Notes from the Resistance
The intent here appears to be to once more blame “lax American gun laws” for Mexican cartel carnage and to assist in the deception… [More]
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before.
Why would it be her job, as president of Mexico, to secure the rights of Mexicans (male and female) in the United States? [More]
Since when do communists do anything but infiltrate and subvert?
ATF Employee Caught Gun Running to Mexico [More]
This is the topic I was thinking of writing up in detail.
I do have a quibble:
The Mexican Government makes the bold claim that 70% of all guns used in crimes were smuggled into Mexico from the United States.
That used to be the claim the antis all made, but they started at “95 to 100 percent.” Now the DSM is more properly qualifying things by saying:
Nearly 70% of TRACED [emphasis added] firearms used to commit crimes and seized in Mexico come from the United States, according to ATF.
So instead of being a flat-out lie, it’s now an insidious lie of omission, because they don’t then inform:
No specific numbers on how many of those guns “recovered in Mexico and traced back to the United States” were, in fact, military purchases, but the State Department cables indicate a portion of the fewer than 12 percent of the traceable weapons actually came from the United States in gun shop/individual type purchases. Remember, that’s not 12 percent of the tens of thousands of weapons recovered – it’s only 12 percent of the weapons recovered that were traceable. It’s nowhere near the 12 percent figure that has been misquoted and used as evidence of the United State’s “horrific” problem of illegal gun sales.
Now, tell us more about the drunks…
[More]
I wish these people would have consulted with Alex and Cato before getting everybody’s bowels in an uproar…
[Via WiscoDave]
A former investigator with the ATF (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) is accused of trafficking weapons to Mexico while he was an employee of the bureau in 2017, according to a letter sent to the ATF Director this week by US Senator Charles Grassley. [More]
Jeez, another letter…?
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before.
I went to Grassley’s “News Releases” page and didn’t see the letter. I asked him for a copy:
Anybody have a link?
I started an AmmoLand article on this but then found another writer was working on it. I’ll wait for that one to see if there’s anything substantive I can add.
[Via gbob]
Federal prosecutors have charged seven with conspiring to smuggle more than 1 million rounds of ammunition and high-powered weapons into Mexico. [More]
Would it be considered bad form to ask where they’re from and whether border control might work better than gun control?
[Via Jess]
Biden Border Crisis Endangering Us All: 659 Known Terrorists Captured at the Border This Year Alone [More]
Who you gonna believe? CBP data or Alex and Cato?
[Via Michael G]
Related UPDATE
The Writing Is on the Wall: America Likely to Be Hit Because of the Invasion From Mexico [More]
And Democrat cities are most at risk…
[Via bondmen]
If that sounds familiar, it’s the premise on which Operation Fast and Furious, which Grassley opened his letter to Dettelbach with, was founded. [More]
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before.
Mexico’s President Obrador blasts US aid for Ukraine — advocates for more Latin America funding [More]
What kind of gratitude is that after “Ukraine’s Global Voice” called Mexico’s invaders “thousands of largely peaceful migrants”? (Citing Republicans Against Trump as an authority to heed doesn’t win Kyiv any points either…)
We ought to be charging Mexico for every illegal they send our way.
[Via Steve T]
CBS News is running a special investigation into the smuggling of firearms to Mexico. US government officials estimate that the cartels are smuggling 2,000 firearms a day across the Mexican border. The way it works is that the cartels alerts buyers in the US who are not prohibited persons of their needs, they transfer the guns to brokers, and then the guns go to smugglers who take the firearms across the border to the cartels. Buyers are reported to be spread across all 50 states. [More]
Why did I suddenly think “Ecclesiastes”?
John Richardson does a great job bringing us up to speed and putting things in perspective with the overlooked history, something the DSM will not do.
Texas Police Cadet Imprisoned for Supplying Mexican Cartel with .50 Caliber Ammo [More]
I guess Pedro hadn’t gotten to the “Refusing consent to searches” and “Refusing to talk to the police” parts of his training.
This is so sketchy there has to be a lot more to what clued them in, and I’m thinking “informant” and “low-hanging fruit.”
[Via bondmen]
How US Gun Laws Affect the Rest of America [Watch]
I just don’t have an extra 42 minutes in the course of a given day to watch a video so I’m posting this link without seeing this yet.
That it’s by Vice and one of the major premises appears to be U.S. guns are the prime source for Mexico’s problems makes me wonder if it will be worth my time later.
And that said, once in a while they don’t do too badly.
If any of you want to brave it, feel free to comment.
[Via 1Gat]
Juárez, Darwin José García of the southern Mexican state of Veracruz initially told police he was migrant attempting to cross into the U.S. But the man later told reporters he was practicing a sport on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande… [More]
Sport. Yeah, that’s the ticket.
[Via Jess]
Mexico president attacks Reuters report on narco remittances [More]
Talk about a fight between rats and snakes…
And this caught my eye:
In a post on X, formerly known as Twitter…
Musk knew what he was doing to get free advertising mentions in all these “news” stories…
[Via Jess]
Newly-released images show final distressing hours of five Mexican college students as cartel thugs forced one of the victims to decapitate his childhood friend [More]
And thanks to vote-whoring Democrats and cheap labor-whoring Republicans, there’s nothing to stop these animals from coming here and doing it to anyone they want.
Meanwhile, the treasonous damn Bradys are helping Mexican government cartel lackeys sue gunmakers to disarm you.
[Via bondmen]
DHS Deputy: Biden’s Border Policy Expands Cartels’ Wealth and Reach [More]
Consider it a quid pro quo.
Good thing this has nothing to do with that “single issue.” And I have that on good authority.
[Via bondmen]
But Mexico’s lawyers argued the law only bars lawsuits over injuries that occur in the United States and does not shield the seven manufacturers and one distributor it sued from liability over the trafficking of guns to Mexican criminals. [More]
That’s right, and if they’d done what the U.S. government, in willful collusion with corrupt Mexican government, military, and law enforcement officials continues to do, they’d be liable.
It takes a special kind of traitor to argue otherwise in court.
[Via Jess]
