Tag: cartels

There’s an Analogy in Here Somewhere

While Mexico defends ‘sovereignty,’ cartels import a flesh-eating parasite into Texas [More]

And why does one word come to mind when I read “using fake ear tags and falsified veterinary records to bypass government checkpoints, sanitary inspections, and taxes”?

Política Como de Costumbre

Mexican senator accuses Sheinbaum of shielding ‘narco-politicians’ after US cartel indictment – 10 current, former Mexican officials were indicted for allegedly partnering with the Sinaloa cartel [More]

Corruption and/or cowed acquiescence at the highest levels surprises who…?

Well, who’s pleasure do they serve at?

F_ these foreign and domestic enemies.

Gun Prohibitionists Using Pincer Strategy with Reports on U.S. Arms in Mexico

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.

Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One Before

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]

Point/Counterpoint

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.

Go Get ’em, Boys!

“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]

With what?

And who insures, especially for collateral damage?

“4% chance of being enacted“…

New York Times Returns to Old Playbook in Attack on Lake City Ammunition

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.

Somos los Únicos lo Suficientemente Borrachos

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]

Project Guntrucker

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.

South of the Border, Down Mexico Way

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]

Where Credit is Due

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.