Looks like guns to Mexico was only part of the ATF plan.
http://www.examiner.com/gun-rights-...icate-atf-fbi-allowed-indiana-crime-gun-sales
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has acknowledged an Indiana dealers cooperation in conducting straw purchases at the direction of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Exclusive documents obtained by Gun Rights Examiner show the dealer cooperated with ATF by selling guns to straw purchasers, and that bureau management later asserted these guns were being traced to crimes.
http://www.examiner.com/gun-rights-...icate-atf-fbi-allowed-indiana-crime-gun-sales