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Mexican Cartels
At Andrew Breitbart's new Big Hollywood blog--
Dan Gifford has "The ‘America Is Arming Mexico’s Drug Gangs’ Lie", an excellent post.
Jeff Jena has posted "Backdooring the Second Amendment" on the same topic.
UPDATE: here's a summary of Mexico's gun laws. Given how strict they are, I'm sure they have no real problems. I mean, unless gun laws don't work or something unbelievable like that.
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Hmm. Let's see if I have this straight. I'm the head of a Mexican drug cartel and I want to arm my soldiers. I have two choices:
Send people to America to buy retail, over the counter, semi-automatic AR-15 rifles at $1200.00 per copy and up, and .223 ammunition at $1.00+ per round, when it's possible to find them given the extreme current shortages of both (and similar) items, and come back empty handed, keeping in mind that it's not possible to legally buy fully automatic weapons of any kind, to say nothing of hand grenades, rocket launchers and rockets, anti-aircraft missiles, etc. Of course, I'll have to go to the trouble of smuggling any and all of these items back across the border.
Or I can use my criminal contacts to buy fully automatic military rifles on the black market in any quantity I want, for a fraction of the price of any American weapon or munition, which also includes all the much more destructive goodies I can't find in America at any price. And the dealers will likely be happy to deliver!
Yeah, I can see how the ATF and congresscritters think all of the weapons in Mexico are coming from Mom and Pop's Gun store in anytown USA.
Here is another article worth reading.
http://narcosphere.narconews.com/notebook/bill-conroy/2009/03/legal-us-arms-exports-may-be-source-narco-syndicates-rising-firepower