The stated goal of Gunwalking was to continue to track the firearms as they were transferred to higher-level traffickers and key figures in Mexican cartels, with the expectation that this would lead to their arrests and the dismantling of the cartels.
The tactic was questioned by including ATF field agents and cooperating licensed gun dealers. During this operation, the largest "gunwalking" probe, the ATF monitored the sale of about 2,000 firearms, of which only 710 were recovered as of February 2012[update].
As of October 2011, none of the targeted high-level cartel figures had been arrested.
Guns tracked by the ATF have been found at crime scenes on both sides of the Mexico–United States border, and the scene where United States Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was killed December 2010. Dissenting ATF agents came forward to Congress in response. Revelations of "gunwalking" led to controversy in both countries, and diplomatic relations were damaged.
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