One of the most dangerous pockets of Mexico City: Teptio, the primary-black market area, under the thumb of the Union Cartel. Notify me of follow-up comments by email. Those Ma Dueces & full auto Norinco Type 56 carbines arent coming from America, duh], 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. [whats the status symbol aspect have to do with anything? In fact, according to Newsweek, cartel criminals view American guns as status symbols because, well, they work. Why wouldnt *that* be the most obvious area to apply enforcement pressure, instead of law abiding gun owners hundreds or thousands of miles away on the far side of the country? Holder and Obama spoiled the Mexican Cartels by sending them all those quality US made weapons while they ran the show in Washington. Most of the military grade stuff comes from South America and can be traced to US and Soviet shipments to a few countries back in the late 80's. They were used to set up or. "Almost all guns recovered at crime scenes in Mexico 70% to 90% of them were trafficked from the U.S.," the Mexican government claims in its complaint. Mexico: U.S. Supplies 90% Of Cartel's Guns. The English actor found the good side of being bad, Bad news that cult recovery group just might be a cult. He was badly wounded, while two bodyguards and an innocent bystander were killed. Alfred Guzman and Ivan Guzman are the sons of Joaqun (El Chapo) Guzmn Loera better known as the infamous kingpin of the Sinaloa cartel, which is North America's post powerful, and feared, organization trafficking drugs and laundering money worldwide. The weapons are sold legally but the purchasers must sign a U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives document saying they are buying the guns for themselves. Called a "technical" by US military.) Mexico suffered more than 40,000 fatal shootings in 2018, according to public briefings by Mexico's Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard. Or is it because the CA border is not a barrier to trafficking contraband? If not, they should be left alone. Vasquez'sattorney, Silverio Martinez, said he plans to lobby for leniency, even probation, arguing this is his client's first arrest. I hear Chinese AK-74 types a. The No. A Hearst Newspapers survey of 1,600 guns purchased mostly in Texas and Arizona which were either shipped to Mexico or intercepted en route shows the Bushmaster .223 AR-15 ranks second among firearms apparently used in drug warfare. Never mind that the majority of the cartels armament needs are met by leaks of official weaponry bought by the Mexican military. 12 of 29 13 of 29 Guns and munitions confiscated from alleged Mexican drug dealers . "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. Houston pitmaster goes viral after hilarious TV interview, Houston is ugly, and I've never felt more at home, Astros GM Dana Brown has more praise team's top prospect, Turner: TEA is giving Houston ISD two optionsclose school or be taken over, Two ocelots were photographed crossing a road in rare South Texas sighting, Willie Nelson's new album is a lovely tribute to a fellow country legend. A handgun covered with gold and money sized to alleged financial agent of the drug "Cartel del Golfo", Manuel Alquisires Garcia, aka "El Meme" and also know as Agustin Sanchez Morua, are shown during his presentation to the press on September 12, 2011 in Mexico City. Coke was originally supposed to make you smarter or something. [most of his city is north of the border so that shouldnt be a surprise. Investigators found several guns inside the packages, as well as in a secret compartment in the paneling. Between all the illegal guns and millions in gold, jewelry and diamonds, there are armed guards on constant watch. 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. The Barrett M82 was a serious problem for security forces because its armor-piercing bullets can knock out the motors of reconnaissance vehicles and endanger helicopters, said aMexicanofficial, who spoke on condition of anonymity. 24 of 29 25 of 29 A handgun covered with gold and money sized to alleged financial agent of the drug "Cartel . Modern optics, including AimPoint types and the distinctive Vism ECO 434 model were seen. The main character, Franklin is brilliant. 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. One room of the museum is dedicated to narco culture. "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. By the way, where were these officials when the Obama administration was running guns into Mexico as part of Operation Fast and Furious? That leaves the military as the only ones able to battle thecartels.. Cartel forces seized a major regional capital city in broad daylight and defeated the national armed forces in open battle. Mexico remains a cautionary preview of what might happen in America if we adopted Mexican-style gun control.. California, by contrast, accounted for 90 guns, three percent of the total. Sept. 7, 2010 -- A shocking new report obtained by ABC News says that as many as three out of four guns used in crimes in Mexico and recovered and capable of being traced can be traced to gun . MLB legend makes surprise appearance at Astros' Spring Training, Hiker takes 'once-in-a-lifetime' photo at Brazos Bend State Park, Eric Gordon trade looking better and better for Houston Rockets, This Texas Hill Country town is the new, cooler Fredericksburg, This is what Houston looks like from space, Oops! 