Posted on 03/04/2009 10:28:42 AM PST by atomic_dog
You don't have to go that far south. When the civil wars in Central America ended in the early '90s all of the rebels - FMLN guys with their former ARVN and ES M16s, FDN guys with their Egyptian and Chinese AKs, Guatemalans with whatever they had, were all supposed to turn their weapons in to their respective governments. The guerrillas where broke peasants and those rifles were the most valuable things they owned. Want to guess what portion of them were turned in? A few of these guns turned up in Chiapas, Mexico in 1994 but most of them as still sloshing around Latin America looking for a home.
Gun control works as well in Latin America as it does here. The more stringent the bans the greater the effort exerted to get around them.
Ping!
Ayers is almost single-handedly responsible for the subversion and destruction of the US public educational system.
That's not someone to underestimate.
“It seems Mexicans have a rich heritage of firearms ownership prior to the ban in 1968. Despite the laws against owning them, they ignore it.”
Of course they ignore the law. Their entire culture exists on ignoring the law. That’s why they have no respect for ours.
As for where Mexico is getting guns, they are trade partners with Iraq and China. I wouldn’t be surprised to find that Mrs. Blum’s (diane fienstien)gun import business isn’t supplying some of them. He supplied some for the Iraq war.
Oh....the irony.
That don't matter. It's the thought that counts. All that matters is that the sheep are scared to death of everything, and that the messiah's jack boots prefer no effective opposiiton.
Actually it was the Port of Oakland in 1996. The name of the ship was the Empress Phoenix.
Newsmax has the story from 2006 but I can’t find it o the Oakland Trib or SF Chron sites.
http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/2/28/114741.shtml?s=et
I found this one sentence from the NewsMax article noteworthy..."It was the largest seizure of fully operational automatic weapons in the history of U.S. law enforcement."
Very enlightening read.
****”Klashnikov’s (ostensibly destined for street gangs)”
I’m a news junkie, but I guess I missed that one. I’ll have to do a search to see if that story is still around.
Were specific gangs or demographics mentioned at the time? ***
I remember it. It was under the Clinton administration. All the gun magazines and Gun Week had the story.
Ping!
If you want on, or off this S. Texas/Mexico ping list, please FReepMail me.
***I’m a news junkie, but I guess I missed that one***
Were you around when the Treasury department raided a secret factory in So-Cal and found them making full auto sub machine guns without a license for shipment to Latin America?
It happened about the same day that Robert Kennedy got shot, 1968.
Remember when some Central American military officers tried to sell twenty thousand full auto submachine guns to American mobsters (undercover agents) back in the 1970’s?
Lots more going on than we realize!
I would guess the the National Firearms Act of 1934 exceeded that amount of seizures.
***“It seems Mexicans have a rich heritage of firearms ownership prior to the ban in 1968.***
Wasn’t this in 1956? I remember reading of a Texas rancher buying lots of Ruger .22 pistols and Winchester .30/30’s in the US to trade in Mexico for old antique Colt Peacemakers that were supposed to be turned in to the Mexican Govt.
Yeah, I could get a stamp here also even though I am in CA(northern CA, the citidal of conservatism in CA)but who can afford a 1936 Thompson that is completely worn out anyway!
Thanks for your posts.
Needless to say, the major media isn't bothering to tell the masses about all this.
Their bias is criminal.
That was my feeling when I looked at what was for sale. It was probably "ok" quality the day it was manufactured. Something I might give $400 to purchase new today if prices weren't off the wall due to regulations. It was certainly not worth $14,000 in its well worn condition.
I would really like an M-14. Select fire or demilled into a semi-auto. Too bad the "policy" is to destroy perfectly good rifles. A Springfield National Match M1A or a Fulton Armory variant would be a nice addition to the collection.
***Needless to say, the major media isn’t bothering to tell the masses about all this.
Their bias is criminal. ****
Remember in the 1990’s when Clinton banned the import of Chinese rifles and ammo? The Feds raided a warehouse and carted away boxcar loads of ammo as illegal. The news media really played it up with videos of the box cars that were confiscated!
Then someone looked at the head stamps on the ammo. Uh-Uho. Legal Russian ammo. they had to give it back. No mention from the MSM.
“Translated this means,”We don’t think we can push a bill through yet, but as soon as the fake attempt on the President’s life is planned and carried out we will be able to ban anything we want!”.
Look for it soon. Either that or they are trying to make things so miserable for the public that some nut case will try it on their own.”
NAIL ON HEAD.
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