Posted on 05/17/2016 7:50:15 AM PDT by Iron Munro
I hear you, Fred, and agree. However,
Mexico is not the direction I’d go for improvement.
That’s odd I never missed him and i don’t think I will.
Well, you can have guns there in Mexico.... Once.
Same for ammo. Those Mexican Army boys who manned that checkpoint sure did right by me, and didn’t even want a bribe. Their thorough search helpfully located a loaded magazine that I had lost months before.
That’s all I’m going to say. Had a book on the seat beside me with a reverent photo of Zapata and Pancho Villa on the cover. I think it, and the rounds being .38 Super Auto saved me.
They even let me keep the loaded mag and drive away. A mile down the road I threw that radioactive thing out the window. So yes, the Mexican Army treated my innocent error with common sense and compassion that I would never get in DC or NYC.
Did he ACTUALLY move to Mexico (geographically) or is he making a pun about Mexico moving to America?
Because there are some places HERE that now look and feel like Mexico, not by the swarthy color and Latino swagger of the citizens, but the corruption and lack of care of the citizens, politicos and police.
what I mind is them posting like it makes any difference to them...it does not....they left....ran away if you will....they don't have any skin in the game anymore....whatever they say is meaningless because nothing affects them where they are....
again, they have no skin in the game...
I do assume though that they are getting a nice fat old Americano pension check from the taxpayers back here in the good ol USA....
maybe not all but I assume that most of these expats have left their families......
that tells me all I need to know about them....they left their families....
Pity ... I lost ‘em all in a boating accident ... really drunk up on a lake in Canada .... can’t even remember the name of the lake ... or even WHEN it happened !
I will never lose hope. Most of my people have been here since the beginning. They were at Valley Forge and Yorktown. One signed the Constitution. They fought for and against the Union. World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Desert Storm and the current wars. My son still serves, my grandson will shortly. I will not abandon the only hope for the whole world. God bless America. I will support her with my last breath.
The writter definitely does not get out much in Mexico, but there are areas where the Drug Cartels are kept out. It is where locals band together to keep them out. The writer correctly notes in the US you are not allowed to band together and self police. And the Cartels within the US have offices in DC. For example, if the EPA Cartel decides your pond is a wetland containing an endangered species, you have no recourse.
What is it about Mexicans and the Colt .38 Super cartridge? They seem to have nationalized it.
IMO it’s because most Colt 1911’s in that caliber are older generation models with the deep blue finish & higher quality of an earlier time, say 1950’s on back.
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Sounds like my family tree as well. There’s a few of us left.
He lives south of Guadalajara on the north side of Lake Chapala.
http://www.fredoneverything.net/00Uncle%20Fred’s%20Mexico/UFM%20Columns/MexLinks.shtml
Me neether ... or NIther .. or me too !!
Ain't supposed to ... but it does
I didn't realize nor understand SS until about 10 years before I retired ... by then I had payed in quite a bit .... a little late to start thinking idealistically about my money ... where it goes and where it (will be ) coming from
I'll venture for the most part they're older men, probably widowed or divorced and their "families" they "left behind" are thirty year olds plus, well ensconced in their OWN lives of work and mostly the trap of mortgage and wish THEY could go with Dad too ....
You should think these things through before replying
You are correct sir. I don't recall anyone asking me for my consent, to pay, or not pay into SS or Medicare. The government just took it. I despise politicians.
Type of firearms permitted[edit]
In regard to what type of firearms are permitted, Title II, Chapter I, Article 9 of the Federal Law of Firearms and Explosives states:
(translated) It may be kept or carried, under the terms and limitations established by this law, weapons of the following characteristics:[26]1.Semi-automatic handguns of caliber no greater than .380 (9mm Browning, 9mm Corto, 9mm Kurz, 9mm Short, and 9×17mm). Left excepted are calibers .38 Super and .38 commander, and also calibers 9mm. [Such as] Mauser, Luger, etc., as well as similar models of the same caliber of the excepted, from other brands.
2.Revolvers of calibers no greater than .38 Special, left excepted is caliber .357 magnum. Land tenure owners, common land owners and farmworkers outside urban zones, may keep and carry, upon registration, one weapon of those already mentioned, or a .22 caliber rifle, or a shotgun of any caliber, except those of a barrel length shorter than 25 inches (635mm) and of caliber greater than 12 gauge (.729" or 18.5 MM).
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