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Largest weapons cache in years seized in Laredo
AP via Houston Chronicle ^
| June 2, 2010, 2:20PM
| CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN
Posted on 06/02/2010 1:58:59 PM PDT by a fool in paradise
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To: a fool in paradise
I see, American guns are doing the job the Mexican military “won’t” do. LOL
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posted on
06/02/2010 2:23:45 PM PDT
by
McGavin999
(I'm sorry, your race card is overdrawn and no further charges can be accepted)
To: wolfcreek
Vast majority of weapons seized in mexico have no serial numbers so they can't be traced. I'd venture to guess that many, if not most, come from chavez by way of columbian cartels. Also many full autos, grenades and rocket launchers come from the mexican military.
I'd like to know how many of those traced to the US were actually military weapons produced in the US and sold or given to the mexican military.
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posted on
06/02/2010 2:27:02 PM PDT
by
Eagles6
( Typical White Guy: Christian, Constitutionalist, Heterosexual, Redneck.)
To: wastedyears
“American citizens cannot own brand-new full-auto rifles, so I doubt theyre of American manufacture.”
Americans can and do own and manufacture automatic weapons, silencers, cannons, ect. Sometimes you need a license, sometimes not.
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posted on
06/02/2010 2:28:56 PM PDT
by
PilotDave
(No, really, you just can't make this stuff up!!!)
To: a fool in paradise
This is too long of an article for the suspects not to be named. I would wager that they were in the U.S. illegal and purchased the firearms with fake identification.
To: a fool in paradise; Travis McGee
I call B.S.
Ping to you Travis. Sounds like one of your story lines.
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posted on
06/02/2010 2:31:48 PM PDT
by
IYAS9YAS
(Liberal Logic: Mandatory health insurance is constitutional - enforcing immigration law is not.)
To: a fool in paradise
Probably a gun show purchase.
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posted on
06/02/2010 2:36:17 PM PDT
by
count-your-change
(You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
To: a fool in paradise
"Two Joe Blows aren't going to buy a bunch of weapons and it stops there,"Will be interesting to note if they turn out to be illegal Jose Blows
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posted on
06/02/2010 2:37:01 PM PDT
by
capydick
(''Life's tough.......it's even tougher if you're stupid.'')
To: a fool in paradise
Such an empty story with so few details.
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posted on
06/02/2010 2:37:34 PM PDT
by
Repeal The 17th
(Don't blame me. I voted for Jefferson Davis.)
To: capydick
Brokeback Mountain was movie about two Joe Blows.
To: a fool in paradise
If these are *real* assault rifles, and not just semi-auto clones of them, I for one would like to know where they are coming from. And where they were going to. It’s about as likely they were headed to US destinations, since no one could buy them legally here anyway. Not since the 1986 Firearms Owners Protection Act. (It was a good bill, right up until some hoplophobe added a poorly worded amendment, literally at the last minute).
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posted on
06/02/2010 2:39:25 PM PDT
by
El Gato
("The second amendment is the reset button of the US constitution"-Doug McKay)
To: wolfcreek
He doesn’t have to. He already has them listed as issued to his government.
To: OldMissileer
I am now so skeptical that this does not pass the smell test. There are no facts at all in the article. Only opinions. Not even what direction the vehicle was traveling in.
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posted on
06/02/2010 2:43:17 PM PDT
by
Hillbillary
(I know how to deal with Communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
To: a fool in paradise
And as soon as these are proven to be South American AK-47s brought in from Venezuela, the story will vanish...
Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
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posted on
06/02/2010 2:44:28 PM PDT
by
The Comedian
(Evil can only succeed if good men don't point at it and laugh.)
To: PilotDave
Americans can and do own and manufacture automatic weapons, silencers, cannons, ect. Not automatic weapons made since 1986. I sort of doubt these were that old. Or that expensive either. I'll bet they did not say "Colt" or "FNC" either. Maybe Chinese clones. But the question remains, were they headed to Mexico, or from Mexico to the Drug gangs US based branches?
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posted on
06/02/2010 2:44:32 PM PDT
by
El Gato
("The second amendment is the reset button of the US constitution"-Doug McKay)
To: Ronaldus Magnus
I would wager that they were in the U.S. illegal and purchased the firearms with fake identification. Only if they were semi-automatics. You can't buy full autos made since 1986, due to the Firearms Owners Protection Act, which banned newly made machine guns for private ownership.
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posted on
06/02/2010 2:47:13 PM PDT
by
El Gato
("The second amendment is the reset button of the US constitution"-Doug McKay)
To: El Gato
Or on their way to domestic jihad camps?
To: McGavin999
Alright you! Stop interjecting logic into this strawman argument.:)
Remember the first law of liberalism, what's good for the goose isn't necessarily good for the gander.
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posted on
06/02/2010 2:49:16 PM PDT
by
Sudetenland
(Slow to anger but terrible in vengence...such is the character of the American people.)
To: The Comedian
And as soon as these are proven to be South American AK-47s brought in from Venezuela, the story will vanish... They could be Chinese, Iranian, or Singapore (among others) made clones of M-16s. But the AK's would be a better choice for illiterate peons that the drug gangs use as muscle (for the most part). The AK was designed for Illiterate peansants. Russian ones to be sure.
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posted on
06/02/2010 2:49:52 PM PDT
by
El Gato
("The second amendment is the reset button of the US constitution"-Doug McKay)
To: Paladin2
and slightly more than one mag per gun??? Yea right.
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posted on
06/02/2010 2:52:34 PM PDT
by
mad_as_he$$
(Don't go chasing waterfalls.....)
To: a fool in paradise
Or on their way to domestic jihad camps? Another good possibility.
I have very baad feeling about all this. I'm not that far from the border, and will be considerably closer come January.. I think. Of course it's the Texas portion of the border. They have to get through the Tejano belt before they get to where I'm at now. Some of the Tejanos are not all that fond of, to quote one, "Those dammed Mexicans". She really shocked me when she said that, since she's darker and more "Indio" appearing than most Mexican citizens. But she doesn't mince words. :)
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posted on
06/02/2010 2:53:06 PM PDT
by
El Gato
("The second amendment is the reset button of the US constitution"-Doug McKay)
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