 I don't know if it was him directly, but I mean, as the head of the administration, it would be him. He's the one that ordered it. At least have something to do with it. Obama also oversaw an operation called Fast and Furious to traffic firearms over the border of New Mexico directly into the hands of criminals, instructing gun store owners to break the law by selling firearms to suspected criminals. One of those guns was used to murder U.S. Border Patrol agent Brian Terry in 2010.