How many illicit Barretts will $600K buy? Not many.
Think about it. A Barrett M82 will cost ~$10K out the door.
How much resale premium is required to make it worth smuggling thousands of miles into Mexico?
At a delivered price of $50K each, that's 12 rifles.
Drop in a bucket for cartel money…. Serious hardware being transferred to bad actors to be used against us.
Yet we alphabet agencies raiding parents homes for getting angry at their local school board leftists….
Remember this is just one gun store where the rifles were being purchased, I’ve read these rifles are being purchased at gun stores all over the place.
At a delivered price of $50K each, that’s 12 rifles.
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maybe fewer than that when you consider the prices of various add-ons for them, plus the ammunition.
Here’s a video that goes into more detail about the issue, multiple stores were used to purchase the rifles and how the rifles were transported to the border and smuggled across into Mexico.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqHBwxPKwCg&t=978s
Close, imho.
Good points, plus the backend.
So why are they buying ‘military-style’ weapons when they could buy pallet loads of real military weapons on the world market? I hear Afghanistan will offer them a bulk deal on brand new, only dropped once weapons. It’s not like they don’t have the money. This has a smell to it.