Mexico, guns, and The LA Times again

[Gavin Twosome]

That's a Luger surrounded by P38's. I am not an expert on Lugers, but I wonder if that one wouldn't fetch a couple thousand $$?

The article also admits to Mexican government corruption, so how do we know that those 60+ year old guns had not been in that warehouse for years? None of them have the classic Russian capture re-blue! So I would also assume those P38's could be worth well over $1K each.

Ditto ,it's not a 1913 Navy but it Could be a more obscure one .

[fnman]

KFWB

KFWB news radio had a reporter in Mexico on Friday who was talking to the police and the Feds down there and he reported that most of the weapons were Chinese,Korean and from Guatemala with about twenty seven percent coming from the USA, and he pointed to the 90% number as bogus, At least the reporter was trying to be fair.

[bsim]

I wrote this to the article's author on Thursday night:

Hi Josh, I have a few comments about this piece:

“…the growing number of weapons being smuggled into Mexico comprise more than 90% of the seized firearms that can be traced by authorities there.”
Weapons from sources other than the US do not have serial numbers, and as such, aren’t traceable. They (non-US arms) are a larger source than US made weapons. Why aren’t those being addressed, rather than slanting that we are the source of “90%” of Mexico’s arms problems? Most readers will interpret the 90% number as thinking most of the cartels arms are smuggled from the US, which is incorrect.

“In the meantime, illegally obtained U.S. weapons -- including an increasing number of automatic rifles -- are being used to kill thousands…”
“Automatic rifles” are not produced in the US for civilian use (since 1986), and as such are now military only. If there truly are US serialized automatic weapons being found, they are either coming from the US or Mexican military. They are not being purchased at local gun stores and being smuggled. That government arms are being found (if they are) is MUCH more troubling. Where’s that angle?

It my belief that the issue is with the open border we share. If drugs can easily flow north, so can arms and money flow south. This is not an issue of our lax firearm laws, which this article seems to represent.

Thank you for taking the time to read this,

I haven't heard anything back yet...

[Werewolf1021]

I wrote this to the article's author on Thursday night:I haven't heard anything back yet...

Dont hold your breath. I emailed the guy when I first saw this article and I still haven't heard back.

[Nose Nuggets]

it is quite simply preposterous to think that some of the most well funded drug cartels on the planet are getting straw buyers to go to the US and buy semi-auto rifles and then smuggle them back. not only could cartels buy from corrupt Mexican LEO, they could just as easily get it from the equally corrupt Mexican military. both of those options aside, less we forget, they are well funded drug cartels. they could buy vast shipments from proper arms dealers. it boggles my mind to think people actually eat this kind of insane nonsense right up.

[Vacaville]

Maybe if the UN passes a resolution banning US arms shipments to Mexico and Jamaica we wouldn't have this problem.