Posted on 05/30/2024 6:25:13 AM PDT by Sam77
Nothing to see here.
US Border Patrol agents seized two backpacks filled with guns earlier this month near the US Canadian border.
The suspects fled back into Canada before they were captured.
How many others were able to pass freely into the US under Joe Biden?
(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...
More guns less crime. Thank God the 2nd Amendment is becoming “less” infringed and hopefully “not” infringed soon. The current SCOTUS gets it.
Why sneak guns into the U.S.? You can just buy whatever you want at any gun show or online, no questions asked.
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Gun smuggling is exactly what will happen if the Demoncrats succeed in confiscating law abiding citizens arms ... criminals will always have access to the weapons they want.
Is that Rick Moranis?
Weird story.
Maybe they were antique Webley revolvers, worth a lot of money in the USA?
The article does not reveal anything about the alleged gun smugglers. I have to presume the motive was commercial (to sell the firearms rather than equip a secret army of terrorists), and the guns were stolen from a shop or police arsenal, or during shipment. Mighty convenient that the feds caught the smugglers red-handed, but they somehow slipped away without being id’ed, and left $40k worth of merchandise.
Wouldn’t handguns fetch more $$$ in Canada than the US? Seems nuts to bring coals to Newcastle.
Lol, too funny! 😁
Wei4d, b3cause i thought everyone co ing across th3 border were all retired Sunday school teachers and community organizers
https://www.americanprogress.org/article/frequently-asked-questions-gun-trafficking/
Is international gun trafficking also a problem?
Yes. The biggest recipients of U.S. guns are Canada and Mexico. From 2014 to 2019, there were more than 11,000 firearms recovered in Canada that originated in the United States. Tragically, some firearms used in Canada’s worst mass shooting—perpetrated in Nova Scotia in April 2020—were acquired in Maine and later smuggled into Canada.15 And, from 2014 to 2019, more than 70,000 U.S. guns were recovered in Mexico.16 However, the number of recovered and traced firearms could represent only a small portion of the large number of firearms that are trafficked across the U.S.-Mexico border every year. A 2013 study found that, between 2010 and 2012, close to 213,000 firearms were purchased annually in the United States and subsequently trafficked to Mexico.17 In fact, the Mexican government has sued American manufacturers for allegedly facilitating and marketing the sale of firearms to criminal groups in Mexico.18
U.S.-sourced guns are also frequently trafficked to other parts of the world. From 2014 to 2019, more than 15,000 guns that originated in the United States were recovered in connection with crimes in Central America, particularly in Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras.19 During the same period, more than 6,000 U.S. firearms were recovered in the Caribbean, mainly in Jamaica and the Bahamas.20 U.S. firearms are also a concern for South American nations. While ATF does not publicize trace data regarding crime guns recovered in South America, making it difficult to ascertain the scope of the problem in that part of the world, the federal police of Brazil reported that the United States is the biggest source of foreign firearms in the country and that most of these weapons are handguns and assault rifles.21 Firearms purchased in the United States have also been used by drug traffickers in Colombia and have even reached Chile, the southernmost nation on the continent.22
Why would you assume that? Illegal guns in Canada would sell for a much higher price so why run the risk of crossing the border? It would be like smuggling fentanyl into Mexico. Given the number of terrorists that surely crossed our southern border that is exactly where I think the guns were going.
US Border Patrol agents seized two backpacks.
Feds still looking for the missing 16,000 pounds of missing explosives from a train car in Tennessee.
Open border cause no harm it’s all about cheap labor and votes huh.
Was it really so hard for Hoft to write “They were smuggling guns FROM the USA INTO Canada”? As it’s written, you cannot tell what was going on.
But 1) it would be stupid to smuggle guns from Canada into the USA (hard to acquire in Canada but easy to buy in the USA), 2) they fled back to Canada, and 3) they abandoned their backpacks of guns in the USA. Add it all up and they were smuggling guns into Canada.
Americans know their rights under the Constitution. That is why Prohibition was a failure.
The same will go for guns. Difference is if the government bans guns, then smugglers will start bringing in full auto firearms.
How Canada Devolved into a Managerial State
BRUCE PARDY MAY 30, 2024
Our mistake, over these centuries of reform, was that we did not go far enough.
We did not take power away from institutions to rule over us. Instead, we just moved the powers around.
Today, as in the days of kings, the law is based upon the authority of those who govern, not upon the consent of the governed.
https://brownstone.org/#:~:text=How%20Canada%20Devolved,of%20the%20governed.
Its actually quite odd. Guns are much harder to come by in Canada thus making them much more expensive there.
There is more to this story.
“Why would you assume that?”
Because:
1) It is the simplest option. I don’t preclude that terrorists, gangstas, and generic criminals will end up with most of the guns. I just think it more likely that the sales will be through the Chicago gang network rather than one big shipment to a coordinated terrorist group.
2) If there were any evidence of it being linked to terrorists, the feds would have taken credit already, and Biden would be telling us he lost his son Beau in a related gunbattle.
The other parts: we are saying the same thing.
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