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'''Operation Fast and Furious''' was an [[Obama administration]] program, approved at the highest levels of the [[White House]],<ref>[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/17/AR2010121706598.html White House delayed rule meant to stop gun flow to Mexico], Sari Horwitz and James V. Grimaldi, ''[[Washington Post]]'', December 17, 2010</ref> authorizing a joint strike force of the  [[United States Treasury Department]] [[Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms]], and the [[U.S. Justice Department]] to sell [[guns used by Mexican drug gangs]] from the [[United States]] to [[drug cartels]], and other gangs in [[Mexico]]. One of the purposes of the operation was "to strengthen liberals' argument for [[gun control]]."<ref>[http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2012-07-11.html#read_more]</ref>

'''Operation Fast and Furious''' was an [[Obama administration]] program, approved at the highest levels of the [[White House]],<ref>[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/17/AR2010121706598.html White House delayed rule meant to stop gun flow to Mexico], Sari Horwitz and James V. Grimaldi, ''[[Washington Post]]'', December 17, 2010</ref> authorizing the illegal sale in the [[United States]] of high powered weapons including assault rifles the purchasers and intermediaries of Mexican [[drug cartel]]s.

 

A joint strike force of the  [[United States Treasury Department]] [[Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms]], and the [[U.S. Justice Department]] was organized and funded to sell the [[guns used by Mexican drug gangs]] for the purposes of strengthening liberals argument for the Obama administrations [[gun control]] agenda.<ref>[http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2012-07-11.html#read_more]</ref> Thousands were killed - and continue to be killed - mostly in Mexico, by these weapons.

Operation Fast and Furious developed into an enormous scandal and failure for the [[Obama administration]].  At least two U.S. border guards were killed by weapons allowed to "walk" in Operation Fast and Furious and thousands of deaths in Mexico's drug war.

Operation Fast and Furious developed into an enormous scandal and failure for the [[Obama administration]].  At least two U.S. border guards were killed by weapons allowed to "walk" in Operation Fast and Furious and thousands of deaths in Mexico's drug war.