The purchases would have happened with or without fast and furious. Not sure what your point is. The government has no ability to stop gun runners from purchasing guns unless they can prove they are gun runners. What a shocker, maybe they need to know what guns they are buying and where those guns end up. Fast & Furious is a normal idea for people to want to understand how guns move between our country and Mexico.
Total bull(*)(*)(*)(*), try again: Straw purchases are illegal, end of story, and your little dance ain't gonna work
the ATF "purposely allowed licensed firearms dealers to sell weapons to illegal straw buyers, hoping to track the guns to Mexican drug cartel leaders and arrest them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATF_gunwalking_scandal