Posted on 06/01/2022 6:24:10 PM PDT by bitt
The Texas gun store where teen school shooter Salvador Ramos got an AR-15-style rifle before his rampage was previously part of an ammunition smuggling case involving the Mexican drug cartel, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
In 2009, a businessman from Uvalde’s neighboring town of Eagle Pass was accused of trying to smuggle more than 10,000 rounds of ammunition into Mexico, ICE said.
The firepower was purchased at Oasis Outback LLC in Uvalde — the same gun shop where Ramos got one of the rifles found inside Robb Elementary School after he massacred 21 people there last week.
Businessman Fred Farhat, 48, the owner of Farhat’s Boots and Jeans, paid almost $6,000 cash for more than 10,000 rounds of .223 and 5.56 x 45 mm ammunition in three separate transactions in a three-hour period from Oasis Outback in 2009, authorities said.
“That’s very significant, and it’s close to the border, so you know where it’s going,” said Davy Aguilera, a retired agent with the US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms who previously led the ATF office in San Antonio, to the San Antonio Express News last week. “It’s obviously going to a bad guy to sell, transport or to use it. The general public is not going to buy that much.”
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Was Eric H0lder even remotely involved?
This will get buried by the media.
Is it too late to order a gun?
He didn’t have a driver’s license, right? What did he use for his NICS?
If I remember correctly, Aguilera was one of the ATF geniuses responsible for the Waco massacre...
I’ve been there many, many times. It’s hunter’s central for that whole region west of San Antonio. It’s a great sporting goods business.
That’s the question. I tried to use a US passport to purchase a shotgun and they said they needed ID with my address. The passport doesn’t have your address.
Unless the shooter got a state ID which is like a driver’s license but without a driving privilege then how did he get it?
According to the ATF at least one form of identification must have your photo, such as a driver’s or pilot’s license, a military ID and so forth.
His low IQ, felonious grandpa said he didn’t have one, but he didn’t know about the guns either.
This article says his ATF paper work matched his driver’s license. https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2022/05/24/suspect-info-heres-what-we-know-about-the-18-year-old-shooter-who-officials-say-killed-his-grandmother-14-students-and-1-teacher/
Okay, I am not aware of any law about buying and reselling ammo, or buying it for someone else. That said, if the shop is knowingly selling to the cartel, charge them if it is against the law. I would think that ammo going INTO Mexico is a Mexican problem, not an American one anyway.
Oasis is a fantastic store, probably the best outdoor shop within 100 miles. I bought a shotgun from them when I was in Uvalde for a hunting trip, fair pricing and they followed the law for my transaction. They have a restaurant on the property too. I hope the folks that run the place are able to weather the storm.
No.
“That’s the question. I tried to use a US passport to purchase a shotgun and they said they needed ID with my address. The passport doesn’t have your address.”
The passport is acceptable as ID if supplemented by another state-issued document containing an address such as voter registration, vehicle registration or hunting license.
They had discretion over those sales to the 18 year old demon. They did not have to sell. So I am not impressed
The plot thickens as we all knew it would!! Independent journalists WILL get to the bottom of this!!
Has it been determined that the murderer and/or his parents are legal U.S. residents ?
Dumb ATF. People in Vermont sometimes buy 10,ooo, 20,000 rounds just on a weekend for target ptractixcwe, n’ go back n buy more the next weekend. Dumb atf doesn’t know anyhting...duhhhh
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