Posted on 03/12/2009 3:18:10 PM PDT by Flavius
now if im not f'/n dreaming the cartels is rock and rolling with fully auto toys
so someone have any data on this
can’t cough up links at the moment but most eeeeeeeeeeeeeeevil stuff gets converted.
can’t support or refute the 90% figure.
not really looking for accuracy in media
but just wadnering people have filtered info
your better of trusting an blog posted by a crack head on server in Guatemala then MSM garbage
i get it but Russian and Chinese crap can be so easily imported fully auto
why bother with all the US conversion kits
The “gun control expert” is Tom Diaz, of the Violence Policy Center - a virulently anti-gun organization.
Not exactly an objective source.
Oh, and the full-autos and RPGs that the savages are playing with have exactly zero to do with US acquistions (other than acquisition of funds with which to bribe Mexican soldiers to give them. This is a canard, an excuse.
Besides, even IF these animals were getting guns from the US, why is it the fault or responsibility of the average American? It isn’t, but it is a convenient excuse to ban an entire class of guns.
I just don’t buy it.
Why would the wealthy cartels buy more expensive peicemeal weapons here and sneak them across the border when they can get cheaper weapons in bulk off container ships through cartel controlled Mexican ports.
wasn't Waters caught up in some snafu a few years back?
Apparently it can’t. If the COMBLOC stuff were so readily available they would be using it.
They use the Korean grenades that the Mexican army acquires.
Free market apparently says “U.S. Stuff”.
Agreed
last answer predicated on that 90% figure being even slightly true.
The author of the article has an agenda and the truth is not relevant.
“Reforma reported that for at least the last ten years the Russian mafia was supplying Mexican drug traffickers with radars, automatic weapons, grenade launchers, and small submersibles in exchange for cocaine, amphetamines, and heroin. It cited a 1996 sting operation in which undercover DEA agents posing as Russian mafia members sold Carillo Fuentes operatives 300 AK-47s and ammunition in Costa Rica.”
no data but this raises the question nobody’s asking...
If gun control is the answer, why doesn’t the Mexican gov’t. simply pass tougher gun control measures themselves?
My neighbors inability to control his bowels is not sufficient reason to mandate that I wear a diaper.
Tom Diaz, supposedly a former NRA member and competitive shooter who went over to the "Dark Side", long ago.
He supports banning .50 cals and wrote "Making a Killing" a book that blames manufactures for crimes committed with guns. He was on the staff of the House committee that wrote and passed the original "Ugly Gun Ban", working for Chuckles Schummer but thought it didn't go nearly far enough.
The posters that have written that the cartels can get what ever they want much easier that coming to the US buying legally at retail prices when they could and probably are buying in other countries and bringing them into Mexico in quantity with out the risk of having them found an lost while transporting at much lower prices.
Those that have been stopped or found trying to cross north to south may be black market arms for concerned citizens in Mexico that have very restrictive laws inhibiting their access to buy arms to protect their families or business.
This dumb monkey doesn’t have the slighest idea what she is talking about. She’s an insult to her race.
bttt
The Movie “Lord of War” had a scene which showed a warehouse with several thousand AK-47s all neatly lined up. The director said it was easier (and cheaper) to go out and buy those rifles and then re-sell them than it was to build fakes.
Of course he filmed the movie in South Africa. Perhaps he could have saved even more money by filming in Veracruz...
Good analysis.
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