So, the ATF was like, "We'll show you! The Democrats gave them the guns. Called a "technical" by US military.) Colt Super .38 pistol: Colt, based in West Hartford, Conn., is the corporate legacy of Samuel Colt, who popularized the revolver in the years before the Civil War. Since the federal law banning assault weapons expired in 2004, so-called "straw purchasers" have flooded U.S. gun stores in the Southwest, mostly in Texas and Arizona, sweeping up these and other weapons. In Michoacn, the global powerhouse Crtel Jalisco Nueva Generacin, or CJNG, has been engaged in a long and deadly battle with Sinaloa and other rival cartels. He expected to be paid anadditional $5,000 once the guns were delivered toMichoacn, Mexico, according to court records. One exhibit features weapons seized from cartel members. It is also one of the weapons of choice fordrugcartels, according to theMexicangovernment, which this week filed a lawsuit in theUS District Court in Massachusetts against the company and 10 other gun manufacturers. He was badly wounded, while two bodyguards and an innocent bystander were killed. Barn Brain also conveniently ignores the fact that there are gunsmiths in the U.S. and Mexico that regularly convert semi-auto American made guns to full auto as well and yes they are second hand guns not vetted that come from the U.S. All of the straw buyers were arrested in one fell swoop in 2011. They weren't tracking them well enough; everyone made it over the border. Ebrard said about 60% of the weapons seized in Mexico in recent years were believed to have been sold in 10 U.S. counties, mostly along the border. Would they be interested in Hello Kitty grips or SpongeBob sights? It was going on all over the city -- we knew we weren't the only store -- you've got plenty of evidence, you know where they live. M53 gun truck "LIL SURESHOT", outfitted with a forward fighting box . The federal report also concluded that of 2,921 traced guns, 1,470, or 50 percent, were from Texas. ), We want USA to be majority white! ", Spencer Platt/Getty Images News/Getty Images, "Once the ATF was more involved, we had a separate set of paperwork. You took their 4473 and transcribed all that, then it asked what type of transaction it was, how many 100s, how many 50s, how many 10s, ones. How Mexican drug cartels have caused a rapid increase in lime prices, putting a . 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It is not clear if Century Arms imported the Draco in that case. ", Yvonne Hemsey/Hulton Archive/Getty Images. I tend to like Belgian, Swiss, German, Austrian, and Italian guns. One thing struck him as particularly odd: " as I'm ringing up the transaction, he has one of those little drawstring backpacks. It is also one of the weapons of choice for drug cartels, according to the. This, by the way, is the Barrett .50 caliber sniper rifle: It costs between $8,000 and $10,000, and it can literally put a bullet through most light tanks. Mexican officials want to disarm America so the can finally claim Texas again and spread there filth into the lungs and veins of every Godless heathen that exists :). Agents launched 534 investigations, seized $29 million and intercepted more than 1,200 guns, 4,700 magazines for semi-automatic and automatic weapons and 700,000 rounds of ammunition headed to. "I was working in a very large gun store in Phoenix at the time, and we sold everything. This is another valid reason to vet second hand gun purchases because there often is no paper trail with second hand guns, especially guns that have been sold over and over again second hand. A roster of convicted cartel members, ex-smugglers and former Mexican officials testified that Garca Luna took millions of dollars in cartel cash, met with major traffickers and kept law. Meanwhile, check out this picture of a gun cache from El Chapo's hide-out: That's a Barrett .50 caliber rifle, confirmed to have gotten to Mexico via the ATF's gun-running program. The state, about a five-hour drive west of Mexico City,is known for its production of avocados. View of gun butts made of gold, diamonds, emeralds and rubies to form the Mexican flag, in Culiacan, Sinaloa state on July 12, 2011. 2023 USA TODAY, a division of Gannett Satellite Information Network, LLC. , Mexican Drug Cartels Say Americas Gunms The Best , , , , , , fck n A ,HiPoint told yah so. 