Sherman, set the Wayback Machine for the year 2009...

...when men were men, ATF agents were heroes, people were buying the bullshit about American guns flooding poor Mexico (without U.S. government help, that is), and SOMETHING HAD TO BE DONE!!!

Success on the front lines of a government blitz on gunrunners supplying Mexican drug cartels with Houston weaponry hinges on logging heavy miles and knocking on countless doors. Dozens of agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives — sent here from around the country — are needed to follow what ATF acting director Kenneth Melson described as a “massive number of investigative leads.”

Hee.

Thank you, David and Mike.