Cartels getting arsenals in US

[bgelectrician]

Thought it was an interesting article:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41257218/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts

[SScott]

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[Wildeman_13]

How is this crap... "

Jared Loughner is accused of taking advantage of those laws to acquire a Glock 19 semi-automatic pistol and at least two high-capacity magazines at an Arizona gun store despite a history of mental troubles and drug use. U.S. agents say Mexico's drug cartels have similarly exploited the laws.

in any way related to Straw purchasing? I was under the impression that Douchnozzle bought his Glock "legally". And by legally I mean there is no database currently that tracks any of this outside of a criminal event.

ETA: Just noticed the name of one of the stores that sold 20 AKs to one guy... I bought my pistol from Lone Wolf.

[robcoe]

Federal officials say they have new evidence that Mexico's most violent drug cartels are exploiting U.S. guns laws to acquire massive quantities of assault rifles and other firearms for use in their war against the Mexican government.

Huh? where can I legally buy an assault rifle in the US? I thought they were banned for normal people.

[audihenry]

Huh? where can I legally buy an assault rifle in the US? I thought they were banned for normal people.

My guess is they buy standard AKs and other guns and convert them to auto. If you run a drug cartel, I'm sure you have access to people who could do this for you.

[robcoe]

My guess is they buy standard AKs and other guns and convert them to auto. If you run a drug cartel, I'm sure you have access to people who could do this for you.

Then they did not buy assault rifles in the US, they made them in Mexico

[The Sauce]

I thought Arsenal wasn't Ca friendly?

[bgelectrician]

The media can twist anything and without the facts so it is all B.S and we just have to keep fighting to keep our rights so A Holes like Jared Loughner that come along and make the Government try to pass new laws. Man will always find a way to harm another whether it be by Bomb, Gun, Knife, Hammer, Rock or Stick.

[asme]

Yes, I'm sure the cartels went over to Elmer Fudd's gun shop in AZ and bought that M2HB and all those suppressed Krinkovs (with 8-inch barrels) through completely legal means.

I mean, it only makes sense.

[Army]

My guess is they buy standard AKs and other guns and convert them to auto. If you run a drug cartel, I'm sure you have access to people who could do this for you.

Why buy legal guns, with legal paperwork, on federal forms with background checks, then go through all the trouble of machining and converting the relatively few rifles you can buy at one time...


...when you can simply use your billions in drug money and buy any amount of real AK's or M16's from just about anywhere in south america, asia, or africa, or europe?

They don't get them here.

[Vanguard]

Why buy legal guns, with legal paperwork, on federal forms with background checks, then go through all the trouble of machining and converting the relatively few rifles you can buy at one time...


...when you can simply use your billions in drug money and buy any amount of real AK's or M16's from just about anywhere in south america, asia, or africa, or europe?

They don't get them here.

This.

You can get a real AK for a can of Spam and a t-shirt is some African countries. Why the hell would the cartels be paying $500.00+ apiece for them here and still have to convert them to full auto?

They aren't getting their weapons from the U.S. That's just a ploy by gun grabbers to try to enact more B.S. anti-gun legislation here.

[Jorge]

I'm sure the cartels have huge crates of ammo and full auto arms coming in that they need a forklift just to move them. Its a shame so many people believe the media's fabrication and nonsense instead of doing research on how the actual world works.

[Cali-Shooter]

If this article has a grain of truth in it that Americans are "straw purchasing" for Cartels, then those f'ing idiots are ruining it for the rest of us by giving the anti's ammo to push for more gun laws. F***!

[joefreas]

I'm sure more laws will fix it-

[DREADNOUGHT78]

Hmmmmm.Some DRACO's and maybe even a few KRINK's in the photo! Sad I would love a few of those rifles (pistols) myself!