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Cartels:As Mexican drug groups cut in on avocado sales by extorting growers, armed locals fight back. Fake News. Between all the illegal guns and millions in gold, jewelry and diamonds, there are armed guards on constant watch. The Central Intelligence Agency was intimately involved with the federal government's infamous "Operation Fast and Furious" scheme to send American weapons to Mexican drug cartels while. Besides, the Belgian five-seven was supposed to be the ultimate status symbol], Tijuanas Director of Public Safety, Marco Antonio Sotomayor, says most of the guns flowing into his city come from north of the border. A row of glass cases are filled with seized weapons. While they had been gun-running since 2006, a 2011 report by the inspector general criticized the agency for dedicating too many resources to busting straw purchasers and not enough at busting the cartel guys doing the buying. Some of the reasons so many guns come from Texas: people can cross the border on land or by theRio Grande River, and"in places like Houston and San Antonio, theres a gun store on every corner, said Will Glaspy, formerly in charge of DEA's Houston Division. John Allen Muhammad, the D.C. sniper, and his youthful accomplice, Lee Boyd Malvo, used a Bushmaster .223 in nine of 10 sniper-style murders that terrorized the Washington area in 2002. The No. Somehow, gum made out of tree bark is still softer than Bazooka. A gold-plated AK-47 rifle seized to alleged leader of "The Resistance" drugs cartel, Ramiro Pozos Gonzalez, aka "El Molca", is presented to the press in Mexico City, on September 12, 2012. In 2018, the homicide rate in Mexico hit a record high of 35,964, spiking 12 percent from the year before, according to the countrys National Institute of Statistics and Geography. Pass a domestic terrorism bill. That included riflesmanufactured in Tennessee and Arkansas capable of downing aircraft or ripping through armored police cars andtanks. Theycould each face up to 10 years in prison. Other than "buying the same $10,000 gun multiple times" and "paying in whale-choking bundles of cash," there was nothing particularly shady about the dudes making these straw purchases. Really, these propagandists have got to get on the same page. The Hearst survey of court cases found these weapons among the top 10: The Belgian-made FN Herstal Five-SeveN: Some versions of this pistol hold 10 rounds; others have a 20-round capacity. How U.S. California already has background check laws & every other useless gun control policy you fools have dreamed up. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Worried that weapons purchases for drug cartels might fuel more calls for tougher U.S. gun control laws, gun-rights advocates insist that existing laws are sufficient to control such trafficking. The Chicago study proved guns used in crime were often at least 11 years old and had passed through many hands making it impossible to trace them to the person that used them in a crime. An arrogant armed American Gringo. Pre-order it now! Not with all their progressive laws. You also said: Criminal gangs that wish to project power often post photos on social media of their members toting M82 gunsand latest military gadgets, mimicking the style of special forces units. [see the above; Israel, China, Brazil, and many other big arms makers also chip in plenty. So, thats bad, thats a horror. it would help a great deal if the U.S. had much tighter gun control and drug enforcement.. So same basic rules as slinging coffee at Starbucks, only with slightly higher stakes if somebody doesn't buy your fake smile. "We have adequate laws on the books. What ARE you waiting on? Cartels often use drug profits to pay Americans to buy weaponsfor them at retail stores andgun shows, called straw purchases. You have entered an incorrect email address! In May 2008, Mexican federal police raided a suspected trafficker house in Culiacan, a long-standing drug hotbed in the Mexican state of Sinaloa. 2- Declare Antifa a domestic terror organization. "It doesn't say anything about conduct of retailer, manufacturer or purchaser.". Or is it because the CA border is not a barrier to trafficking contraband? Holder and Obama spoiled the Mexican Cartels by sending them all those quality US made weapons while they ran the show in Washington. What Newell said quite clearly is that . 1 gun in the Hearst survey was the AK-47 imported from Romania by Century International Arms of Delray Beach, Fla. Century Arms, as it's commonly known, legally circumvents a federal law stipulating that imported rifles must be suitable for "sporting purposes." This story has been shared 164,095 times. Try again Jethro your out of your league. "We've got agents and we've got trained criminal investigators from the host government in Mexico working investigations in Mexico," he said. John Boch, you said: Subscribe to our YouTube channel, and check out another How To Solve The Country's Gun Problem, and watch other videos you won't see on the site! This made for an interesting customer service dilemma: How do you deal with a customer you know is: 1. All the illegal purchases followed the same basic pattern, "They would always call, because they always wanted to know the exact amount ahead of time -- usually same day -- and make sure we had one in stock. The arrests on January 19 are the result of Operation Semper Infidelis, a Los Angeles Strike Force investigation that targeted a domestic weapons trafficking organization that provided firearms and ammunition to the Crtel Jalisco Nueva Generacin (CJNG), one of the largest and most violent drug cartels in Mexico. A 9mm browning pistol has the diamond encrusted initials of LMJ. Obama supplied guns to mexican gangs, and were also used in