Posted on 08/18/2021 6:36:19 PM PDT by rellimpank
In the last four years, Ioan Grillo traveled thousands of kilometers in crossings that took him from Mexico to the United States, Germany, Romania, Serbia, Bulgaria and Colombia, while following a trail of iron and blood. Beyond the multimillion-dollar figures and chilling statistics, the writer was looking for answers to an ethical dilemma.
Grillo asked an arms dealer in Bulgaria, “Are you worried that the weapons you sell, legally, may later fall into the hands of criminals or terrorists?" The man stared at him and said no.
The Mexican government recently filed a lawsuit against major U.S. arms manufacturers and distributors in federal court in Boston, arguing their negligent business practices have sparked bloodshed in Mexico by marketing to the country’s criminal underworld, “facilitating the unlawful trafficking of their guns to drug cartels.”
The complex world of arms trafficking and its intimate relationship with the rise of violence in countries like Mexico is the central theme of Grillo's book published earlier this year, "Blood Gun Money: How America Arms Gangs and Cartels." It's a comprehensive investigation that took Grillo around the world as he persecuted designers, manufacturers, distributors, traffickers and criminals united by a single product: weapons.
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Oh look. Operation Fast and Furious all over again .
If you ad up the number of killed and maimed Americans from drunk Mexicans, but noooooo…
Cartels have automatics. I have never met anyone who owned an automatic rifle and I am well past the half century mark.
I’d be interested to see a list of weapons seized in Mexico by who manufactured them. You can import anything into Mexico through their ports and China is their biggest supplier of the base chemicals for meth and designer drugs. China is also a big supplier of weapons and technical items like drones, chemical supplies and tools, etc. So, why pay a premium to buy an American gun at a high price and then risk bringing it into Mexico when it is infinitely easier to just order it from China and have it delivered to your door with no chance of interception. Oh, and Chinese weapons are cheap and reliable.
Or the same guns from F&F?
I’ve met maybe a half dozen. But I work at a range.
Calling Eric Holder (to account).
Maybe Mexico should increase its border security? Doesn’t seem so concerned though.
The author create a causal relationship when there isn't any.
Guns are old technology. Guns are available for money.
Making them even more illegal than they already are is a stupid sideshow that does not decrease violence.
It may very well increase violence by restricting guns to bad actors.
But, it is part of my job as a writer, and I have associated with military and cops for most of my life...
Somebody must have told the BATFE to start running guns to the cartels again.
Calling Eric Holder (to account).
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Not until we replace the Assistant Democrats.
US guns are expensive. The flow would be the other way.
“The Mexican government recently filed a lawsuit against major U.S. arms manufacturers and distributors in federal court in Boston, arguing their negligent business practices have sparked bloodshed in Mexico by marketing to the country’s criminal underworld, “facilitating the unlawful trafficking of their guns to drug cartels.”
And someone here should sue the Mexican government for trafficking people, drugs, and terrorists into the United States.
The open border allows for death and destruction to thrive on both sides of the border - enriching and empowering criminal crime syndicates.
The Cartels are arming up now that they know the US has a weak leader a a feckless military. So not to worry, they will be bringing those weapons back to the US in convoys of armored vehicles with heavy weapons mounted - as soon as they get the go ahead.
Well, there may be a few coming in from Kabul.
Full Auto M-4s for a ‘starter’, and then bigger.
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