Posted on 08/17/2016 4:03:30 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA
MEXICO CITY – There's just one place in all of Mexico where you can legally buy a gun. It's tucked away in an anonymous building on an army base in the capital, staffed by soldiers.
Those who enter must surrender any cellphones, tablets or cameras, remove caps and pass through a metal detector. Weapons are kept in locked glass cases, unlike many of the 50,000-plus U.S. gun shops where used-gun racks on showroom floors allow easy access and clerks are happy to let you heft an unloaded firearm.
Mexico's constitution guarantees citizens' right to own a handgun and hunting rifles for self-defense and sport. Legally getting your hands on one, however, requires clearing a series of bureaucratic hurdles far stricter than in the United States and, for many, travelling great distances to reach the country's lone gun store.
In fact, most of Mexico's 120 million inhabitants probably don't even know about the Directorate of Arms and Munitions Sales — it is prohibited from advertising any of its goods, or the mere fact that it exists.
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It’s really, really hard to get a gun in Mexico!
Well, unless Obama is running guns to ya, that is.
Ahhh, the safety of Good Old Mexico!
What good is a constitutional right that you can’t exercise? In the meantime armed bandits of all flavors rule Mexico.
Mexicans can legally purchase...shotguns up to 12 gauge
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12 gauge seems to be the most popular gauge..love the 12 gauge.
Makes the 11 gauge look like a cap pistol.
Bump for reference.
What a crappy place Mexico is.
And they come up here waving their flag as though it is a great place.
Morons.
I suspect the wealthy and powerful have no trouble getting whatever they want.
I guess they have police or military credentials, probably totally valid ones.
Hey Moose...Rocko....help the judge find his checkbook
You should’ve turned on your sarcasm detector.
:D
This explains the low gun crime rate in Mexico, right?
An eleven gauge would be bigger. I have a ten gauge, bigger. How many balls the diameter of the bore made from one pound of lead determines gauge. 12 balls per pound=12 gauge.
I think he is quoting from a Jerry Seinfeld episode. The one where Kramer is suspected of being the serial killer and they get to ride in the back of a cop car.
The term “Mexican carry” came from peons carrying handguns in their waistbands.
It was easy to ditch the piece if the federales started sniffing around.
Their constitution may “guarantee” their right to own handguns for self-defense, but they knew if they got caught with even an empty holster they faced jail time or having to pay a hefty bribe.
hillary sees this as a plan for us. see, you have one gun store you can buy guns from. i love the 2nd amendment.
Pistols from .22 to .38, no military calibers, limited to 200
rounds of ammo per year.
Sure would like to see an honest accounting of what has gone
missing from Mexican Army and police armories.
Also, how many guns have come from Viet Nam by way of Nicauragua.
“Don’t make me use this. No, seriously, please - don’t make me use this. It will hurt both of us (you worse, of course).”
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