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EyeSeeYou Posted 13 years ago
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Meaning of GUNWALKING ?
Does it mean "gun trafficking" ?
This is where I found the term:
This is where I found the term:
The /wiki/United_States_Bureau_of_Alcohol,_Tobacco,_Firearms_and_Explosives (ATF) ran a series of "gunwalking" /wiki/Sting_operation[2][3] between 2006[4] and 2011.[2][5] These operations were done under the umbrella of /wiki/Project_Gunrunner, a project intended to stem the flow of /wiki/Firearm into /wiki/Mexico by interdicting /wiki/Straw_purchase and gun traffickers within the United States.[6] "Gun walking" or "letting guns walk" was a tactic whereby the ATF "purposely allowed licensed firearms dealers to sell weapons to illegal straw buyers, hoping to track the guns to /wiki/Mexican_drug_cartel leaders."[7]
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You don't lie the definition given in the article? "Gun walking" . .
- You don't lie the definition given in the article?
- "Gun walking" .
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- " You could say that this is one special form of the broad term 'gun trafficking'.
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You don't lie the definition given in the article?
"Gun walking" . . . was a tactic whereby the ATF "purposely allowed licensed firearms dealers to sell weapons to illegal straw buyers, hoping to track the guns to Mexican drug cartel leaders."
You could say that this is one special form of the broad term 'gun traff
"Gun walking" . . . was a tactic whereby the ATF "purposely allowed licensed firearms dealers to sell weapons to illegal straw buyers, hoping to track the guns to Mexican drug cartel leaders."
You could say that this is one special form of the broad term 'gun traff
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