Operation Fast & Furious - What Didn't They Sell?

.50 cal sniper rifles? [Link]

“U. S. Border Patrol agents seized six assault rifles, one rocket launcher, a grenade launcher, and three packages of what appeared to be C-4 explosives Tuesday near the Rio Grande.” – complete with helpful picture, just in case you were wondering whether they might have just seized an artist’s portable carrying case, or something.  Mind you, this particular seized contraband may not have had anything to do with Operation Fast and Furious (certainly you can’t buy fully-loaded rocket launchers in gun stores.  At least, I hope) – but is it safe to bet that way?  After all, the ‘grenade components’ thing refers to this storyabout an American citizen smuggling grenade parts into Mexico; in case you were wondering, yeah, the ATF knew about him and let him go.  Last year**. The .50 caliber sniper rifle story?  Here you go.
The whole mess, in a nutshell?  Here and here and here and here and here: bottom line is, the US government massively screwed up by deliberately letting guns get run into Mexico – and into the waiting, eager hands of Mexican narco-terrorists.  The Mexican government is fuming: it’s their citizens getting shot, and the Ugly Americans didn’t clear any of this with them.  Gun rights organizations are fuming, too: they have suspicions about the ultimate goal of the Obama administration here, and there’s admittedly evidence that can be reasonably seen as backing them up on that.  And the center-right is fuming most of all: and that’s because in a just universe, starting Monday, Attorney General Eric Holder would be spending his working hours sitting at a House Government Oversight table hooked up to a polygraph machine and describing his activities, day by day.
To which I can only say what I have to say: these things take time, and Grassley/Issa aren’t going anywhere.  And they know who has to answer to this, in the end.