I did not write the following but wanted to share it with you.
Let’s set things straight right up front. Yes, some guns are being smuggled into Mexico from the U.S. Most are handguns. It should come as no surprise that guns are smuggled into Mexico. But, the problem being portrayed by the U.S. media and our government is not as it seems. Mexico doesn’t allow ownership of most firearms, so ordinary Mexican people seeking self-protection will find a way to get them into Mexico. As for the drug cartels operating in the border towns along the U.S., they have other sources for their firearms; fully automatic weapons are what they want. The public US gun market can’t supply these.
Cartels buy their arms from countries around the world on the black market, or from countries wishing to destabilize North America. They arm themselves from a worldwide multi-billion dollar black market of full auto military weapons including grenades, land mines and RPGs. They also “procure” their weapons from within the Mexican military itself.
The drug cartels can easily afford to fly their arms into Mexico using their own fleet of aircraft on to remote airfields, or land them on remote Mexican shores, they do it with drugs all of the time. The thought of drug cartels buying semi-auto AR15 or AK rifles in small quantities from U.S. gun dealers is viewed as a joke. The only people fooled by all the political rhetoric are Americans listening to the likes of Attorney General Eric Holder and other anti-gun politicians.
The next time you see a news report of illegal full-auto weapons and grenades being found here in the U.S., you know where they came from. It wasn’t from a gun store in Tucson or Phoenix. The administration is right that gun trafficking along the U.S./Mexico border is a problem. Not only do we have drugs and illegal aliens coming in our southern border, but we also have military arms and explosives coming into our country illegally as well. That’s the issue and our government is being disingenuous in its argument.
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The real problem with Mexico and gun smuggling
I did not write the following but wanted to share it with you.
Let’s set things straight right up front. Yes, some guns are being smuggled into Mexico from the U.S. Most are handguns. It should come as no surprise that guns are smuggled into Mexico. But, the problem being portrayed by the U.S. media and our government is not as it seems. Mexico doesn’t allow ownership of most firearms, so ordinary Mexican people seeking self-protection will find a way to get them into Mexico. As for the drug cartels operating in the border towns along the U.S., they have other sources for their firearms; fully automatic weapons are what they want. The public US gun market can’t supply these.
Cartels buy their arms from countries around the world on the black market, or from countries wishing to destabilize North America. They arm themselves from a worldwide multi-billion dollar black market of full auto military weapons including grenades, land mines and RPGs. They also “procure” their weapons from within the Mexican military itself.
The drug cartels can easily afford to fly their arms into Mexico using their own fleet of aircraft on to remote airfields, or land them on remote Mexican shores, they do it with drugs all of the time. The thought of drug cartels buying semi-auto AR15 or AK rifles in small quantities from U.S. gun dealers is viewed as a joke. The only people fooled by all the political rhetoric are Americans listening to the likes of Attorney General Eric Holder and other anti-gun politicians.
The next time you see a news report of illegal full-auto weapons and grenades being found here in the U.S., you know where they came from. It wasn’t from a gun store in Tucson or Phoenix. The administration is right that gun trafficking along the U.S./Mexico border is a problem. Not only do we have drugs and illegal aliens coming in our southern border, but we also have military arms and explosives coming into our country illegally as well. That’s the issue and our government is being disingenuous in its argument.