Mexico Sues U.S. Gun Manufacturers: is Obama behind Calderon’s back door attack on gun rights

coachisright.com ^ | April 29, 2011 | Doug Book , staff writer

[jmaroneps37]

Not content to pack off millions of miscreants, impoverished or labor-averse citizens to the welcoming, welfare bestowing arms of the United States government, Mexican President Felipe Calderon has decided to hold Americans responsible for his nation’s crime rate as well.

On November 2nd, 2010, Calderon retained the New York law firm of Reid, Collins and Tsai to sue American gun manufacturers and dealers for the reputed massive influx of weapons into the otherwise zephyr-swept, Shangri La of Mexico.

“We seized more than 90,000 weapons…I am talking like 50,000 assault weapons, AR 15 machine guns, more than 8,000 grenades and almost 10 million bullets.” “…The ones we are able to track, most of these are American weapons”, claimed El Presidente to CBS reporter Peter Greenberg.

“…American gun dealers don’t SELL machine guns or grenades seemed to have little effect on ……CBS’s desire to run the story. After all, hasn’t the Washington Post told us that “…Mexican drug cartels…snap up the military-style machine guns available in U.S. gun shops!”

Since 2008, most of the “mainstream” American media has breathlessly reported that 90% of the weapons seized by Mexican authorities from the nation’s most notorious homegrown criminal classes–drug dealers and politicians–had originated in the United States. That this statistic had been fed reporters by the nation’s number one gun grabbers and 2nd amendment haters, Michael Bloomberg and his Mayors Against Illegal Guns, mattered not one whit.

After all, the distinction between a press release and actual news is minimal when the source happens to be as liberal as the journalist.

“….STRATFOR determined that only about 12% of weapons seized in Mexico had originated in the U.S…..

“…..150,000 members of the Mexican military who “…defected to work for the drug cartels, bringing their American…firearms with them.”

[wastedyears]

They’re still there, and they’re still in use on firing ranges. Insignificant they may be, they still change hands. I remember walking into a gun in CT, and seeing two or three Class III firearms for sale.

So I guess that comes out to a 1:50,000 chance of seeing one for sale.

[oldenuff2no]

If it is your contention that we, the civilians of the USA, are contributing to the bad guys having automatic weapons in in Mexico, YOU ARE FULL OF CRAP!!!!!
The very very few class III weapons that are available in this country are very tightly controlled. Each and every one are inspected by serial number every year. One of those pesky federal law things.
Are you trying to tell us that we have some kind of underground loan system and they have to bring them back before the carriage turns back into a pumpkin???
Not going to happen. If one of those weapons ever got south of the border they would not be mailing it home for any reason. Read my tag line. I'm a retired Ranger, a college educated gun smith,I have sold thousands of firearms, and I still shoot comp. If I didn't know and follow all of the federal gun laws I would be in prison. In most states you will never get a permit to buy or possess a class III firearm. In states where you can buy them after extensive background checks and a huge fee, they are extremely tightly controlled bout before and after the sale. You keep trying to find a hole to wiggle through in this argument. The problem is that you are out of ammo. This whole idea of automatic firearms coming from the USA and going to Mexico is a lie. Those who perpetuate and spread this misinformation are liars.

[wastedyears]

How can you even construe that from what I first said? I know full well that the supply of full autos in America was limited from when Reagan signed FOPA in 1986. Odds are any full autos the Mexican gangs are getting are newer than that, and they aren’t American made.