Paris France terrorist attack. Within the next 45 minutes to an hour, they would come in. Pass red flag laws. Because they could be doing a hell of a lot more to fight smuggling into the country and to protect their own good guy guns from being stolen. "As a result of the continued use and possession of many of these guns, residents of Mexico will continue to be killed and injured by these guns, and the public will continue to fear for their health, safety, and welfare," Americanattorneys wrote in the suit on behalf of Mexico. Its compactness makes it easy to conceal and some versions can hold a 30-round magazine, made of lightweight polymer. Also, follow us on Facebook, and we'll follow you forever. Drug cartels have been using monster type armored cars for about 15 years these recent photos clashes in tamaulipas between cdn and cdg they use m82 m017 barrets also m2 machine guns and 40mm grenades this doesn't happen very far from egle pass texas or mcallen texas . Get the best of Cracked sent directly to your inbox! Officers found all of those brands, except Century Arms,in the shipments smuggled by Diaz, court records show. The article, titled, "The U.S. Must Defeat Mexico's Drug Cartels", . SHARE AK-47 favorite gun of cartels WASHINGTON Convicted gun smuggler John Phillip Hernandez of Houston was likely not the kind of customer that Bushmaster Firearms International had in mind when he purchased 14 of the company's .223 caliber AR-15s at Houston area gun shops in 2006 and 2007. The M82 can easily penetrate bulletproof vests, concrete walls and even tanks, says its manufacturer Barrett Firearms. The M82 can easily penetrate bulletproof vests, concrete walls and even tanks, says its manufacturer Barrett Firearms. They have special loopholes that allow them to form their own government or something like that. But it has expanded operations in the majority of Mexico's states. Another solid reason for the U.S. to pass universal back ground checks. The tribes in America are not allowed to do things like that, instead they have to follow 3 sets of laws, otherwise a lot of white Americans would move to the reservations for some liberty. The Mexican government estimates that more than half a million guns are smuggled from the U.S. each year, arming Mexico's deadly cartel wars. The raw power of therifle, which weighs about 31 lb and is 4.9 feet long, was on show in mid-2020 during a military-style assassination attempt on Mexico Cityspolicechief that was captured by surveillance cameras. Military-style weaponry has enabled the drug trafficking organizations to match and sometimes overwhelm the firepower of Mexican law enforcement. So CA is itself one of those neighboring States that is (cough) responsible for illegal firearms/use across a boundry? The Bureau Of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF), despite sounding like the most fun bureau in history, generally frowns on that kind of thing. Workers repair the facade of City Hall riddled with bullet holes in Villa Union, Mexico, in December 2019, after a gun battle between a heavily armed drug cartel assault group and security forces. Guns are funneled into the closest or easiest crossing into Mexico and they come from other states with lax laws. You have lost 4,020 Federal, State, and Municipal Police killed by the cartels. The Mexican government claims that more than 68% of illegal guns smuggled across the border are made by those companies, along withBarrett and Witmer Public Safety Group, which acquired Interstate Arms. And then paperwork started. Now, he's militarized the country. In addition to weapons from the States working better, Mexico cartels view firearms as status symbols, retired DEA agent Jack Riley told The San Diego Union-Tribune: It is really important to these criminal organizations, who stay in business by the threat of violence and through the use of violence; and the tools that they prefer to do that with are American-made guns.. Theres a little bit of The Dude in a lot of Jeff Bridges performances. An estimated 20 attorneys, many based in Texas, are expected to unite to represent Mexico,including six companies they blame for the bulk of recovered crime guns there:Smith & Wesson, Beretta, Century Arms, Colt, Glockand Ruger. Enough-time for real action. Total dead including common citizens, murdered politicians and cartel members was at 115,000 estimated for 2006 thru 2018. Our source and his manager didn't call the authorities immediately -- buying a fancy gun with cash isn't illegal; otherwise, how would we have rap videos? https://www.judicialwatch.org/corruption-chronicles/law-enforcement-sources-gun-used-paris-terrorist-attacks-came-phoenix/. Guns and munitions confiscated from alleged Mexican drug dealers Alberto Sanchez Hinojosa aka "El Tony", Francisco Arteaga Espino and Leonel Cruz Hernandez are displayed to the press in Mexico City on September 7, 2008, after they were detained in Villahermosa, Tabasco state. At one point, it was probably four to five of these rifles a week. Exactly, if America had adopted Mexican-style gun control, it