U.S. Customs and Border Protection
A machine gun seized by U.S. Customs and
Border Protection is seen Friday at the Pharr-
Reynosa International Bridge.
How is that smuggling. It was on the back seat.
Their Wal-Marts have way better gun selections than in IL.
We can't even get a lousy 9mm sub-machine gun let alone a Browning 30 Cal. Machine Gun.
This would be perfect in our Dining Room.
That is an air cooled barrel in the picture.It does not match the description in article. Reporter laziness or Customs disinformation?
Do these people who write this crap ever heard of a Google search/images???.. it's AIR COOLED and a little easier to lug around
M1919A4, is a water-cooled, belt-fed machine gun...
the water would pour out of all them holes in the barrel? The writer of this piece, Jared Taylor, is a typical journeylist who doesn't know jack about weapons!
I dont think theres any evidence beyond appearance this weapon is a MG. A large number were converted to semi.
I wonder if the “Mexican gunmen” were in fact ATF, under Project Gunrunner.
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Mount that baby up in a stand, open bottle of whiskey, await good times.
Those weren’t no Mexican gunmen. Those were ATF agents!
Sure with they would have shown a water cooled Browning since that’s what they say they seized.
I’m gonna bet those Mexican gunmen spoke pretty good English and had jackets with BATFE on the back.
Julio Cesar Ramirez’s in a white 2006 Hummer H3 as he attempted enter the Pharr-Reynosa International Bridge, according to a criminal complaint.
This sounds more like he is working for the drug cartels based on he is driving a 2006 Hummer H3 which cost a boat load of money.
I don’t buy it. Semi-auto 1919a4’s are very common. I have one on an AA tripod that’s a blast to shoot. A full auto 1919a4 would be hard for them to come by in this country and it stands to reason that the cartels wouldn’t buy it outside the US to import it into the country, only to turn around and try to get it back to Mexico.
If it is a semi version and this guy isn’t an illegal alien then he didn’t commit any crime in possessing the gun. He should have kept his mouth shut about intending to smuggle it.
The ATF and border patrol don’t get the benefit of the doubt from me. They probably set this guy up.
Sorry to be so late. I was working at a gun store in San Antonio and almost the exact same thing happened. In our case it was a semi-auto M-2. We knew that if we let the 24 year old “buyer” and his Mexican National buddy take the weapon back home to Brownsville, that it would be rebuilt to full-auto a few days later in Mexico.
We called the BATFE and they scared the buyer out of taking his weapon home. Nobody wants the cartels to have any more weapons than they have now. If you live on the border you don’t need to give the bums a weapon they could use to take potshots across the Rio Grande.