Here’s an article about guns going to Mexico...the cartels have their ‘anchor babies’ and winners of the last amnesty working for them. The problem is NOT our guns, it is Mexico’s population entrenched in this country.
A Houston man was sentenced Friday to just over eight years in prison for helping buy more than 100 military-style firearms, some of which ended up in the hands of Mexico’s violent drug cartels.
Prosecutors say John Phillip Hernandez was one of the main members of an organization of 23 people who purchased 339 weapons in a 15-month period. At least 40 of the weapons have been recovered in Mexico and three have been found in Guatemala, according to court documents.
Hernandez was sentenced after pleading guilty in July to one count of making a false statement to a federal firearms licensee.
Buying weapons is legal in Texas, but the purchaser must fill out a government form that indicates whether the purchaser plans to keep the gun for himself or give it to a third party. Hernandez claimed the guns were for himself.
Prosecutor Mark White said Hernandez knew that the guns he bought, or had others buy for him, at Houston-area gun dealers in 2006 and 2007 were going to Mexican drug cartel members. Informants indicated Hernandez told them the guns would be going to Mexico and that they overheard him talking about the Zetas, the Gulf cartel’s infamous hit men, White said.
Wake Up America!
“Buying weapons is legal in Texas, but the purchaser must fill out a government form that indicates whether the purchaser plans to keep the gun for himself or give it to a third party.”
Do you advocate making the purchase of weapons illegal in Texas?
If so, we shall have no further discussion.