probably wouldve had as many mass shootings as Mexico has had in the past 30 years. All Rights Reserved, Fed raises interest rates by 0.5%, the highest rise since 2000, Here are the 14 inductees for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to . WASHINGTON Convicted gun smuggler John Phillip Hernandez of Houston was likely not the kind of customer that Bushmaster Firearms International had in mind when he purchased 14 of the company's .223 caliber AR-15s at Houston area gun shops in 2006 and 2007. But the weapons that Hernandez and his associates purchased ended up in the hands of Mexican drug cartel pistoleros, including the Bushmaster .223 that was later used to kill four police officers and three secretaries in Acapulco. After paying the piso and traveling throughCoahuila, Diaz still wouldhave faced a 14-hour drive south toMichoacn. Do it.' I mean the cartels. If the laws actually worked, wouldnt Arizona, New Mexico, or Texas be the easier route? He claimed he didn't know the names of the gun buyers or their cartel affiliations. So, you would come in, say hello, shoot the shit, ask him about his kid. And follow Robert on Twitter. Straw purchases for others are a violation of federal firearms law. In fact, according to Newsweek, cartel criminals view American guns as status symbols because, well, they work. Two of those weapons were tracked to the murder of a U.S. Border Patrol agent: The whole mess immediately became an embarrassment for the Obama administration. AP/Eduardo Verdugo. The bridge connectsEagle Pass, Texas, to the Northern Mexicocity of Piedras Negras in the state of Coahuila. (zero miles currently built 1 mo gov shut down trump heights built tho??? Never heard of Obama? The Medellin cartel surged to power in the 1980s. That's the NRA position.". At the same time, Mexico remains a cautionary preview of what might happen in America if we adopted Mexican-style gun control. floating around in pictures. Im having a memory lapsewhich guns are made in Mexico, exactly? Automatic guns and rocket-propelled grenades follow drug trade routes back to China, Guatemala, and the black markets in Central and South America. CJNG video shows off high-powered guns:Why a viral drug cartel video showing off tanks and taunts is bad news for the US. He campaigned on "Hugs, Not Bullets.". Mexican and U.S. authorities arrested Guzman in February; he had eluded authorities for decades. "Operation Wide Receiver" was a subset of the overall project, centered around Arizona. It makes Americas 1930s Gangster Era a minor skirmish by comparison, and it has lasted much longer too. Typically, the purchaser turns the guns over to a broker who takes them across the border to Mexico, where such weapons cannot be bought legally. The cartel can trace its roots to the 1960s and '70s, when farming families entered the marijuana business. . of violence in this conflict: intra-cartel disputes, inter-cartel rivalries, and the overall war that Mexican President Felipe Caldern's government is waging on the cartels. An admirer of Colombian crime boss Pablo Escobar places flowers on his . According to prosecutors, the weapons are believed to belong to the Valencia gang, allies of the powerful Sinaloa drug cartel, and most of the 31 pistols found in the raid had gold or silver-plated grips or glittered with diamonds. The indigenous people of Mexico do arm themselves and fight the government. For our source, who did nothing but exactly what the law told him, watching the bloody aftermath of the scandal was traumatic: "Our initial thought was how many of these can be pointed across the border at our guys? The English actor found the good side of being bad, Bad news that cult recovery group just might be a cult. Why Mexico Is Right to Sue U.S. So, in 2006, they started experimenting with "gunwalking," essentially letting the cartels smuggle guns into Mexico so they could track them down and catch them. If American made guns are somehow responsible for all this killing by the evil people using them, why do you allow them to enter your country so easily? The recent California shooting was done by a maniac who drove for almost 12 hours to commit crime. Declare Eric Holder a domestic terrorist and arrest him. Its a weapon of war, added the official. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., pressed Garland regarding the opioid epidemic, highlighting that fentanyl is responsible for more deaths than guns and car accidents. The flow of high-caliber arms smuggled across the porous U.S. border has alarmed Mexican officials and few weapons are as powerful as the U.S.