Interesting conflicts in this article... I believe this is an excuse for gun control / AWB since for one, our gun shows and guns shops DON'T sell
Rocket Launchers and grenades... also, the ATF statistics later in the article show a much smaller number.
"Let me express to you that we've seized in this two years more than 25,000 weapons and guns, and more than 90 percent of them came from United
States, and I'm talking from missiles launchers to machine guns and grenades."
Now the ATF numbers from the same article:
The ATF says more than 7,700 guns sold in America were traced to Mexico last year, up from 3,300 the year before and about 2,100 in 2006.
Now the astronomical number from the same article: (730,000 guns to Mexico last year).... wow, that is almost 100x the ATF number.
The Brookings Institution has estimated that 2,000 guns enter Mexico from the United States every day.
Then this "misleading" statement:
When the U.S. enforced the assault weapons ban, only 21 percent of the weapons Mexico seized from traffickers were assault rifles, Eduardo Medina
Mora, Mexico's Attorney General said.
OK, you could buy an AR15 during the "ban" just as you can today because none of these weapons were "banned". Anyone with half a brain knows this
and this statement "suggests" than the AWB had something to do with traffickers not having weapons... I call BS.
Now most of this CBS article is taken from the New York Times article below... except the NYT article goes into much more detail, showing how the ATF
traced guns back to the seller and busted the guy... that is what they do you know, they trace the guns sold in the US back to the seller and bust
them... but the CBS article "suggests" that the US is just flooding weapons over the border because nobody will do a thing about it... of course a
new law would do the trick.. wink wink.
www.nytimes.com...
In 2007, the firearms agency traced 2,400 weapons seized in Mexico back to dealers in the United States, and 1,800 of those came from dealers
operating in the four states along the border, with Texas first, followed by California, Arizona and New Mexico.
So, it isn't hard to trace them back to the "corrupt" dealers on the border that are doing this crap and prosecute them as they are this Mr.
Iknadosian.
Good, I want these bastards who sell to the drug cartels prosecuted, but I fear the agenda with all these stories about US weapons flowing into Mexico
are being exaggerated to press gun control here.
www.nytimes.com...
Colombia Rebels Linked to Mexico Drug Cartels
www.heritage.org...
The arsenals of Mexico's drug cartels include .50-caliber machine guns, anti-tank rockets, grenade launchers, fragmentation grenades, and
mortars. Ordinary police units are often simply outgunned.
Ok guys, they ain't getting these weapons at the gun shows or US gun stores now are they....
vladtepesblog.com...
From Spanish Newspaper, Mexican Drug cartels work with Iranian terrorist groups
According to the report, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards and other organizations are running the courses given in Iran, and they include
training the Mexicans in the handling of bazookas and rocket launchers, among other high caliber weaponry, along side sympathizers of al-Qaida.
One of the reasons for the Iranian training is that the Mexican cartels are acquiring more and more powerful weaponry of higher caliber, like rocket
launchers, to confront the army (Mexican) that has been deployed in various states to fight against them since December 2006.
Hmmm... wonder where those rocket launchers an .50 cals are coming from?
Now the LA Times gets even better
An estimated 97% of the arms used by the Mexican cartels -- including military-grade grenade launchers and assault weapons -- are purchased at
sporting goods stores and gun shows on the U.S. side of the border and then smuggled south, according to the Mexican government.
Now it is 97% and military grenade launchers purchased at US sporting goods stores.... Where the hell are these stores, I want some military grenade
launchers and grenades.. (sarcasm)
www.newsmax.com...
Gen. Barry McCaffrey, the former U.S. drug czar, says that amid the escalating bloodshed, it’s not unusual to find Mexican thugs armed with,
“sea-going submersibles, helicopters and modern transport aviation, automatic weapons, RPG’s, Anti-Tank 66 mm rockets, mines and booby traps,
heavy machine guns, 50 cal sniper rifles, massive use of military hand grenades, and the most modern models of 40mm grenade machine guns.”
Get my point yet... LAST MONTH were talking about how well armed these guys are... Now suddenly in February all these stories about how US gunstores
are responsible for arming the drug gangs with all these weapons... err.. 40mm grenade machine guns, RPG's, Anti tank rockets.. these aren't from
Bass Pro shop now are they?
Sure, the ATF is busting a few US gun dealers as they should but these are only a few hundred semi auto rifles... not the freeking machine guns and
RPG's that have flooded the area... what gives... why all the attention on US gun laws... hmmm
Here is another one.
experts.foreignpolicy.com...
There are nearly 7,000 gun shops along the southern U.S. border, about three for every mile. They sell thousands of hand grenades,
rocket-propelled grenade launchers, AK-47s, and "cop killer" guns and bullets that cut through Kevlar body armor. The weapons quickly flow south,
again with barely a nod from U.S. Border Patrol.
Really? Gun shops selling thousands of hand grenades & RPG's....
www.freerepublic.com...
, a major firefight occurred just across the border from the United States in Reynosa, when Mexican authorities attempted to apprehend several
armed men seen riding in a vehicle. The men fled to a nearby residence and engaged the pursuing police with gunfire, hand grenades and
rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs). After the incident, in which five cartel gunmen were killed and several gunmen, cops, soldiers and civilians were
wounded, authorities recovered a 60 mm mortar, five RPG rounds and two fragmentation grenades.
60 mm mortar... did that come from Dicks Sporting Goods??
www.ww4report.com...
M72 and AT-4 antitank rockets, RPG-7 rocket launchers, 37- and 40-mm MGL grenade launchers, large amounts of fragmentation grenades and 50-mm
Barret rifles have been confiscated from the Zetas. The list of arms confiscated from the gang last year also includes submachine guns and FN Herstal
pistols, also known as "cop killers." Over the past 21 months, authorities have seized 28,000 firearms, 3.7 million rounds of ammunitions and 1,981
grenades. (Prensa Latina, Excélsior, Jan. 5)
www.americanintelligence.us...=5414.html
"The 5.7 x 28, armor piercing (AP) rounds are not available for sale to the general public and are probably coming from the Mexican military,"
said Stewart who has analyzed U.S.-Mexican border security issues for half a decade.
Last week Gen. Ángeles Dahuajare announced that more than 17,000 soldiers had deserted in 2008.
"The Mexican Army is becoming a revolving door for the enforcement arm of the drug cartels; they simply pay better," Stewart said.
"If they don't get the weapons from the U.S., they'll get it from somewhere else: Brazil, Guatemala, Argentina or even former satellite state
'gray markets,'" he said.
Yes, there is a problem... bust these sons a beeches US gun dealers sending semi autos to Mexico.... but why the sudden exaggerated stories?
