Critique Of Mike Detty s Guns Across The Border - 1286 Words

Book Critique of Mike Detty’s Guns Across the Border: How and Why the U.S. Government Smuggled Guns into Mexico Do you believe the United States of America is capable of smuggling guns into a foreign country? In the novel â€Å"Guns Across the Border: How and Why the U.S. Government Smuggled Guns into Mexico†, written by Mike Detty, will explain the U.S. problems with smuggling guns outside the borders. â€Å"Guns Across the Border: How and Why the U.S. Government Smuggled Guns into Mexico† is based off the notes and experiences from Mike Detty, a former confidential informant for â€Å"Operation Wide Receiver† and â€Å"Operation Fast and Furious†, and other agents who went through issues with the ATF (Detty, pg.3). This book is useful for scholars or students that studies under a governmental agency profession because it gives point of views from people that had experiences with the ATF. Mike Detty expressed his opinions about the ATF significantly well throughout the novel. The storyline is also based off the operations â€Å"Too Hot to Handle† and  "Castaway.†(Detty, pg.4) The Mexican gun smuggling cartel business started around the year of 2003 (Grillo, par. 2). The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) began to research and investigate the Mexican drug cartels (Detty, pg.3). The ATF started to use a tactic called â€Å"gunwalking†. This tactic ran a series of sting operations in order to arrest Mexican drug cartel leaders (Detty, pg.4). The citizens of Mexico were given the