Lots of questions on this one.
-Where did he get a handgun in Mexico? (Legally, that is).
-By “Vet” do they mean a U.S. veteran, a Mexican Army veteran, or are they talking about a veterinarian?
-You would think someone with military service would have had enough practical experience with firearms to know not to wave a gun around like a jackwagon. ALWAYS TREAT A GUN AS IF IT WERE LOADED.
The last.
Dunno - where do people from Chicago get them?
I believe it is illegal to possess so much as a bullet in Mexico and that the country has one legal gun shop. Hence, there is no violent crime, of course.
Something tells me that alcohol was involve. In which case, all training is out the window,
what kind of weapon was it? Jimenez Arms? I know the CZ52 is not drop safe...
-- My guess would be that he was a former conscript in the EM. I know a guy who spent 12 months lugging around an old G91. He got really good at taking it apart and putting it back together. He spent most of the last six months of his "service" AWOL, working in his father's tire shop and studying for his CCNA.
-- According to my EM veteran colleague, they don't get a lot of weapons training. He he got to fire his rifle exactly once, for "qualification". That was the only time he was issued any ammo - 10 rounds. He once threw a dummy hand grenade and he got to see mortars and machine guns being fired but was never allowed to touch one himself. I can see someone putting in a year in the Ejercito Méxicano and not learning basic firearms safety.