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Posted on 04/23/2025 6:38:57 PM PDT by cuz1961
Two residents of Mexico were recently arrested in Colorado while allegedly transporting 180,000 rounds of large-caliber ammunition. ... ..
Both men inside the van - Caesar Ramon Martinez Solis, 41, and Humberto Ivan Amador Gavira, 24, both of Mexico - presented United States Visas as their forms of identification.
...Detectives asked to search the van. Martinez Solis, the driver, gave permission. Inside the cargo compartment, the detectives found approximately 150 boxes of .308-caliber ammunition and approximately 30 boxes of 7.62 ammunition. Each box was labeled as containing 1,000 rounds.
Neither man's documentation permitted them to be possession of weapons or ammunition, even for hunting or sporting purposes, according to the federal affidavit. ...The two men were subsequently interviewed by ICE agents and others from the Denver offices of the U.S. Homeland Security and U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives. Martinez Solis told them that he and his brother-in-law, Amador Gavira, entered the U.S. the day before. They traveled to Denver, bought the van there, then drove to Salt Lake City and purchased the ammunition from a store, as recounted in the affidavit.
Neither man's visas allowed them to transport ammunition or firearms across state lines.
Martinez Solis told investigators the ammunition was, to the best of his knowledge, destined for Pueblo.
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Just some good ole boys.
This is not good.
“We’ve got a long way to go and a short time to get there....”
Somebody needs research ammunition if they think .308 and 7.62 are “large caliber”
I wonder if we can buy that confiscated ammo before it is unnecessarily destroyed. . .
What’s the illegal part? Ammunition is not restricted in either state except by age which they were both over. They both had valid visas. I don’t think it’s against the law for an immigrant on a visa to possess ammunition. Maybe guns. Wonder what the charge was?
this is what Mike Glover has to say about this
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Prairie dog hunting.
One of the worst movies ever was that elephant sequel.
"...never meanin' no harm."
Wonder what cartel they worked for? It’s pretty obvious they weren’t transporting it from a source in Utah to a gun store in Pueblo. I was thinking they might be hired truckers, but it sounds like they bought the band themselves.
its stated in the text.
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” Neither man’s documentation permitted them to be possession of weapons or ammunition, even for hunting or sporting purposes, according to the federal affidavit”
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Yuk yuk.
The scary thing, who’s to say it was headed into Mexico. Just as plausible to think it’s being stashed away here against a day that is probably coming that we don’t want to think about.
yup
they said they wete takeing it to Pueblo NM
“Martinez Solis told investigators the ammunition was, to the best of his knowledge, destined for Pueblo”
glover said pueblo is packed with cartel.
also that 18000 doesnt lend itself to a bunch of bolt or gas fed rifles,,
more like to be linked into belts.
belt fed firearms would be a real bad day for a p.d. or swat team.
-150 boxes of .308-caliber ammunition and approximately 30 boxes of 7.62 ammunition-
.308-caliber ammunition is 7.62 ammunition, so I guess they had 180 boxes of .308/7.62 ammunition.
Probably Pueblo Colorado, which has fallen on pretty hard times and there’s a lot of drug use.
Pueblo, NM has only 100 or so residents.
It could be referring to 7.62x39 which is used in the AK line of rifles.
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