned up this thread.

http://forum.pafoa.org/national-11/1...alker-atf.html