Where do I go to get a full auto machine gun and grenades?
What gun store is that?
I bet most of their guns came from the Mexican or Venezuelan Army
You and I both must have missed that aisle at the last gun show.
The supposition is that the predominant number of weapons being purchased here are diverting to criminals on both sides of the border.
Having some exposure to criminals through my line of work I would guesstimate that at least 95% of weapons purchased through US retailers or FFLs remain in the hands of lawful citizens, ( accounting for theft, etc). I have no idea of what kind of diversions of military, police or 3rd world arms are affecting Mexico.
I’ll take those odds here in the US.
I understand that Far Cry 2 is not a good authority on weapon smuggling, but I think Jackal Tape 03 is insightful:
It's a romantic notion that they all came out of the Soviet Union after the collapse, that was a win fall back in '89, maybe from '91...but that's all over. I move weapons, I profit from circulation; you get a ceasefire in Liberia, both sides disarmed, you think they slide two thousand tons of guns? No. They sell them to me. I resell them where ever the next war is starting.
"Those are Soviet Guns from 1999?"
Hm...well that's about half. The rest mostly come from old European armies. After they abandon their colonies in the '60s and '70s, you know, French guns, Dutch, Belgian...
"So some of these guns are very old? They have been sold, bought, and sold repeatedly?"
*laughs* They aren't bio-degradable. Only the dead are bio-degradable.
So there is probably lots of weapons on the black market.