do you want us to stop selling? oh no. continue to sell them. reporter: more than one gun shore panicked as boxes of assault rifles through off their shelves into trucks bound for mexico. i wanted to make sure none of the firearms sold per our conversation could or would end up south of the border or in the hands of the bad guys wrote the scots dale gun club. i m looking for reassures republicans the guns are not going south or in the wrong hands in response the atf lied, assuring dealers their guns would not see mexico. how many hundreds or thousands of weapons did you allow to be purchased, knowing they were going to mexico? the purchase was being done by a criminal organization. you facilitated it. you allowed it, did you not? reporter: newell authorized the operation. he believed sending guns south would expose the network to the smugglers transporters and
do you want us to stop selling? oh no. continue to sell them. reporter: more than one gun shore panicked as boxes of assault rifles through off their shelves into trucks bound for mexico. i wanted to make sure none of the firearms sold per our conversation could or would end up south of the border or in the hands of the bad guys wrote the scots dale gun club. i m looking for reassures republicans the guns are not going south or in the wrong hands in response the atf lied, assuring dealers their guns would not see mexico. how many hundreds or thousands of weapons did you allow to be purchased, knowing they were going to mexico? the purchase was being done by a criminal organization. you facilitated it. you allowed it, did you not? reporter: newell authorized the operation. he believed sending guns south would expose the network to the smugglers transporters and
do you want us to stop selling? oh no. continue to sell them. reporter: more than one gun shore panicked as boxes of assault rifles through off their shelves into trucks bound for mexico. i wanted to make sure none of the firearms sold per our conversation could or would end up south of the border or in the hands of the bad guys wrote the scots dale gun club. i m looking for reassures republicans the guns are not going south or in the wrong hands in response the atf lied, assuring dealers their guns would not see mexico. how many hundreds or thousands of weapons did you allow to be purchased, knowing they were going to mexico? the purchase was being done by a criminal organization. you facilitated it. you allowed it, did you not? reporter: newell authorized the operation. he believed sending guns south would expose the network to the smugglers transporters and