gc70,
the motivation for gunwalking has been revealed, as if it were not already obvious from the design of the program.
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Another reason it appears the passage of more gun control was the goal all along is found in e-mails between Mark Chait, ATF’s assistant director of field operations, and William Newell, special agent in charge in Phoenix during Fast and Furious. In one such e-mail, sent during July 2010, Chait asked Newell to pay special attention to multiple long-gun sales at gun stores because the ATF was, at that time, already “looking at anecdotal cases to support a demand letter on long-gun multiple sales.”
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If you're having trouble hunting down favorable anecdotes, go create them!
That's Fast and Furious in a nutshell.