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| Chock Full O' Agenda: The Wilson Center Mexico Institute Report |
| 2010-09-11 |
| It is interesting that this report See the link: PDF. Sorry has been prepared just prior to Congress' lame duck session in which preparations are being made for advancing some of the more odious aspects of our homegrown socialists. The assault rifle ban in the US, with this report, is probably going to be front and center. The report linked has made the national wires in Mexico but is only a matter of days before the US press picks it up. Among other things, from what I can tell from just scanning the report attempts to show how a large percentage (up to 25% now) of weapons seized in Mexico originate from sales in the US including US gun shop and from gun show sales; in other words, from illegal sales of legal weapons. The report also appears to be rhetorically (and maybe even factually) dishonest about gun traffic from the US to Mexico. For example, one part of the report claims that most 40mm grenades found in Mexico are made in the US, as if they are commercially sold for Mexican gang use. The report fails to note 40mm grenades are only available to American security apparatus such as the police and to the military, as are both the launcher attachment to the AR-15 as well as the old M-79 grenade launcher. I suspect the report is also full other other misleading errors and deliberate distortions, the biggest being that all the arms which wind up in Mexico are there because of illegal, not legal activity. If Rantburgers care about their weapons for personal defense as well as for hunting they will hammer hard on the theme in forums and elsewhere that the weapons which are flowing to Mexico, wind up there because if illegal activity and an unmonitored border. Punishing US citizens for the failure of its government is unacceptable. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #1 About a year ago I had occasion to visit the San Diego Sector and San Ysidro Port of Entry to discuss Homeland Security issues with senior Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) officials. They confirmed again that Mexican Customs officials rarely did any southbound inspections of vehicles entering Mexico, literally not even slowing them down as they drove into Mexico. Occasionally US officials would target some southbounds and looked for weapons and cash. The presence of handguns from the US in Mexico is attributable to legitimate sales to US nationals who then illegally sell them to narcotrafficking groups for a cash profit. BUT...the significant automatic arms involved in most Mexican drug violence AK-47s and now the emergence of hand grenades, ovrwhelming appear to stem from illegal arms shipments of military weapons entering Mexico from other directions. This report is agenda driven BS by Obama as a part of their gun control efforts via external treaty agreements, hoping to trump the recent 2nd amandment decisions. |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2010-09-11 13:43 |