Posted on 12/06/2025 6:11:51 AM PST by DFG
Two men were arrested after authorities found 30 handguns allegedly destined for Mexico hidden in a spare tire during an inspection on the southern border in Texas, officials said Friday.
The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) seized the weapons this week at the Anzalduas Port of Entry in Mission, a town on the Texas-Mexico border, the agency said.
DPS special agents searched a 2015 Chevy pickup as part of a multi-agency task force with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) around 9:30 a.m. Wednesday.
"During the inspection, special agents discovered 30 handguns, including a 5.7-caliber FN Herstal, 60 magazines and one speed loader concealed inside the vehicle’s spare tire," a DPS news release states.
According to a DPS official, the 5.7-caliber FN Herstal is known as a "cop-killer" weapon because the ammunition can pierce body armor.
Investigators later discovered one of the handguns was reported stolen out of Austin, authorities said. The firearms were allegedly destined for Guanajuato in Mexico, where gun ownership is heavily restricted.
The driver, Luis Torres Mujica, 30, a resident of Guanajuato, and his passenger, Jesse Joe Camacho, 28, of McAllen, Texas, were arrested and charged with theft of property and firearm smuggling, a second-degree felony.
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I’m surprised that politicians haven’t been more active in trying to ban 5.7x28 based on the scary sounding “cop killer” reputation. The cartridge has only been around for about 30 years, how many cops have been killed by it?
This shows what gun smuggling will look like if the Demoncrats eventually are able to disarm law abiding citizens. “When guns are outlawed only outlaws will have guns”.
The 5.7 armor piercing ammo is hard to get, but the big advantage is lower recoil and high capacity. Calling something a “cop killer” is just hype by scare-mongerers.
If that’s all the arsenal they had they’re just wannabes.
Hey smuggler dudes, I’m pretty sure the US Border Patrol is going to check the vehicle’s spare tire It’s not the Border Patrol’s first time doing this, it may have been the smugglers’s first and last time doing this.
If I’m not mistaken, most rifle rounds larger than .22 can pierce body armor, and I’m not even standing still for a .22.
Devious looking bastards . I wonder if they Hablas inglés? Press 2 for Spanish .
It isn't just hype when the pistol has high-capacity magazines, a bayonet lug, a silencer and can fire in automatic machine-gun mode!
And when you add the grenade launcher and flame thrower add-ons...
There are heavy restrictions on the particular “cop killer” ammo. Not all 5.7 bullets are the same.
That is a very old historic city tht they had for their destination
Anything is a "cop killer". Some folks after spicy Taco Tuesday could be considered "cop killers" in a stuck elevator...
Ted Kennedy *spit* tried to get a lot of rifle ammo banned as “armor piercing,” as I recall.
All that (and more) could be stuffed into one spare tire?
Must have been a truck sized tire.
I understand that a sharp knife will go right through kevlar. That’s why they have metal plates in most body armor that will at least slow down or maybe deflect an attempt to stab the person.
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