U.S.A. – -(Ammoland.com)- “As President Trump wants to fight drugs and migrants pouring into the U.S., Mexico is reeling from bloodshed fueled by American guns, bullets and grenades pouring into Mexico,” San Diego’s KPBS News reported Tuesday. “More than 33,000 people were murdered in Mexico last year, an all-time high. The police chief of Tijuana, Mexico’s most violent city, told KPBS ‘nearly all’ of the more than 2,000 weapons seized in the city since 2016 were American-made: AK-47s, AR-15s, Glocks and more.”
They’re getting American grenades? Really?
Jefe Marco Antonio Sotomayor says the guns are coming in from the U.S. because of our “weak gun laws.” One of the source states he blames is #1 Brady-rated California. He says there is “no way for people to buy them” in Mexico because there’s only one gun store, it’s controlled by the army, they restrict what people can buy, impose a six-month background check and they maintain a federal registry.
Disregard for a moment allegations that “corruption is deeply embedded within the municipal and state police forces in Tijuana.” If the chief says so, it’s got to be America’s fault.
If so, it’s an admission that the four Southwest border state multiple long gun transfer reporting requirements imposed by the Obama administration didn’t work. It’s also an admission that laws forbidding transfers to prohibited persons like criminal aliens, which also apply to private sales, don’t work either. Neither do background checks for dealer sales going through NICS. Ditto for waiting periods and registration, by including California in the mix…
“About 70 percent of the 15,316 weapons submitted to the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) by Mexican authorities nationwide in 2017 were traceable to the U.S.,” the KPBS article continues.
Do they really want to play this game again?
When gun-grabbers first started throwing around that claim, they were assuring us it was “95 to 100 percent.” The con they’re pulling is limiting numbers to what is being submitted for tracing. The total population of guns recovered but not submitted is much larger. And the total number of guns in the hands of Mexico’s warring cartels equips armies.
Speaking of which, since KPBS brought up “grenades,” who thinks the cartels get their weapons onesie-twosie from U.S. gun stores and gun shows? How about their “U.S.-military issued rifles, machine guns, grenade launchers and explosives”?
In reality, many of the weapons are obtained from police, Army deserters and corrupt administrators.
As I explained in a 2013 report:
“In January 2011, news reports explained not only how weapons were being smuggled into Mexico across its southern border, but even identified the criminal enterprise behind the operation: Los Zetas. As the gang was started by defecting military and has been abetted along the way by cartel/police alliances and corruption extending into the highest offices, there’s also a largely unexplored diversion of U.S. weapons approved for transfer to the Mexican government by our State Department.”
“Those weapons are being used by drug cartels to enforce their business, to go after law enforcement, Mexican authorities and innocent civilians,” Ernesto Diaz, an assistant special agent in charge with the ATF, weighed in for KPBS. The thing is, he’s intentionally bolstering the meme that it’s America’s fault via “U.S.-based smugglers.” That way, politicians and the media can exploit Mexican violence to step up American demand for citizen disarmament.
Good ol’ ATF. This was exactly the rhetoric when Operation Fast and Furious “gunwalking” got its start, as a shortcut to spook the herd into agreeing “something must be done.” Eric Holder was hoping for a semi-auto ban.
Still, seeing as how Democrats, their media cheerleaders, and the Mexican government are once more in a lather over accusations about U.S. guns in the hands of Mexico’s homicidal underworld, perhaps a bipartisan, commonsense reasonable restriction through compromise is in order:
How about if both governments enforce the damn border?
About David Codrea:
David Codrea is the winner of multiple journalist awards for investigating/defending the RKBA and a long-time gun owner rights advocate who defiantly challenges the folly of citizen disarmament. He blogs at “The War on Guns: Notes from the Resistance,” is a regularly featured contributor to Firearms News, and posts on Twitter: @dcodrea and Facebook.
Wow. You guys are fired up (pun intended).
There were many us guns sent across the borders during the two (or three?) fast & furious schemes. Eric Holder and Barry Soetoro should be canonized in Mexico for arming that cesspool. They probably sent military weapons as well (why were all the federal agencies accumulating all that firepower and where is it now?).
I say we quit giving them guns and just give them the bullets… We could keep the peace out to 1000 yards from our border easily. The rest of Mexico can tear itself apart. I won’t miss it.
You don’t think if they didn’t get them from us China and our Russia would be cashing in just like they did right after those two plane accidents that in five to ten years we’ll be told it was Russia that hi-jacked those computers so they could sell their planes, we live in a dog eat dog world as if you haven’t noticed.
Just more bs from gun grabbers wanting to strip us of the second amendment so the liberal bastards in Washington
Can take complete control of this country.
Well to be honest they are right . I already paid my time in a federal prison for smuggling gun to the Mexican side. Where I used to get those? Long story but is a big connection. Buyers use to pass them through the desert. Trailers . Few years ago we didn’t have no problem at all passing the border the Mexican government just need our ID reason of why I’m visiting and that was all. I’m talking when the Z use to run the show in tamaulipas. But also here in United states it’s very easy and cheap to… Read more »
another good reason to close the border to keep our guns out of the hands of the cartel in Mexico.. Who was it that lost a shipment of gun to the cartel a few years ago wasn’t the BATF that done that
Mexico should help build the wall so they won’t have to put up with the influences of the US. But who really cares what Mexico wants? The wall would save us from so many of these lawbreakers from coming here. By the way, if US companies weren’t so greedy they wouldn’t be building products there. I won’t even buy a box of cereal that says made in Mexico because you have no idea what measures are taken to insure no contaminants are in the food or rat chit. We are a whole nother country with very different views and different… Read more »
If this is what officials of Mexico want to claim then they should be coughing up support and funding for the wall?
If the demand for firearms is so great in Mexico thier government sould make them legal for all non criminals. I have heared that 25 percent of households in Tijuana have firearms, the vast number of these are illegal. This fosters corruption and makes the law a joke.
First off, why would anyone believe anything a Mexican official says? They’re more corrupt, or at least more blatant about it, than U.S. Government officials. Second, why would anyone believe anything the BATFE says? They’re more corrupt than Mexican government officials. It looks like Mexico returning seized American guns to the BATFE is nothing more than a Lend-Lease program like the U.S. had with Britain during WWII, since the BATFE (and Holder with O’buckwheat’s approval) provided Mexico with most of the guns in the first place (Fast & Furious).
These GUN GRABBERS expect U.S. to act like their little sheeple they have under their control. I am 68 live very close to the Mexico border and haul oil field freight. I have lived here all my life and Mexico has been corrupt all my life but is way worse today than when I was in high school and college. While making a delivery close to the Rio Grande on a canal used for watering crops we found a flat bottom aluminum boat in that boat was 2 AK-47s and a duffle bag. Not wanting to get shot we called… Read more »