Mexican detained with anti-aircraft machine gun

AP on SFGate.com ^ | 4/14/09 | E. Eduardo Castillo - ap

[the_Watchman]

A .50-caliber on your SUV roof could lift “road rage” to a new level!

[Snickering Hound]

Cruz said the confiscated .50-caliber, anti-aircraft machine gun can fire 800 rounds per minute and is capable of penetrating armor from more than 5,000 feet.

Yeah, I've seen those in Sam's Club next to the paper towels, obviously they buy them there and smuggle them across the border.

[carcraft]

I guess it was one of those guns bought in the USA using the Gun Show Loop Hole and smuggled into Mexico!!

[Obadiah]

Oh, and I'm quite certain this anti-aircraft gun was smuggled across the border, probably from El Paso. Just ask anyone in the corrupt MSM!

/s

[MHGinTN]

I used to think I’d like to have a megaphone attached to the outside of my vehicle, to blast idiot drivers. I gave up on that years ago, but with the fools talking on their cell phones and driving like they’re riding with someone not driving the car, I just might actually mount one on the passenger door!

[omega4179]

I saw one at Wal-Mart a little pricey though.

[TeleStraightShooter]

I've seen them on flatbeds before....

... but a SUV?

[Sir Clancelot]

In fact, if you buy one at any Sam’s Club in Tejas in the month of Abril, you get a free sombrero and a coupon for a Texican whopper at Burger King.

[oneolcop]

Spendy to shoot too. About $4.00 a round. Let’s see; $4.00/rd X 800/min = $3200.00 just to shoot cans.

[SwinneySwitch]

Ping!!!!

If you want on, or off this S. Texas/Mexico ping list, please FReepMail me.

[freedumb2003]

“Mexican detained with anti-aircraft machine gun”

I didn’t know we were detaining Mexicans with anti-aircraft machine guns. We should have started that a long time ago and I hope we keep doing so.

[omega4179]

I remember when it was $1 a round and nothing was chambered for it, now .308 is $1 a round

[Gritty]

I tried to pick up one of these at our local Gun Show last weekend but they were all sold out before I got there. They probably got shipped right to Mexico.

Bummer...

[nomad]

I suppose the rats will say that was bought in the US.

[NYFreeper]

I've seen this report on Fox News.com where they describe a .50 cal machine gun. But if the “anti-aircraft” gun they confiscated was the one shown in the picture, then they got it wrong. The picture shows a .30 cal Browning machine gun. An anti-aircraft gun for WWI, but not by today's standards.

[Brucifer]

Even Sam's Club is out of anti-aircraft guns these days. I just hate to think that our anti-aircraft guns are going to Mexico.

And I don't know where you live, but a lot the Sam's I know have their parking lots filled with license plates from Nuevo Leon and Tamaulipas as well as Texas.

It jest ain't right, the Mezzicans is buying all our anty-aircraft machine guns. They should be a law agin' it! (Sarcasm off)

[americanophile]

"next to the paper towels"

hehe!

[Vendome]

They must be concept weapons because the San Francisco Chronicle did not release any pictures.

Or maybe they were to scary?

[sscoots969]

Pictures of the actual “cache” linked on Drudge. Girl is sort of cute - then there are maybe 5 rifles and 350 mags.