What is it about this that our Congresscritters and other politicians can't seem to understand?
Posted on 12/29/2010 5:46:33 AM PST by Second Amendment First
In all of Mexico, there is only one gun store. The shop, known officially as the Directorate of Arms and Munitions Sales, is operated by the Mexican military. The clerks wear pressed green camouflage. They are soldiers.
The only gun store in Mexico is not very busy.
To go shopping for a gun in Mexico, customers must come to Mexico City - even if they live 1,300 miles away in Ciudad Juarez. To gain entry to the store, which is on a secure military base, customers must present valid identification, pass through a metal detector, yield to the security wand and surrender cellphones and cameras.
To buy a gun, clients must submit references and prove that their income is honestly earned, that their record is free of criminal charges and that their military obligations, if any, have been fulfilled with honor. They are fingerprinted and photographed. Finally, if judged worthy of owning a small-caliber weapon to protect home and hearth, they are allowed to buy just one. And a box of bullets.
Mexico has some of the toughest gun-control laws in the world, a matter of pride for the nation's citizens. Yet Mexico is awash in weapons.
President Felipe Calderon reported this month that Mexican forces have captured more than 93,000 weapons in four years. Mexican authorities insist that 90 percent of those weapons have been smuggled from the United States. The U.S. and Mexican governments have worked together to trace 73,000 seized weapons, but both refuse to release the results of the traces.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Mexico has some of the toughest gun-control laws in the world, a matter of pride for the nation's citizens. Yet Mexico is awash in weapons.
And we have laws against illegal immigration and illegal drugs, yet the US is awash in both, coming from Mexico.
Interesting that the results of gun traces are not being released. Could it be that most are untraceable with the exception of those from the US, and they are a small percentage of the total?
Really?
Fact is, 80-90% of the guns in Mexico are being funneled through china, and central american other countries that buy large quantities of legal weapons, or sold directly by corrupt members of the mexican military..
And from the corrupt police as well.
Well, I guess we should do Mexico a favor and seal the border.
Gee what a surprise - Mexico is helping democrat traitors try to grab guns.
Blaming U.S. gun shops for Mexico’s drug wars is like blaming the local drug store for prostitution.
LOL! I wonder if this guy is related to John Wilkes Booth?
What is it about this that our Congresscritters and other politicians can't seem to understand?
Well, I guess folks gotta find and cling to even the thinnest strands of pride, even if the source of that pride is based on outright lies and ignorance.
"...Mexican authorities insist that 90 percent of those weapons have been smuggled from the United States...but...refuse to release the results of the traces..."
More propaganda, but this time too thinly veiled. The farce that America is the cause of Mexican failure becomes more laughable every passing day, but that is not the crux of the above sentence. The true crux is that this lie will be used to further erode the freedoms and liberties that we enjoy; it is merely a tool that statist and totalitarians will use to further their agenda.
Meanwhile the feds are putting new limits on long gun purchases and putting more scrutiny on gun shops along the border in our country.
The farce that America is the cause of Mexican failure becomes more laughable every passing day, but that is not the crux of the above sentence. The true crux is that this lie will be used to further erode the freedoms and liberties that we enjoy; it is merely a tool that statist and totalitarians will use to further their agenda.
No violence in Mexico? Could have fooled me. Maybe all of their violent criminals are in the US illegally.
Also, it’s quite telling that they refuse to release the results of the seized gun traces. It must not fit their agenda (lies).
“No violence in Mexico? Could have fooled me”
dearth [ durth ]
noun
Definition:
lack: a scarcity of something
Example: no dearth of violence
What wars has Mexico fought in:
Most wars in Mexico have been of internal nature, or imposed upon Mexico by foreign powers, such as the United States and France. The only notable exception was on WW2, when Mexico fought for the Allies against Japanese forces on the Pacific.
Mexican War of Independence (1810-1821)
Central American Federation War of independence (1822-1823)
Texas War of Independence (1835-1836)
First Franco-Mexican War (”The Pastry War”) (1838)
Yucatan Secession (1839-1843)
Mexican-American War (1846-1847)
Yucatan Rebellion (1847)
Second Franco-Mexican War (1862-1867)
Yaqui Indian War (1899-1904)
Mexican Revolution (1910-1922)
US Occupation of Veracruz (1914)
US Punitive Expedition (1916-1917)
World War Two (1942-1945)
Chiapas Uprising (1994-Present)
EPR Marxist Guerrilla Conflict (1996-Present)
Mexico’s Drug War (2006-Present)
The last three are ongoing, low-intensity conflicts, meaning no outright war between the opposing parties has ever happened, but it doesn’t mean casualties don’t exist. For instance, since the Mexico’s Drug War was proclaimed by Mexican President Felipe Calderon Hinojosa on December 11, 2006, more than 30,000 people have been killed by confrontations between federal, state and local police forces against drug cartel members.
Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_wars_has_Mexico_fought_in#ixzz19VeFp4fq
I for one didn’t know they fought in WW2.
“Could it be that most are untraceable with the exception of those from the US, and they are a small percentage of the total?”
Yes.
You can find golden AK-47's like this one confiscated from a Mexican drug cartel from any American gun shop /S.
¡ Eff mehico !
http://www.avalanchepress.com/MexicanAirForce.php
Big whoop.
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