Mexico Says Drug Gangs Buy Arms Like 'Candy' in US

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This is troubling, given the close relationship that Bush enjoys with President Fox of Mexico.

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=domesticNews&storyID=5521713

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico complained on Saturday that U.S. authorities allow Mexican drug gangs to buy arms in the United States "as if they were candy" due to lax controls of gun sales in border states.
The Mexican attorney general's office said Mexican gangs make drug runs into the United States in light aircraft and return loaded up with weapons.

"Unfortunately, the United States does not have adequate control of guns shops in the border area and they sell arms as if they were candy," senior prosecutor Jose Luis Santiago Vasconcelos told a news conference.

He said the attorney general's office is working with the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives against arms trafficking.

Mexico is particularly concerned about arms like the Barrett .50 caliber rifle. he said. The semi-automatic weapon, dubbed "The Widowmaker," can penetrate armored vehicles and aircraft.

"The big problem is that this type of weapon does not have adequate control in the United States. The trafficking of arms from the United States to Mexico unfortunately costs a lot of lives," said Vasconcelos, head of the organized crime unit.

A Barrett .50 caliber was among a number of assault weapons seized in a raid that captured the alleged main hit man of the infamous Arellano Felix drug gang in the border city of Tijuana on Thursday.

The suspect, Mario Alberto Rivera, was wanted for the murder of a journalist in the city who campaigned against the drug cartels, which smuggle marijuana, cocaine and other narcotics across the border into the United States.
 
The Mexican attorney general's office said Mexican gangs make drug runs into the United States in light aircraft and return loaded up with weapons.
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Wonder how they're doing that. I'll bet they're not buying them from an FFL. And they're sure not buying via PPT in places like California. Hm. Must be that gun show loophole thing.
 
Somehow I don't take very seriously any complaints from Mexican authorities about drug gangs.


Clean up your own corrupt mess, Mexico, THEN talk to us.

:barf:
 
Maybe they should stop letting people cross the border into mexico if they consider our guns such a problem.

I wouldn't object at all if Mexicans who earn money in our economy spend it in our economy rather than taking it back home to mexico to fund the mexican economy, fund crime, or fund illegal incursions into the U.S. (indirectly... they send money home to family, the family pays coyotes to take them across the border).
 
The Mexican attorney general's office said Mexican gangs make drug runs into the United States in light aircraft and return loaded up with weapons.

"Unfortunately, the United States does not have adequate control of guns shops in the border area and they sell arms as if they were candy," senior prosecutor Jose Luis Santiago Vasconcelos told a news conference.
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I guess the US could reply with, "Unfortunately, Mexico does not have adequate control of drug smugglers in the border area and they sell drugs as if they were candy."

If they can't sell the dope, they can't make the money to buy anything in the US.
 
I wonder if the same people involved in obtaining illicit substances for recreational use would have channels to obtain illicit arms for whatever use? :confused:
 
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