[Desron13]

"I don't recall ever having a case involving really large loads where the defendants were armed..."

Where you ever provably caught them armed...

[TKDietz]

I didn't catch them. The police did. They pull them over and find the dope. If there are guns they find those too, and you can bet they charge them whenever they find weapons because often the weapons charges are more serious than the underlying drug charges. In my state you can have hundreds of pounds of weed and be facing only a maximum of 30 ears in prison, but have gun too and you are facing life. Whether we are talking federal law or state laws, being in possession of firearms along with large amounts of drugs will increase the possible penalties exponentially.