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. Cartel gunmen armed with AK-47s purchased in Arizona overwhelmed the police, killing eight. Hundreds of firearms on display before being destroyed at . Dear Mexico: clean up your own house before telling us how to take care of ours.. The Bushmaster .223 comes with a 30-round magazine, enabling the shooter to fire all 30 rounds, one for each pull of the trigger, in a minute or less. The customized gold-plated handgun of Jaime Gonzalez Duran, aka "Hummer", founder of a group of hitmen called the "Zetas", shown to the press at the hangar of the Federal Police in Mexico City, on November 7, 2008. Pass universal background checks, end loopholes: gunshow and Charleston. 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. ", Yvonne Hemsey/Hulton Archive/Getty Images. "It's a horrible epidemic, but it . All of the straw buyers were arrested in one fell swoop in 2011. They know how to pull the wool over your eyes.". Maybe, he'll see this and send a thank you card. quoteClown shoes.quote. A row of glass cases are filled with seized weapons. They want to disarm the USA as they arm who they want. That's the NRA position.". Latin American criminal gangs have embraced social media and messaging platforms to spread narco culture and sell drugs. 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. 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? So, thats bad, thats a horror. Miguel Diaz Calderon never made it out of Texas. I could have sworn that at one time there was a federal law that banned face masks, a law intended to force the KKK out into the open. In May 2008, Mexican federal police raided a suspected trafficker house in Culiacan, a long-standing drug hotbed in the Mexican state of Sinaloa. It depicts one cartel member dressed in a garish shirt, cowboy hat and belt buckle. I bet they have favorite beers and hand grenades, too. They are still covering for the Obama administration. If the laws actually worked, wouldnt Arizona, New Mexico, or Texas be the easier route? Officials found 17 handguns in his car. Vasquez was born in Mexico but raised his family in Dallas, where he ran a moving company with his three adult sons. As far as American guns being the best. 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. It is also one of the weapons of choice for drug cartels, according to the. DEA agents say the cartel was trying to instill fear in its enemies and woo new members. The Democrats gave them the guns. FN Herstal PS90 rifle: It also fires the 5.7X28mm round. Mexican Drug Cartels Agree: American-Made Guns Are the Best, Mexican drug and crime cartels prefer American-made guns. Why havent you established large numbers of military personnel inspecting every truck, train, cargo ship, private boat and aircraft entering the country? Last week, the Treasury sanctioned two Mexican businessmen and four Sinaloa Cartel members in connection with the illicit methamphetamine and fentanyl trade. The gun should not be in the hands of civilians, the official said. Thousands upon thousands of firearms are smuggled into Mexico from the U.S. each year. 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. All wars are fought with weapons, and the guns used to murder tens of thousands of people in the Mexican War on Drugs mostly come from America.From handguns,. He sent in the federal police along with army units in an attempt to eliminate high value . 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. Working together across 18 different countries over the course of 10 months, the consortium investigated the global networks of Mexican drug cartels and their political connections around the world. Two women were killed in the crossfire when rival gangs started shooting at a popular sidewalk restaurant in Tulum. They also discoveredmore than 10,000 rounds of ammunition hidden in an ice chest in the gas tankand inside the spare tire,court records show. Acosta and others like him across the. SALT LAKE CITY A Utah woman is heading to federal prison for buying dozens of high powered rifles for Mexican drug cartel members. https://tucson.com/news/national/mexican-drug-cartels-using-grenades/article_9bafe2d8-ecf2-5925-8e85-167e066dd2e9.html. In fact, according to Newsweek, cartel criminals view American guns as status symbols because, well, they work. In summer, a command intercepted a dozen tourists after being mistaken for members of a rival cartel. Tell you what, you let me have what the Cartels are able to get from the Mexican Military and Ill let you have what I have now. Its a weapon of war, added the official. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_Drug_War. Gunmen who left behind at least one M82riflewere seen spraying the armor-plated car ofpolicechief Omar Garcia Harfuch with high-velocity rounds. First manufactured in the 1980s, the M82 rose to prominence during the first Gulf War when it was adopted by theUS military. So, the ATF was like, "We'll show you! By Jared Olson. Cracked is up for TWO Webby Awards, for Best Humor Site and Best Video Entertainment! The weapons are sold to the cartels, often for three or four times the original price. Its compactness makes it easy to conceal and some versions can hold a 30-round magazine, made of lightweight polymer. 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. 