Guilty?
Posted on 04/14/2009 7:10:01 PM PDT by rdl6989
MEXICO CITY -- A woman was arrested guarding an arsenal that included an anti-aircraft machine gun -- the first weapon of its kind seized in Mexico, police said today.
The arsenal belonged to a group linked to the powerful Beltran Leyva drug cartel, federal police coordinator Gen. Rodolfo Cruz said. It also included ammunition, five rifles, a grenade and part of a grenade launcher. Mexican drug cartels, battling a fierce crackdown by soldiers and federal police, have increasingly gotten hold of higher-powered weapons, even military-grade arms such as grenades and machine guns. That has left police -- particularly state and municipal forces -- grossly outgunned, and many officers have quit following attacks.
Cruz said the confiscated .50-caliber, anti-aircraft machine gun can fire 800 rounds per minute and is capable of penetrating armor from more than 5,000 feet (1,500 meters). Police on a routine patrol Monday found the gun fitted atop an SUV at a house in northern Sonora state.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
No doubt a Ma Duce.
This weapon was no doubt bought thru the gunshow loophole.
Check out the pix here:
It’s a Browning .30cal NOT A .50 cal !!!!!!
That aint no momma deuce.
What do you expect from the media
Had this been in Iraq or Afghanistan it would have been all over the Media....
I recommend 20mm
LoL!
arseholes
I believe our ‘officialdom’ is lying about the origin of these weapons . I will bet that almost all they are finding are being sold out of Mex Army stocks . Or out of other C.A. forces stocks . It is a conspiracy to try and say that the great majority are coming from America . More likely PRC
and Venezuela etc.
I retract my “Ma Duce” post based on the pic.
Sheesh! You can’t rely on the press any more! /s/
How does one point it at the sky on that tripod?
arseholes
5 rifles and a 1919 is an arsenal?
None of those Mags fit those rifles. This is pure propaganda.
True, the press is not to be believed.
Nah, It came straight from Wal Mart.
Ya,Ya I know, I’ve fired both, alot!
I posted BEFORE the pic.
See post #11.
See post #11 & #16.
no harm, no foul
Guilty?
Looks like the media is guilty of not doing basic research. That is no 50cal....it looks like a smattering of whatever they found with no thought if they go together.
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