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To: kellynla
“Over the two years leading up to his arrest last May, he sold more than 700 weapons of the kind currently sought by drug dealers in Mexico, including 515 AK-47 rifles and one .50 caliber rifle that can penetrate an engine block or bulletproof glass, the ATF said.

Gee, a gun dealer, with a store and everything, sold 700 intermediate power carbines over two years. Who'd a thunk it. I bet every purchaser passed the instant background check. But of "of the type sought", is pure BS. Why would "drug dealers" want semi-auto clones of AKs, when they could just as easily smuggle full auto, real AKs, bought for less money?

Now the .50 might be something a drug gang might want, but notice there is no evidence that any of those 700 weapons or the .50 actually went to Mexico. Of course even if some did, that's not the fault of the dealer who made a sale *approved* by the government.

47 posted on 03/10/2009 10:58:47 PM PDT by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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To: El Gato

I can’t imagine a Mara toting a rifle that weighs over half what he does.


51 posted on 03/11/2009 7:57:35 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (Te odeo, interfice te cochleare)
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To: El Gato

And if the agent knows he made such sales, why in the hell didn’t he bust the buyers/resalers?


64 posted on 03/11/2009 3:28:18 PM PDT by devistate one four (Impatiently waiting for the next tea party! Tet '68)
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