For those with short memories, “Fast and Furious,” aka Project Gunwalker, was an ATF plot to allow unlawful straw purchases of firearms from US gun shops, in order to — equally unlawful — traffick them to criminals in Mexico. Supposedly the project was ended when the ATF super-pros “lost track” of most of the firearms. The reality is that they had no intention of “tracking” them in the first place, as the real political plan was to have more US weapons — remember, purchased from ordinary gun stores — turn up in Mexican crime in order to “justify” more gun control here.

Mexican officials were not amused.

Neither was I.

Up until now, the only prosecution at all related to Gunwalker was that of the killers of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, who was murdered using one of the Gunwalker firearms. Today, I learned that we are finally seeing trafficking prosecutions.

In Mexico.

Mexico charges 7 in ‘Fast and Furious’ weapons trafficking, including top officials
Mexican prosecutors said Sunday they have charged seven people, including former top officials, in the “Fast and Furious” weapons trafficking scandal.

The December 2010 murder of Border Patrol agent Brian Terry exposed the bungled “Fast and Furious” investigation, in which agents from the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives allowed criminals to buy guns with the intention of tracking the weapons.

But the agency lost most of the guns, including two that were found at the scene of Terry’s death in southern Arizona. The U.S. government has heavily pursued prosecution of the men involved in the killing.

Since they are including officials in this, and are looking for at least one extradition from the US, one can only hope the scope of their prosecution will expand to include some American officials. I’m looking at you, Holder.

Mexicans; still doing the jobs Americans won’t.