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. I'm like, 'makes sense, he's a military kid.' Body armour and load-bearing equipment were used by many cartel members, including examples marked 'Marina' (Marines) or 'Polica Estatal' (State Police). Shut your pie hole Holder. 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. Homeland Security teamed with the ATF tolauncha confidential tip line asking for help from the public, displaying the number on about 200 billboards near the border,asking for information on illegal guns bound for Mexico. Serial numbers really do tell a story. 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. It's made it easier than ever to drive to any Texas gun shop and legally stockpile guns, whether or not the customers belong to a Mexican cartel. This article would have you believe the American guns are coming from civilian sources.. one point left out of the article is that the cartels also like American hand grenades. You have lost 4,020 Federal, State, and Municipal Police killed by the cartels. Im having a memory lapsewhich guns are made in Mexico, exactly? Try again Jethro your out of your league. October 19, 2022 The typical image of violent, heavily armed Mexican drug cartels tends to leave out one very important fact: Texas is the source for many of those guns. Cartels seek out military-grade weapons, he said: "The bigger the better.". 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. June 23, 2022, 4:35 PM. We can reduce the carnage if pols have the guts to act, Eric Holder (@EricHolder) August 5, 2019, Enough-time for real action. It is cheaper at gun outlets in the U.S. Beretta 9mm. And that region continues struggling with. Instead, the ATF lost 1,400 (or more!) [see the above; Israel, China, Brazil, and many other big arms makers also chip in plenty. 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. And we're on commission at the time, so all of us involved are like sweet! Answer (1 of 16): There a ton of AK and Russian type military machine guns (I've seen a Russian equivalent 12.6 MM of the .50 caliber machine gun mounted on a truck. 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 :). Even ballistic helmets were seen in use. In Mexico, the weapon has disrupted the balance of power between criminal groupsand poorly equippedpoliceforces, according to Romain Le Cour Grandmaison, Program Director at the Mexico and Central America Office of Noria, a think tank. Those associatesarrange the purchase of several guns keeping them atstash houses or handing them off to transporters ingas station parking lots or other neutral locations, Lestrange said. No it could not be right. Well short answer. Of course, thats not primary the message Newsweek and the mainstream media (not to mention Mexican officials) want readers to take away from their report. Bushmaster describes the AR-15 rifle, a civilian version of the U.S. military's standard-issue M-16, as intended "for law enforcement, security and private consumer use." ReporterKarolSurez contributed to this story. Thirty-four. But, gradually, their suspicions began to pile up " then, we started getting more and more phone calls over the weeks. 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. Same guys, different job. Get the best of Cracked sent directly to your inbox! But, one boy was a white boy who told me he had served. If you want to keep guns out of the country, you do not appear to be making any real effort at it. Violence is rampant across Mexico. We had four or five come in that first guy came in five or six times, saying he was starting a collection. 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. I would be one of the richest people on the planet. There, members oftheGulf Cartel and CJNGhave formed a partnership, Jones said. "These kids weren't sketchy looking dudes; they were all clean-cut, and some were Hispanic. Just look at the numbers for their drug war: The place is called La Leche and it continues to be one of Vallarta's tourist attractions. 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 . Follow reporter Beth Warrenon Twitter: @BethWarrenCJ. RELATED:Documents allege Texas DPS spying on Mexico. Why was President Biden talking about Utahs 2002 Winter Games at the White House? Another solid reason for the U.S. to pass universal back ground checks. Guns and munitions confiscated to 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. The California Maniac could just as easily bought a second hand gun and instead of killing people with it could have made handsome profit by selling it and more like it to Mexico because he is not connected by paperwork to what he is selling. Thanks for contacting us. "He never saw those guns," his attorney told The Courier Journal. You have entered an incorrect email address! You also said: This is a carousel. "And they're sending leads up to us to connect the dots.". Among Mexican traffickers, it has earned itself the nickname "cuerno de chivo" or "goat horn" because of its distinctive banana-shaped magazine. 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. I mean all the enforcement is on the American side, very little exists on the Mexican side. On the Shelf. I do like tacos though. I think thats pretty fair. Gold-plated, diamond-encrusted weapons are shown to the press after they were confiscated when the army seized a ranch in Zapopan, Mexico, Sunday, May 2, 2010. Then, he says, 'Oh, I've been interested in the Barrett.'