Notes from the Resistance
Fingers would be better pointed at Mexico’s pervasive corruption and tyrannical citizen disarmament edicts that have made a cartel black market both lucrative and inevitably bloody. [More]
The media pulling the same deceptions we saw before Operation Fast and Furious “Gunwalking” makes this déjà vu all over again.
Gun Store Owner Indicted for Conspiracy and Attempting to Provide Material Support to Designated Foreign Terrorist Organizations [More]
News stories here. Guns and Gadgets comentary here.
It’s hard to believe an FFL intimately familiar with ATF oversight could be this stupidly self-destructive and risk all over such limited returns, and anyone who remembers the ordeal of the Reese family, and how the full weight of the government, lying witnesses, and frozen assets make an adequate defense nigh-on impossible, will have their skepticism meter turned to “High.”
I stipulate I just heard about this story and have no evidence to back that up. It’s just that I don’t have a high degree of confidence that ATF has always been a truthful source about U.S. guns to Mexico.
[Via Jess]
Armed with military-grade weapons smuggled from the U.S., the 50-man force is one of dozens of “autodefensa,” or “self-defense,” groups that have emerged over the past decade in Mexico to fight increasingly sophisticated cartels in areas far out of the reach of security forces. [More]
Which FFL are they getting them from?
And just to show there are two sides to every story:
We Traced How U.S. Guns Get to Mexican Cartels [More]
How come commie Antifa/No Kings types never come after cartels? Are the defenders worth siding with? Let God sort ’em out?
American guns fueling Mexican violence, so we need to curtail rights here? This looks like just what the media narrative was before all hell broke loose.
“It allows the president to contract out to privateers and go after the cartels,” Burchett said. “These would be top-tier operators, SEALs, Special Forces, Marine Raiders and commando types. Some are still working as private operators. It allows private citizens to act against the cartels. [More]
And who insures, especially for collateral damage?
This is what Democrats protesting deportations of unvetted criminal aliens, and demanding the government disarm you, want to reduce this country to.
Every protester and politician impeding ICE is a traitor. Let the RICO prosecutions of those funding it begin.
[Via Jess]
What we’re seeing is a practical repeat of what the anti-gunners and their media amplifiers were telling the American public prior to “Gunwalker” in an attempt to swindle them out of their rights… [More]
It’s déjà vu all over again.
Forty-three state police officers in the Mexican border state of Tamaulipas have been suspended. They are under investigation for having turned their police station into a bar and being drunk on the job. The scandal comes at a time when Tamaulipas continues to experience rising levels of cartel violence, and state police officers have been accused of not acting against cartel gunmen. [More]
If that’s their alternative, I’d say they made the right choice.
[Via bondmen]
Paul Campo, Former DEA Official, and Friend, Robert Sensi, Agreed to Launder Approximately $12,000,000 and Participate in Narcotics Trafficking for the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, a/k/a Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generacion or CJNG [More]
Hey, why should Mexicans have all the fun?
[Via Jess]
Mayor Who Begged Sheinbaum for Help Fighting Cartels Assassinated at Day of the Dead Celebration [More]
What, he didn’t know?
[Via Michael G]
Mexican Senator: ‘Trump is Right, Mexico Ruled by Cartels’ [More]
And the ones not directly on the take are kept in check with the knowledge that anyone within their circle — at the highest levels — could be.
Understand that if the cartels objected to lawsuits against American gun manufacturers, they would make their expectations known loud and clear.
[Via bondmen]
ICE, CBP seize 400 firearms hidden in fake trailer walls at southern border crossing… HSI officials said the guns were headed into Mexico, where cartels fuel ongoing violence. [More]
That’s what happens when you’re not sanctioned. Funny, how a little bit of border security works, almost like the lack of it was deliberate.
But as we all know, this isn’t how the cartels gets their “good” stuff.
Shoot, I could’a told ’em that 16 years ago.
Related UPDATE
Note that last link was from April 2009, nine months before Mike Vanderboegh and I started our Fast and Furious reporting, but worth mentioning because it helps show how we were positioned to use the information we uncovered subsequent to the murder of Border Patrol agent Brian Terry that kicked the whole thing off.
I mention that because of this:
I appreciate the recognition. Most were never told and will never know.
You’ll not find our names here (I’ve been told by those who tried that attempts to add them have been edited out) or in an incentivized media narrative.
Gulf Cartel Gunman Caught in Mexico near Texas Border with 151 Explosives, 18 Drones, 3 IEDs [More]
We keep coming back to it’s not the laws, it’s the person, don’t we?
[Via bondmen]
TikTokker and singer Esmeralda Ferrer Garibay, 32, husband Roberto Carlos Gil Licea, 36, son Gael Santiago, 13, and 7-year-old daughter Regina were discovered murdered inside the abandoned gray Ford Ranger in Guadalajara on Aug. 22… [More]
Democrats want their killers to be able to cross the border and embed themselves in our society at will. And they want us to be defenseless.
[Via Michael G]
59 Cops Arrested in Southern Mexico for Working with Cartels [More]
Hey, they’re just following the example set by their leadership…
Besides, we all know Mexican “gun violence” is U.S. gun companies’ fault.
Hey, we got us a category.
[Via bondmen]
According to the actual complaint, a Florida gun dealer became suspicious of Delgado after he tried to purchase his fourth Barrett rifle, which can retail for $10,000 or more. As a result, the gun dealer contacted the ATF directly. [More]
If he hadn’t reported suspicions he’d have been treated as a co-conspirator. That, to me, is the greater issue.
Federal authorities in Southern California filed a complaint charging three foreign nationals with conspiring to distribute nearly four tons of methamphetamine, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said in a June 5 statement. [More]
Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass should be particularly outraged.
Maybe the district judge it gets assigned to can put a stop to it.
[Via bondmen]
