[Tijeras_Slim]

Perhaps they are trying to supply automatic weapons to the gangs, to stir the pot domestically. The PC crowd would wring their hands and call the violence and riots "a perfectly understandable reaction to (fill in the blank)"

Didn't a bunch of AK's filter into the barrio from the COSCO (Chinese Overseas Shipping Co.) a few years back?

[Redcloak]

As I recall, two shipping containers full of AKs were seized in Oakland. Who knows what didn't get seized. (These were real AKs, BTW; not the wannabes sold under the Norinco brand name.) The guns were allegedly headed for the gangs of L.A.. I also seem to recall that Senator ChiFi's hubby was involved.