Weapons Traffic: Editorial - ATF's Mexico gun problem

ATF's Mexico gun problem: ""Fast and Furious" is the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives' sting operation that allowed hundreds of weapons to get into the hands of Mexican drug cartels. It is also a pretty fair description of the reaction in Mexico to the possibility that a U.S. government operation contributed to the lethal mayhem south of the border. ...

The Washington-based public-interest group Center for Public Integrity has reported that 10 percent of the 2,000 weapons that ATF allowed gunrunners to purchase were recovered in Mexico. About 30 percent were recovered in the United States. Most ominously, the majority of those guns remain unaccounted for.

This nation should be doing what it can to halt, not abet, the flow of weapons into Mexico. A good starting point would be to accelerate the approval of a long-stalled rule to require border-state gun dealers to report multiple sales of long guns."