Talk:Operation Wide Receiver

EDIT: Original doc stated no charges, however, the AP story cited in source #3 states nine were charged, and 2 plead guilty.

No source that the guns in Operation Wide Receiver ever made it to Mexico. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.12.74.131 (talk) 04:09, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

needs work
This needs work for a lot of reasons. Possibly one of the most important is that one of the sources cited, defending the Bush administration, is an editorial written by Katie Pavlich, who is a conservative political commentator and columnist. In other words, her job and the job of the cite is to advance a point of view rather than report factual information. Her column is used as evidence that claims regarding guns crossing the border are false, but she does not even source that info in her column. Maybe I'll try to work on this, because it could be an important piece of history. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hazydan (talk • contribs) 19:52, 15 October 2011 (UTC)

Actually, having done some more reading, there were a number of operations similar to this, fast and furious, etc between 2006 and 2011...there should probably be a new article covering all of them. maybe I'll work on that instead... Hazydan (talk) 22:25, 15 October 2011 (UTC)


 * It would be nice if you could give this article some work. There's a lot that still needs to be covered here. We would greatly appreciate it. I haven't had enough time as I wish I had to get this thing going. And, there's not a lot of (credible) info out there, so the work should be meticulous, unbiased, and carefully cited. In fact, you can check Project Gunrunner, which is the main project of all the operatives, like Operation Fast and Furious and this one as well. Any contribution would be useful, thanks! ComputerJA (talk) 00:38, 16 October 2011 (UTC)


 * Agreed..Operation Fast and Furious doesn't look too great either actually (it's basically just a list of everything bad that happened)..how about a new article called ATF gunwalking scandal or something similar, that covers all gunwalking from 2006 in detail? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hazydan (talk • contribs) 04:14, 16 October 2011 (UTC)


 * Sounds good to me. As long as we redirect the articles of the OFF and OWR into it and make sections in the ATF gunwalking scandal regarding these two operations, to avoid any confusion. One article would make it a lot easier for people to have easy access to it and contribute to the growth of the article much faster. Good idea. ComputerJA (talk) 04:27, 16 October 2011 (UTC)