Traffickers have escalated their arms race, acquiring military-grade weapons, including hand grenades, grenade launchers, armor-piercing munitions and antitank rockets with firepower far beyond the assault rifles and pistols that have dominated their arsenals.But...but...but...what about those damned American gun shows...?
Most of these weapons are being smuggled from Central American countries or by sea, eluding U.S. and Mexican monitors who are focused on the smuggling of semiauto- matic and conventional weapons purchased from dealers in the U.S. border states of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California. [More]
Via Len Savage, who asks:
LA Times even gets it?Oh--he reserves that for people like us. Isn't that obvious?
Where is Eric Holder's condemnation?
Love how none of the main stream media and officials will EVER go on record to say any of this. It'll completely undermine their later arguments toward total civilian disarmament.
ReplyDelete:-) They can "argue" disarmament all they want! Translating that to action might be just a tad bit trickier for the "boots on the ground"!
ReplyDeleteMost of these weapons are being smuggled from Central American countries or by sea...
ReplyDeleteI've known about this for a long long time.
I think from Don Kates.
Good to reveal the truth again.
It's now more important for government officials to make a decisive statement for the press. It does not get fact checked or checked out for truth. More important to broadcast the statement/viewpoint.
ReplyDeleteJust like the stimulus bill. Pass it and don't read it.
Next our vets are going to be carrying their own medical expenses for combat injuries. While we pay more for ammunition. The brass recycling pays more to the taxpayer than the shredded bass method. Seems to me that the press has let us down again.
A point I made was in reference to this line from the article:
ReplyDeleteSome of the weapons are left over from the wars that the United States helped fight in Central America, U.S. officials said.
What does that say about the "95% of guns recovered in Mexico coming from the U.S."?
Well, Kurt, what it says is that to date, nobody has printed a serial number of any weapons recovered in Mexico.
ReplyDeleteSince the ATFE can tell where everydamnone of those weapons went,(if U.S. manufactured or imported) at least initially, it seems they are hiding something as regards the source, doesn't it?
What? me worry? NOPE! I already know that shooting here is inevitable. Don't bother to worry about what you cannot change.