I wish I still had the article, but about a year ago I first read about this, and it described how some of the earliest action involved ambushing cartel members and confiscating their equipment.
Basically a small drug shipment with 4-5 armed guards runs into 20+ citizen defense members. Even if the guards have full auto, and the citizens hunting guns, the odds aren't in the guards favor and most of them surrendered.
If you make a practice of it, you could have a decently armed core group in a relatively short time.
Especially since it appears they raided the armories of corrupt police and even a few cartel armories over the past year.
Certainly rival cartels would be idiots not to try too support action that weakens the Templar Cartel, and the so called leaders of the "Vigilantes" as our news insists on calling them have admitted to uncovering attempts to infiltrate their group by cartels.
The scary thing is according to some reports I've read, the Templar cartel originally started as a similar vigilante group and became corrupted over time replacing the cartel they formed to eliminate.
Basically a small drug shipment with 4-5 armed guards runs into 20+ citizen defense members. Even if the guards have full auto, and the citizens hunting guns, the odds aren't in the guards favor and most of them surrendered.
If you make a practice of it, you could have a decently armed core group in a relatively short time.
Especially since it appears they raided the armories of corrupt police and even a few cartel armories over the past year.
Certainly rival cartels would be idiots not to try too support action that weakens the Templar Cartel, and the so called leaders of the "Vigilantes" as our news insists on calling them have admitted to uncovering attempts to infiltrate their group by cartels.
The scary thing is according to some reports I've read, the Templar cartel originally started as a similar vigilante group and became corrupted over time replacing the cartel they formed to eliminate.