Updates on Mexico's cartels acquisition of weapons

[Lennie]

Many are coming from Columbia. Many are police illegally selling confiscated weapons back to the cartels. Many are now coming from Central America, primarily Columbia.

Mexico's cartels are finding new ways to get their hands on a new kind of gun

The flow of black-market weapons facilitates cartel turf wars and has driven killings in Mexico to record levels.

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[VanceInWA]

I guess that's one way to resourcefully solve "supply chain issues."

 

[jackrv]

Last time I was taught geography.... Columbia was in SOUTH America. Did the continent shift?

 

[Black Dog]

It's called RECYCLING.

 

[P7M13]

The cartels have enough cash that they could build and run entire, vertically integrated, weapons and ammunition manufacturing facilities, and launder all their money themselves.
I wish they would do this.
Then you could point to liberals and say, "your supporting the gun trade."
Then again, useless, as it's easy to point to them and say, "you're promoting crime and gun violence with lax laws", but they think their line of coke came from the local dealer and they're supporting the local economy when snorting.
The USA can't go to hell fast enough to wake up the millions of moronic minions mindlessly mimicking media mumbo-jumbo. Live by ignorance, die by ignorance. Those holding swords will smile.

 

[bionic knees]

5 1/2 year old story.

 

[RobMa]

As far as I am concerned, let the gangs off each other, as long as no innocents get hurt in the process...

 

[titsonritz]

As far as I am concerned, let the gangs off each other, as long as no innocents get hurt in the process...

There's reality for you.

 

[RobMa]

There's reality for you.

Yea, it sucks

 

[VanceInWA]

There's reality for you.

Yup. Reality's a b-i-t-c-h.

 

[ma96782]

In order to avoid embarrassment for the BATF.......
I hope at least......
They removed the serial numbers.

Hummmm.....maybe, there was actually a "Phase 2"?

Aloha, Mark

 

[VanceInWA]

Last time I was taught geography.... Columbia was in SOUTH America. Did the continent shift?

Actually, Columbia is in North America, the eastern seaboard of the United States to be precise. I'm just being a smart aleck! You spelled it ColUmbia, not ColOmbia. Columbia is D.C., Colombia is the South American country.

 

[Flopsweat]

5 1/2 year old story.

I was going to say, this is nothing new. It's been going on since there were cartels. In fact, the U.S. has never been the main source for cartel guns. They control a seaport. They can import pallets of full-auto AK's at a fraction of the cost of a semi-auto AKM from the U.S. Full-auto AR pattern rifles are too rare and too expensive to be a rational choice for import from the U.S. There are some specialty weapons that are harder to source other places, but except for perhaps the prestige, there's not much point in buying a semi-auto AR for twice or more the price of a full-auto AK. If there are large numbers of guns going into Mexico from here -- and I doubt it -- they probably aren't going to the cartels.

 

[po18guy]

5 1/2 year old story.

In northern and western Mexico, the cartels are the government.