Its a big to-do about nothing.
They quote State Department memos as saying they are “aware” that the Pentagon is “aware” that everyone is “aware” that drug gangs are using old US military weapons (and Korean, and anything else) that they bought from old war zones in Guatemala, Nicaragua, Panama, where ever, then refurbished in shops set up in Oaxaca. They try to imply that the Pentagon is selling weapons to the gangs but in the end they are talking about twenty-five or thirty year old weapons from the wars of yesteryear, bought from Central America. Or bought from Central American militaries. Or the Mexican military, but they don’t go there.
Actually, I believe a lot of Zeta and mafia weaponry comes straight from the Mexican military, which they don’t talk about, so again, the article is about half bogus. And a lot of the drug gangs like to use AK-47s too, also widely available, but the article doesn’t go into that.
In any event, they are using machine guns, hand grenades, and rocket launchers that they did not buy at Walmart in Tucson.
Succinct. Thanks. Why in HAIL can’t the writer do that?
I took that as what the article was meant to say, but I believe it's a bit confusing to say the least. The article is disjointed and poorly written IMHO, but it seems that the author's point is that the guns used by the cartels are not coming from US gun shops or gun shows as the media and the Obama administration wants gullible Americans to believe.
The article came to me via email from the NSSF (National Shooting Sports Foundation), a firearms manufacturers and marketers organization that I was once associated with. Although some parts of the original article are not clear as to what the author's purpose for writing it may have been, I can't imagine that firearms industry org endorsing any article that could be seen as detrimental to the best interests of it members.
Sounds like the Spooks are trying to save the Feds bacon...
Actually, it's quite important.
Our government is engaged in a purposeful campaign to encourage the liberal media to denounce law-abiding gun owners and dealers in an attempt to continue infringing our right to keep and bear arms. Our government is waging war on its people. I sure hope they don't win, as unpatriotic as that might sound.