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Mayhem in Monterrey: 4 die

2011-03-15

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Four armed suspects were killed and two others were wounded in three separate shooting incidents involving Mexican security forces in and near Monterrey, Nuevo Leon.

Four unidentified armed suspects were killed in a gunfight against a detachment of the Mexican Army in China, Nuevo Leon Saturday afternoon. The unit was dispatched to the location after after a call went out about armed men in the area near Ranch Corral Blanco. Suspects fired on the unit as soon as it arrived. Four armed suspects died when soldiers returned gunfire. At the location soldiers released four unidentified kidnap victims, two adults and two children. Detained were two unidentified female suspects. Seized were 16 firearms, 180 magazines, 6,000 rounds of ammunition, four vehicles, 22 black trimmings, 6 tactical vests and various radio equipment.

One armed suspect was detained following an ambush on two Nuevo Leon state police agents Monday. Suspects aboard a Ford sedan fired weapons on two Seguridad Publica del Estado (SPE) agents near the intersection of calles Senda de La Paz and Paseo de La Luz, precipitating a brief pursuit. Alan Ricardo, 17, was arrested following the chase. Another unidentified suspect escaped detention.

One armed suspect and one civilian minor male were wounded in a shooting in Guadalupe, Nuevo Leon early Sunday morning. Suspects aboard Chevrolet X-Trail SUV fired on a Mexican Army detachment on calle Rio Antua in the Dos Rios colony. The subsequent pursuit ended on Avenida Israel Cavazos in front of an auto service facility when the driver was hit by gunfire. Two accomplices in the vehicle fled the scene and were not detained. Aboard the abandoned vehicle soldiers found eight Nextel brand radios. one of them still broadcasting. Later, military personnel were flagged down by an unidentified taxi driver who claimed his son was hit by stray gunfire, and had been taken to a local hospital for treatment.

Posted by:badanov

#4 In Mexican weapons seizure lists since I have been doing Mexican drug war news, the word trimmings kept coming up without explanation, and it wasn't until a few days ago that I found out what furniture was in relation to a weapon, on an Accuracy International sniper rifle web site, of all places.

Lo these many months I just kept the reference out of the lists because I didn't know that they were. And now I suspect that trimmings are the same as furniture, a word I had seen in weapons seizure lists only a time or two.

Mike, you are right. Black trimmings for AKMS assault rifles are apparently an item for those bad guys who want to doll up the old AKMS, and who really think they will last more than ten seconds in a real firefight with a typically G3A2 assault rifle armed Mexican fusilero.

Posted by: badanov 2011-03-15 20:12

#3 What are black trimmings?

Probably for gun dealers what all those interesting mark ups are for car dealers. You know all those little things below the standard price listing to drive up the cost of the sale but add nothing of real value - aka the 200 dollar car wash.

Posted by: Procopius2k 2011-03-15 13:41

#2 The 22nd verse of "The Twelve Days of Christmas"?

Or maybe not.

What they 'might' mean is what is sometimes called furniture on a firearm, like the stock, the forestock, the pistol grip, which are commonly black on M16-class weapons. Extra grips and such. Or maybe it was the web gear or other bits. No telling, really. Lost in translation.

The Black Rifle, ahead of its time PC-wise.

Posted by: Whiskey Mike 2011-03-15 10:42

#1 Seized were 16 firearms,...22 black trimmings

What are black trimmings?

Posted by: trailing wife 2011-03-15 09:55

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