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Border officials confiscate 92K rounds of high-caliber ammo on tour bus bound for Mexico
UPI ^ | 8/21/24 | Clyde Hughes

Posted on 08/21/2024 5:55:38 PM PDT by Libloather

Aug. 21 (UPI) -- U.S. Customs and Border Protection said on Wednesday that its officers at the El Paso port of entry confiscated 92,000 rounds of large-caliber ammunition leaving the United States over the weekend.

The seized ammunition nearly tripled the amount of ammunition agents seized in outward bound inspections at the El Paso field office over the past three fiscal years combined, CBP said.

Border Patrol said the ammunition was found on a commercial bus leaving the United States for Mexico at the Bridge of America port of entry in El Paso.

"CBP's primary mission is to inspect all goods and people entering the U.S. from abroad but the agency will also perform outbound inspections as part of our overall enforcement portfolio," said Hector Mancha, CBP El Paso director of field operations, in a statement.

"The magnitude of this seizure is impactful. Had this ammunition fallen into the hands of traditional criminal organizations the impact could have been devastating."

A Mexico tour bus returning to the country was selected for inspection by the CBP's Anti-Terrorism Contraband Enforcement Team.

"CBP officers noted that the two bus drivers depicted nervous behavior during the routine inspection," CBP said. "The bus was secured and CBP officers initiated their exam. During a search of the cargo bay, they discovered multiple 27-gallon plastic storage totes that seemed very heavy."

Officers found boxes of ammunition when they further examined the totes. The drivers, both Mexican nationals, were detained and turned over to Homeland Security Investigations for possible smuggling charges.

One of the 16 passengers on the bus was found to be in the United States illegally and processed as such. The other 15 passengers returned to Mexico on another bus.

(Excerpt) Read more at upi.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Hobbies; Travel
KEYWORDS: ammo; ammunition; banglist; border; contraband; mexico; smuggling; tour
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A three hour tour, they said...
1 posted on 08/21/2024 5:55:38 PM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather

Those rounds are made to pierce armored pinatas.


2 posted on 08/21/2024 5:57:05 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (“History doesn’t repeat itself but it often rhymes” - Possibly Mark Twain.)
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To: Libloather

We catch a greater percentage of contraband on the way out than we do on the way in.


3 posted on 08/21/2024 5:58:56 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: Libloather

How high?
Is it a secret?


4 posted on 08/21/2024 6:00:11 PM PDT by Rightwing Conspiratr1 (homonews)
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To: Libloather

92k. That’s all?


5 posted on 08/21/2024 6:01:40 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: rktman

“92k. That’s all?”

That’s poungs not rounds. That’s 12,000 pounds more than a legal 18 wheeler load of stuff. That was one loaded bus. Where’d they put it?


6 posted on 08/21/2024 6:07:25 PM PDT by JeanLM
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult

Needed for the new version of the War Wagon....

https://www.amazon.com/War-Wagon-POSTER-Movie-Inches/dp/B00KK6LPK8

About the movie:
A war wagon, takes 4 horses to pull and weighs about 1100 lbs.
It’s seen mounted on a turret on the top rear of the stagecoach and is fired by Frank Pierce (Bruce Cabot). Colt 1865 Gatling Gun - . 44 Rimfire.


7 posted on 08/21/2024 6:11:46 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: Libloather

“CBP officers noted that the two bus drivers depicted nervous behavior during the routine inspection,”

Sweating bullets is not your best look while smuggling ammo.


8 posted on 08/21/2024 6:25:45 PM PDT by Chewbarkah
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To: JeanLM

No, the headline and the lead sentence both specify rounds. Without knowing what the ammunition was, it’s not possible to calculate the weight. 92,000 rounds of 9mm would weigh around 1,600 pounds.


9 posted on 08/21/2024 6:28:00 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: Rightwing Conspiratr1

Maybe the reporter thinks “high-caliber” is anything over .22 short.


10 posted on 08/21/2024 6:32:52 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: Rightwing Conspiratr1
You know, the most deadliest .45 Colt high-caliber ammo that will shoot a hole in an engine block at 500 yards.

VERY High-Caliber.

11 posted on 08/21/2024 6:34:38 PM PDT by OKSooner (The government killed Frank Zappa with an isotope.)
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To: BenLurkin

I wonder what they are considering as “high-caliber.”


12 posted on 08/21/2024 6:39:44 PM PDT by JParris
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To: JParris

I don’t get it. Why didn’t they turn them over to the Mexicans? The bullets are paid for. Allow the bus to proceed across the border and alert the Federales. Mexican justice is not our department.

Mexico doesn’t help us at the border but we do their jobs.


13 posted on 08/21/2024 6:49:47 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Possible for the chinese armies assembling in mexico...or
other n’ere do wells...


14 posted on 08/21/2024 7:00:35 PM PDT by skinny old man (Still lurking and posting after all these years(27 yrs ?)(more ?)(seems like more...))
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To: Libloather

“Large caliber”? Like 375 H&H Magnums?


15 posted on 08/21/2024 7:01:36 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo )
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To: JParris

Colt 45 Malt Liquor.


16 posted on 08/21/2024 7:03:44 PM PDT by sevlex
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To: All
Some actual info:

"Eleven totes held 33,000 rounds of 7.62 mm ammunition. The other 15 totes contained 59,900 rounds of .223 caliber rifle ammunition for a total of 92,900 rounds of ammo, authorities stated.

LINK

So, Not 'large' caliber, or 'high caliber' it is Small caliber and Medium caliber.

Be nice if the Border patrol and the United Press and other media organizations would hire someone who knows a little about such things to write their reports.

17 posted on 08/21/2024 7:14:05 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: BenLurkin

I saw a reporter expressing incredulity that anyone would need a three hundred eighty caliber weapon


18 posted on 08/21/2024 7:14:28 PM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: Libloather

Oooooh
“High caliber”

How high is that?
.50 BMG or 20mm ?


19 posted on 08/21/2024 7:21:34 PM PDT by doorgunner69 (I don't know what he said at the end of that sentence. i don't think he knows what he said either)
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To: doorgunner69

92K rounds of either would probably bottom out a bus.


20 posted on 08/21/2024 7:25:35 PM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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