-made M82 semi-automatic rifle increasingly favored by . ", The Barrett is a rifle with almost no practical criminal uses. The problem isnt cartels sneaking (civilian) guns from the U.S. Havent you heard anyone who comes to the US and gets a magic piece of paper is just as American and you and I. Weapons such as the M82 are part of a torrent of illegal arms flowing south, Mexico alleges, partly due to the manufacturers negligent business practices that had encouraged illegal arms trafficking. Every once in a while, a dolt drops a gem. CJNG is based in Guadalajara, Mexico's second-largest city, in the state of Jalisco. Fast and Furious was a Department of Justice Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) "gunrunning" operation in which the Obama administration allowed guns to be sold to Mexican drug cartels in the hope the weapons would be recovered at crime scenes. A special investigative report in 2019 by TheCourier Journal warned of CJNG's ruthlessness in Mexico and its reach across the U.S. into small towns. Agents launched 534investigations, seized $29 million and intercepted more than 1,200 guns,4,700 magazines for semi-automatic and automatic weaponsand 700,000 rounds of ammunition headed to Mexico, Lestrange told The Courier Journalthis month. We can reduce the carnage if pols have the guts to act, Eric Holder (@EricHolder) August 5, 2019, Enough-time for real action. Weapons and jewelry seized to alleged leader of "El Cartel del Golfo" Jorge Eduardo Costilla Sanchez, aka "El Coss", are presented to the press in Mexico City, on September 13, 2012. ", "The ATF said, 'Don't refuse 'em, just let 'em go. A gold plated pistol and jewelry, allegedly seized from Manuel Alquisires Garcia, aka "El Meme," sit on display during his presentation to the press of in Mexico City, Monday Sept. 12, 2011. Yes, Mexico has some house cleaning of their own to do, but it would help a great deal if the U.S. had much tighter gun control and drug enforcement. National Police Chief Gen. Oscar Naranjo, holds a handgun seized to Colombian drug lord and former paramilitary leader Pedro Guerrero Castillo, known as "Cuchillo" (Knife), as he speaks during a press conference in Bogota, Colombia, on December 29, 2010. Its a very symbolic weapon in the narco world and for the narco esthetic, Grandmaison said. But then, he broke out the huge bag of cash. Under tight security, an anonymous New York federal court jury deliberated for three days before reaching a verdict in the drug trafficking case against ex-Public Security Secretary Genaro Garca Luna. A Draco, purchased in Joshua, Texas, near Forth Worth, was used in the attack and shooting death of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Jaime Zapata in Mexico in February. Ban assault weapons, high capacity magazines, body armor, silencers. Among Mexican traffickers, it has earned itself the nickname "cuerno de chivo" or "goat horn" because of its distinctive banana-shaped magazine. If you have a Barrett, it means that any non-special forces such as the localpoliceand the municipalpolicecannot fight you, Grandmaison said. 2. The survey drawn from guns identified by manufacturer or importer in U.S. court documents from 44 cases involving 165 defendants in Texas, Arizona and three other states shows the purveyors of guns to Mexican drug traffickers followed a time-honored maxim of product salesmanship: Bigger is definitely better. How does the cartel feel about branded accessories? No it could not be right. American guns are ok, and many of the gun companies from the above countries have some US manufacturing. "The majority of weapons we've seized since we started this operation have been in the corridor by Laredo, Texas from Laredo to El Paso," he said. But, the ATF's "sell guns to cartels and then maybe try to catch them if we've got time" plan actually dates back to the Bush Administration. In the absence of sane border security policies, Guerra said, drug cartels decide who crosses, and people in their organizations use the children to enter the U.S. SALT LAKE CITY A Utah woman is heading to federal prison for buying dozens of high powered rifles for Mexican drug cartel members. For those who never heard about this story. Century Arms Draco 7.62X39mm pistol: Another Romanian import. Cartel gunmen armed with AK-47s purchased in Arizona overwhelmed the police, killing eight. NEW YORK (AP) A former Mexican presidential cabinet member was convicted in the U.S. on Tuesday of taking massive bribes to protect the violent drug cartels he was tasked with combating. Build the wall, Mexico. SHARE AK-47 favorite gun of NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Ioan Grillo about the illegal flow of guns from the U.S. to Mexico. Mexican security personnel eventually turned him over to cartel gunmen after the arrest prompted a raging gun battle with extremely heavily armed fighters, including some with American-made . Known as CJNG, the billion-dollar cartel boasts of more than 5,000 members, an army larger than its key rival, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. In January, a Mexican judge charged. Meanwhile, the Mexican government blames prominent U.S. gun manufacturers for the influx of cartel weaponsin its lawsuit against them in federal court in Boston. [nearly all the guns they bother to trace through the ATFwhich is basically those with US markings on them, duh], The underground trade of weapons to Mexico is worth hundreds of millions of dollars annuallywith American guns used to kill tens of thousands of Mexicans each year.