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Thread: Arming the Cartels: The Inside Story of a Texas Gun-Smuggling Ring

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    Just like the gangsters and bank robbers in the 30s, criminals usually prefer to steal their weapons, often from military or police armories/stations. Or buy stolen weapons at a big discount. If you are in business of murdering, kidnapping, smuggling and drugs then why would you bother with guns bought legally with a paper trail at retail? There may be a tiny fraction actual acquired through straw purchases, but I wager the vast majority are stolen from armories, PDs, individuals, or smuggled from other countries from where they were stolen or sold under the table.
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    Arming the Cartels: The Inside Story of a Texas Gun-Smuggling Ring

    I have to lol at the entirety of the American gen pop who thinks anything we do CONUS is going to make an impact on the Narco Cartels getting weapons.

    They run multimillion dollar empires and have transnational contacts all across the globe.

    They’re going to get weapons.

    Any politician or public official who says otherwise is a flat out liar.


    As for guns going south of the border sure it happens. Out bound inspections are weak or non existent at most POEs. We’re playing both sides of this.


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    Why can we invade Iraq but not Mexico?

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    Mexico doesn’t have any or enough oil?


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    Quote Originally Posted by jpmuscle View Post
    Mexico doesn’t have any or enough oil?


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    I see what you are saying but if oil was the reason for Iraq why is it not cheaper?

    They have stolen a lot of our money though and the world is sort of overpopulated and come on they’ve been asking if not begging for a Number 6 to be run on them since the Alamo.

    Put me in President and the deserts and barrios will be scaped by rows of crucified dead.

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    40 years of darkness......

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    Because we can’t even invade a third world country and plunder it for its resources competently?


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    Quote Originally Posted by jpmuscle View Post
    Because we can’t even invade a third world country and plunder it for its resources competently?


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    I blame hippies.

    These other places don’t mind plundering. Russia straight up Deebo’d Crimea.

    What is really stopping us? Let’s do it man. Let’s do the whole village!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Firefly View Post
    I see what you are saying but if oil was the reason for Iraq why is it not cheaper?
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    Maybe it is cheaper?

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    Quote Originally Posted by jpmuscle View Post
    I have to lol at the entirety of the American gen pop who thinks anything we do CONUS is going to make an impact on the Narco Cartels getting weapons.

    They run multimillion dollar empires and have transnational contacts all across the globe.

    They’re going to get weapons.

    Any politician or public official who says otherwise is a flat out liar.

    As for guns going south of the border sure it happens. Out bound inspections are weak or non existent at most POEs. We’re playing both sides of this.

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    Yeah, they will get guns. I think it's just a matter of convenience in getting them from the United States through the very porous border. I'd guess the odds of getting caught are higher if you're trying to smuggle them in by boat.
    IIRC the majority of the guns going south are handguns, but it's not like you need a mechanical engineer to turn semi-auto rifles into full auto once they're across the border, either.

    Quote Originally Posted by jpmuscle View Post
    Mexico doesn’t have any or enough oil?

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    They have a shit-ton of oil, but it's so poorly managed by PEMEX that you almost never hear about it. Their state-run oil company is about as competent as Venezuela's.

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    /\ Thank you.
    (1) The US has repeatedly invaded Mexico. Depending on the definition, a half dozen times. Guess what never improves Mexico? Anything.
    (2) Mexico has plenty of oil. Big issue in the last administration and last election. Low oil prices globally likely contributed to the economic importance of the drug cartels over the last decade. Historically, Gringos built the Mexican railroads and oil industry; those industries peaked the day before they were nationalized.

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