I believe they WERE talking about Fast and Furious. I think they are so smug and arrogant, believing themselves to be so much smarter than everyone else, that they would be able to be quiet on gun control while manufacturing this whole "crisis" in Mexico. They thought they would blow the whole thing open and force gun control through this entirely trumped up scenario they created. The idiots never realized that the Mexicans weren't going to help them a bit, and they didn't count on getting caught. They should all hang.