**Please don’t tell me the BATFE is supplying brand new full auto .50 BMGs to drug cartels! **
OK.
Would you believe... the State Dept?
http://www.elpasotimes.com/communities/ci_18465182
"Under the Direct Commercial Sales program, the U.S. State Department regulates and licenses businesses to sell weapons and defense services and training for export. Last year, according to U.S. statistics, the program was used to provide Mexico $416.5 million worth of weapons and equipment, including military-grade weaponry." "The program is different from the U.S. Foreign Military Sales program, which operates on a government-to-government basis.""From the intel, it appears that a company was set up in Mexico to purchase weapons through the U.S. Direct Commercial Sales program, and that the company may have had a direct link to the Zetas."