it's gonna get a LOT worse before it gets a little better
Posted on 08/14/2014 6:23:11 PM PDT by jazusamo
Mexican drug cartels, whose trafficking efforts into the U.S. have grown bolder amid the border crisis, are increasingly utilizing a frightening weapon in their arsenal: the hand grenade.
Whether packed with explosives, hollowed out and filled with steel to give them authentic heft or even used to deliver handwritten death threats, grenades are turning up in greater frequency in encounters with suspected cartel members, according to law enforcement authorities and border experts. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials confirmed to FoxNews.com that they’ve seen a “trend increase” involving the devices along the entire southwest border, although details were not disclosed due to ongoing investigations.
“The reason you’re seeing so many more [grenades] this year is because much more heavily-armed drug shipments are coming into the United States,” said James Phelps, an assistant professor in the Department of Security Studies and Criminal Justice at Angelo State University in Texas. “With Border Patrol so heavily distracted doing paperwork and watching the mass flood of people coming into the country, they don’t have as much time to do what they used to do — drug interdiction.”
As a result, in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, just across the Rio Grande from Laredo, Texas, bystanders can hear a grenade or two “go off every night,” Phelps told FoxNews.com. The devices, which sell for up to $500 on the Mexican black market, are primarily surplus military grenades obtained by cartels in Central America, where weapons from the civil wars in El Salvador and Nicaragua remain readily available.
“The cartels buy them up in mass when they’re found, just like they do with the rest of their guns and artillery,” Phelps continued. “We’ve seen it all across Mexico and we’ve seen it in Central America. It’s not going to be long until we see it in our country.”
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Even better:
Buy the grenades!
Despite what the media narrative says, most of Mexico’s illicit arms are either funneled from Central American governments or are imports from Asia — not that little things like facts stop leftist agitators in the left from trying to blame America’s guns for Mexico’s Chinese, Korean, and Mexican Army arms.
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The drug lords, otherwise known as Mexican businessmen, probably have representatives dealing with Holder’s people to establish good supply lines.
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Beat me to it :-) Yes, must be official F&F grenades!!!
Bad Bad News.
Agreed, build the fence or wall!
In fact fast and furious did involve the authorities deliberately letting go back to Mexico a very major buyer and re-militarizer of DEWAT hand-grenades.
They have them cuz Barry WANTED them to have them.
Most of the rest they got from Guatemala and Venezuela, if memory serves.
I hear the cartels are also buying up large quantities of horse shoes too.
it's gonna get a LOT worse before it gets a little better
Heard at a Tijuana fireworks store in the near future:
“Crate of M-67s?”
“Hey, just what you see, señor.”
Bump.
That fits into Holder's Fast and Furious scheme.
Who do they think they are, American police SWAT Teams?
It’s long past time to close the grenade show loophole.
Well, that makes sense given that such guns would likely be cheap.
You guys likely figure right. Holder did run or walk grenade bodies and parts to the Mexican cartels.
"Operation Grenade walker (also known as the Mexican Grenade Scandal) the “whistleblower” and journalist’s name for the DOJ incident whereby some 2000 components of bomb making equipment were deliberately allowed to “walk” to the Sinaloa cartel in Mexico. The first case on record was perpetrated by an individual by the name of Jean Batiste Kingery, who was arrested, and then inexplicably released by the BATFE on the orders of AG Holder’s DOJ at the Arizona-Mexico border, while in the act of successfully smuggling over one hundred grenade parts and other bomb making equipment into Mexico. "
Find or make explosive filler for the grenades then shazam!
And a article.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/grenade-walking-part-of-gunwalker-scandal/
Only on high-capacity grenades that are painted black and scary looking.
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