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Mexican detained with anti-aircraft machine gun
AP on SFGate.com ^
| 4/14/09
| E. Eduardo Castillo - ap
Posted on 04/14/2009 4:30:53 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AP) -- Mexican authorities arrested a woman guarding an arsenal that included the first anti-aircraft machine gun seized in Mexico, police said Tuesday, as the army announced the capture of an alleged top drug cartel lieutenant.
The arsenal belonged to a group linked to the powerful Beltran-Leyva drug cartel, federal police coordinator Gen. Rodolfo Cruz said. It also included ammunition, five rifles, a grenade and part of a grenade launcher.
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Cruz said the confiscated .50-caliber, anti-aircraft machine gun can fire 800 rounds per minute and is capable of penetrating armor from more than 5,000 feet (1,500 meters). Police on a routine patrol Monday found the gun fitted atop an SUV at a house in northern Sonora state.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Mexico
KEYWORDS: antiaircraft; beltranleyva; detained; drugcartel; drugcartels; machinegun; mexican; mexico; narcoterror; terrorism; warnextdoor
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To: NormsRevenge
A .50-caliber on your SUV roof could lift “road rage” to a new level!
To: NormsRevenge
Cruz said the confiscated .50-caliber, anti-aircraft machine gun can fire 800 rounds per minute and is capable of penetrating armor from more than 5,000 feet.Yeah, I've seen those in Sam's Club next to the paper towels, obviously they buy them there and smuggle them across the border.
To: NormsRevenge
I guess it was one of those guns bought in the USA using the Gun Show Loop Hole and smuggled into Mexico!!
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posted on
04/14/2009 4:34:23 PM PDT
by
carcraft
(Pray for our Country)
To: NormsRevenge
Oh, and I'm quite certain this anti-aircraft gun was smuggled across the border, probably from El Paso. Just ask anyone in the corrupt MSM!
/s
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posted on
04/14/2009 4:34:31 PM PDT
by
Obadiah
(Party - my house - on December 22, 2012!)
To: the_Watchman
I used to think I’d like to have a megaphone attached to the outside of my vehicle, to blast idiot drivers. I gave up on that years ago, but with the fools talking on their cell phones and driving like they’re riding with someone not driving the car, I just might actually mount one on the passenger door!
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posted on
04/14/2009 4:35:32 PM PDT
by
MHGinTN
(Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
To: Snickering Hound
I saw one at Wal-Mart a little pricey though.
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posted on
04/14/2009 4:35:36 PM PDT
by
omega4179
(boycott government run entities)
To: the_Watchman
I've seen them on flatbeds before....
... but a SUV?
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posted on
04/14/2009 4:37:42 PM PDT
by
TeleStraightShooter
(His Excellency Barack Hussein Obama, Head of Government, Duce of Fascism,and Destroyer of Capitalism)
To: Snickering Hound
In fact, if you buy one at any Sam’s Club in Tejas in the month of Abril, you get a free sombrero and a coupon for a Texican whopper at Burger King.
To: omega4179
Spendy to shoot too. About $4.00 a round. Let’s see; $4.00/rd X 800/min = $3200.00 just to shoot cans.
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posted on
04/14/2009 4:39:13 PM PDT
by
oneolcop
(Lead, Follow or Get the hell out of the way!)
To: NormsRevenge; GulfBreeze; rellimpank; AH_LiveRight; BGHater; nbhunt; La Lydia; jafojeffsurf; ...
Ping!!!!
If you want on, or off this S. Texas/Mexico ping list, please FReepMail me.
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posted on
04/14/2009 4:39:22 PM PDT
by
SwinneySwitch
(Mexico - beyond your expectations.)
To: NormsRevenge
“Mexican detained with anti-aircraft machine gun”
I didn’t know we were detaining Mexicans with anti-aircraft machine guns. We should have started that a long time ago and I hope we keep doing so.
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posted on
04/14/2009 4:40:03 PM PDT
by
freedumb2003
(Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks.)
To: oneolcop
I remember when it was $1 a round and nothing was chambered for it, now .308 is $1 a round
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posted on
04/14/2009 4:40:16 PM PDT
by
omega4179
(boycott government run entities)
To: NormsRevenge
I tried to pick up one of these at our local Gun Show last weekend but they were all sold out before I got there. They probably got shipped right to Mexico.
Bummer...
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posted on
04/14/2009 4:42:44 PM PDT
by
Gritty
(Bottom line: Anti-gunners would rather see you dead than armed - David Codrea)
To: NormsRevenge
I suppose the rats will say that was bought in the US.
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posted on
04/14/2009 4:44:09 PM PDT
by
nomad
To: All
I've seen this report on Fox News.com where they describe a .50 cal machine gun. But if the “anti-aircraft” gun they confiscated was the one shown in the picture, then they got it wrong. The picture shows a .30 cal Browning machine gun. An anti-aircraft gun for WWI, but not by today's standards.
To: Snickering Hound; Liberty Valance
Even Sam's Club is out of anti-aircraft guns these days. I just hate to think that our anti-aircraft guns are going to Mexico.
And I don't know where you live, but a lot the Sam's I know have their parking lots filled with license plates from Nuevo Leon and Tamaulipas as well as Texas.
It jest ain't right, the Mezzicans is buying all our anty-aircraft machine guns. They should be a law agin' it! (Sarcasm off)
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posted on
04/14/2009 4:46:48 PM PDT
by
Brucifer
(Proud member of the Double Secret Reloading Underground.)
To: Snickering Hound
"next to the paper towels"hehe!
To: NormsRevenge
They must be concept weapons because the San Francisco Chronicle did not release any pictures.
Or maybe they were to scary?
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posted on
04/14/2009 4:55:40 PM PDT
by
Vendome
To: Vendome
Pictures of the actual “cache” linked on Drudge. Girl is sort of cute - then there are maybe 5 rifles and 350 mags.
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