'Iron River' of Guns Flows Into Mexico

Canuck_Buck · 03-12-2007, 08:10 AM

MESA, Ariz."” Human and drug-smuggling organizations in Mexico[/b] are getting their guns from the same places law-abiding U.S. citizens are getting theirs: licensed gun dealers and gun shows, according to court documents.[/b]

"There's an iron river of guns flowing to Mexico," said special agent Thomas Mangan, spokesman for the Phoenix[/b] office of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives[/b].

Search warrant affidavits show smugglers are getting guns from "straw purchasers," people with clean records who buy guns for smugglers, who then sneak them across the border for a few hundred dollars.

Records show the weaponry is bought from legitimate dealers in U.S. cities from Tucson to Scottsdale and Apache Junction to Avondale.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,258270,00.html

kevin1 · 03-12-2007, 08:13 AM

Guns must be harder to come by down in old Mexico these days for them to buy them up here.

Canuck_Buck · 03-12-2007, 08:20 AM

what do you make of this "Iron River" terminology?

it would be interesting to find out what kind of guns are going there.

alsaqr · 03-12-2007, 08:25 AM

Well, it seems like "free trade" to me. Maybe the dope peddlerswill use them to kill each other.

Canuck_Buck · 03-12-2007, 01:50 PM

I hear ya alsagr, but I would wonder though, is anyone counting and keeping track at which guns are going where? would be easy to keep a database...never know when them m 'xicans might decide to charge those new minutemen fences...lol

Aught Six · 03-12-2007, 07:32 PM

How about the river of teeming third world masses flowing the other way? I'd like to see the AP right something about that.

Anyway, it's not cool that Mexicans are getting our guns. That means less for us. We're not the only source, though. You can't buy a Humvee with an M60 at a gun show in Arizona. Some of these guys are armed to the teeth with all kinds of weapons sent to Central America during the 70's and 80's.

alsaqr · 03-13-2007, 06:38 AM

"Some of these guys are armed to the teeth with all kinds of weapons sent to Central America during the 70's and 80's"

Bill Klinton gave away thousands of Humvees andweaponry to the Mexicangovernmentafter he gutted the US military.