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So while the White House seeks to reduce gun trafficking into Mexico, its enforcement agency struggles with “limited resources” (.pdf) and even formulating a basic strategy (.pdf) regarding legal straw purchases fueling a deadly war. Thus, we get gun-walking schemes.

“The strategy says, for instance, that the U.S. must stop the illicit flow of weapons to criminal gangs,”wrote Steven Dudley, co-director of InSight, a monitoring group focused on organized crime in the Americas. “However, the Obama administration has not empowered its own law enforcement agencies to do this, and does not have the political will to change the law to make this a reality.”

Dudley points out the ATF “has the same number of agents it had in the 1970s, which amounts to about 700 inspectors to keep watch over 120,000 licensed firearms sellers.”

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