Posted on 10/04/2010 5:47:48 PM PDT by MamaDearest
EL CENTRO, Calif. (CN) - Federal prosecutors charged two 21-year-old men with trying to buy grenade launchers, 40mm grenades and an M-4 rifle and export them to Mexico. Yoahjan Lara Flores, of Heber, Calif., and Arturo Lara, of El Centro, were arrested last week and pleaded not guilty.
Lara Flores also was charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm. He was convicted in 2009 of importing marijuana and was on supervised release when he was arrested, the U.S. Attorney's Office said.
Mexico has complained - to little effect - that many of the guns used in the country mass murders in Ciudad Juarez and elsewhere are imported from the United States. Some 30,000 people have died in Mexico since 2007 in a continuing battle for control of the country's drug market.
Mexican officials, including the president, have complained that the vast majority of the drugs are not consumed in Mexico, but that the country serves as a "trampoline" to send the drugs to the United States.
The smuggling of guns from the United States to Mexico has received far less press coverage than the smuggling of drugs the other way.
Mexicans killing Mexicans...
Ah yes, and these would be the grenade launchers purchased legally from local gun stores I suppose.
They were two “Californians”, doncha know.
So, according to this article, all we have to do to stop the violence on the borders it to kill all the druggies. Then there will be nobody to buy those illegal drugs. Simple solution.
Pinheads.
I usually buy my grenade launchers at Wal-Mart.
The headline is a bold faced lie. They were not caught smuggling a grenade launcher to Mexico. They were caught trying to buy one. They were never in possession of one, as though that can be done on US soil so easily. This is just pure liberal propaganda that American is loose on illegal firearms.
Purchased at the corner rod and gun shop? Yeah, right!
How come Mexicans get to buy what Americans can not buy?
No it says that the gun dealers didn’t sell them weapons this time, they arrested them. Then it goes on to complain about those grenades that are being sold at gun shows and taken to Mexico.
The a hole reporter who is stupid, still has not come to the realization that the drug gangs are all over the US.
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