So, the failure of the operation to "prove" that vast numbers of criminals are using the internet to get all manner or firearms delivered to their door without the encumbrance of having to obey federal law means that the anti's can't/won't use the results to further their agenda.
And the thinking part of the country recognizes that if the illegal purchaser does nothing to intimate that they are an illegal purchaser, then they will be able to buy a gun, so, the Fed failure means nothing, in that regard, either.
Personally, I'd rather see the Fed waste their time, and my tax money on things like this, rather than on "allowing" (some say "requiring") guns to
walk into Mexico, in the hope of tracing them, once they do... at least one death resulted from that fiasco. (Fast & Furious turned out to be half-fast, and stupid
)