Mexico & Guns

[Pasifikawv]

Rec'd absolutely no air-time in the US on English language channels:

English summary: Mexican ambassador acknowledges that Mexico's southern border with Central America is the source of a high percentage of cartel arms - including high-caliber rifles, machine guns, and grenades.

Narco se desplaza a Centroamérica por éxito en lucha antinarco: Sarukhán - Nacional - CNNMéxico.com

 

[jfd]

is there an english version for those of us not bilingual? I'd really like to know the full gist of the article......

 

[The Last Standing Knight]

Despite what people may say, many of the weapons the cartels are using are fully automatic...I kinda seriously doubt these were bought in a gun shop or at a gun show in the United States.

 

[calmex]

Oh, there is absolutely no doubt that piles and piles of arms come from Guatemala, Belize or from off-shore unloading. Lots of the AK's are fully-automatic. It's "stylish" to blame the U.S., and fits well into the agenda to work against U.S. private firearms ownership...but it's a lie that fits their purpose. I think I read somewhere that something like 20% to 30% of the weapons could positively be traced to the U.S. and the rest, well...they didn't know where those came from.

I read in a Mexican Newspaper that all the full-auto stuff pretty much had to come from "elsewhere", and that there was a lot of it. However, they might as well have saved their typing fingers the time it took to write it because nobody seems to have paid attention. (Not something, obviously, that they wanted to pay attention to.) In the meantime, the "blame the U.S." crowd will continue to do so no matter what facts they are presented with, I'm sure. It's what they want to do.

 

[Pasifikawv]

is there an english version for those of us not bilingual? I'd really like to know the full gist of the article......

I have not been able to find one. Falsehoods get front-page coverage; the rare bits of truth barely warrant ink.

NRA:ILA also runs news link about issues related to gun rights and there has been no feed there either. I figured with this subject matter, NRA:ILA woulda linked it if it were anywhere in the English language press - or even any commentary on the subject.

 

[27145]

We are only culpable due to America's appetite for drugs. I would think the Russians and Chinese are funneling guns there to make a profit and mess with us.

Other than that, I could care less if they kill themselves down there.

 

[Cyrano]

It stands to reason that if they want full auto weapons, they can't get them from the US. However the going price for AK 47s is something line $50 on the international illicit weapons market, so why bother with those expensive, semi-automatic US guns? They may be able to get them for free from Raul Castro or Hugo Chavez anyway.

Our border is porous enough, but it's a lot harder to smuggle guns across the US border than the Guatamala border, and Mexico must have thousands of miles of shoreline, with only a small Navy to guard it. I wonder how many of them came across the beach.

 

[27145]

is there an english version for those of us not bilingual? I'd really like to know the full gist of the article......

You don't speak Spanish? It will be the official language here in 10 years.

 

[Pasifikawv]

We are only culpable due to America's appetite for drugs. I would think the Russians and Chinese are funneling guns there to make a profit and *** with us.

No doubt the cartels are getting some weaponry from Asia. With increased interdiction at home, the manufacture of meth has exploded in Mexico. The cartels get the precursor chemicals from Asian suppliers. Throwing in a few crates of fully auto Chinese AK's is business as usual in the black market.

 

[oldman45]

Mexico is preparing to sue the US gun makers for sending guns down there.

I doubt a large percentage of US made guns are the problem.

My concerns is what is the legal definition of US gun maker. If the guns are made in South America by a company that was in the US, is that company a US gunmaker?

Mexico should tend to it's internal problems like drugs, gangs and such without trying to hire US law firms to sue US gunmakers.

 

[ohiococonut]

Quoted from an email from NRA IL Alert...............

"That's why Congress passed the "Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act" in 2005. This act protects firearms manufacturers, distributors, dealers and importers from suits brought about as a result of "the harm solely caused by the criminal or unlawful misuse of firearm products or ammunition products by others when the product functioned as designed and intended." The outlook for a Mexican government suit looks dim; since the PLCAA was signed into law by President George W. Bush on Oct. 26, 2005, no federal court has allowed such a suit by a government plaintiff to go forward against a U.S. firearms manufacturer."