“Similar to the Reese case in Deming NM. If the PHX gunshops had not videotaped their ATF “strongarm” meetings, they would have gone to jail too.”
Yes, that is what I was thinking as well. One wonders how much of this stuff has been going on for decades before recorders became cheap, small, and reliable.
The biggest reason that it did not happen as much under Republican administrations is that the MSM has been willing to do nearly anything to crucify them (perhaps since Roosevelt) and quite willing to overlook anything by “Progressives”.
Well, gun smuggling to Mexico has been very popular since I was a kid. I grew up with a guy who sold guns into Mexico before all the strict gun laws. He had a shipment for someone who changed his mind on the delivery date so he sold them to another guy, the other guy found out and had him killed and dismembered.
It’s a border town it’s seedy and they smuggle anything worth smuggling, both ways. I’ve never heard of any official south of the border who wasn’t corrupt and there are a lot of corrupt American officials. You don’t really trust anyone.
I’m sure it isn’t any different than many towns we just know more than those who live in larger towns, we know the bad guys and the good guys.