Most places, if not all places there's a war, there are American weapons. Remember all the people coming after the American soldiers in Black Hawk Down, well they used American weapons.
this post was submitted on 11 Feb 2025
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Not sure if I'd really use the troubles as a defense against the proliferation of personal ownership of firearms........
Kinda hard to claim you've been "radicalized" by denying other radicalized individuals the ability to fight off a oppressive foreign government with a long history of genocidal tyranny against your entire ethnicity.
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The last thing the working classes of the world needs is for the owner class to have a monopoly on violence.
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They do get many from straw purchases here, which is already illegal can get you 10+yr in federal prison.
But also they get a fuckton of full auto guns that are illegal here from the mexican military's corrupt members, and other sources like china, somehow they get explosives too including south korean grenades have been found which is wild, and the best is Operation Fast & Furious, where the ATF just directly sold them a bunch of AKs "to track" and then surprise! "lost" them. They get em from multiple sources.
Restrictive gun laws, but live in North America? Just hop on over to the Ugunted Guns of Agundica and get as many as you want!
We had to arm the drugs in the War on Drugs to make it a real fight.
Wrong. I don't know why Jay Hulme feels the need to lie but there is more than one gun store in Mexico.
A quick look at Wikipedia clearly shows that there are actually two gun stores.
That's 100% more than OP said! Absolutely crazy, how could they do this?
~~Even easier and faster; a quick look at google maps presents a list, their locations, hours of operation....~~ Most of these are airsoft stores apparently.
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The tessreact.
BUSTED
The international community should probably do what the US did to set the drinking age to 21, but for guns.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Minimum_Drinking_Age_Act
How is that supposed to work? The international community doesn’t pay for US infrastructure.
The USA are a huge market for handguns and keep for example the European companies in business.
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Smuggled? The DEA was shipping them direct at one point.
I love America (maybe less now than in 2023, but still), but one of our great failings has been to ignore Eisenhower when he warned America about the military industrial complex. Most of my generation blames American imperialism on Big Oil, but I think the real roots lie in the MIC.
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Not literally shipping them, but setting up a sting that never stung. Ironically to stop the flow of illegal guns.
What a quaint scandal compared to what we see on an hourly basis these days.
Why need more gun store when the biggest gun store in the world is right above you? 🤷🏻♂️
Damn that gravity causing trickle down egunomy.
Mexico doesn’t really check vehicles coming into the country either. That’s something they could start doing. I know I’ve only been stopped one time out of maybe 20 but granted I’m not transporting a firearm.
Something like 85% of guns used in crimes in Canada are smuggled from the US
Sounds to me like someone should build a barrier of some sort to keep all those undesirables from the south out of their country.
Too fast, too furious...
https://www.cnn.com/2013/08/27/world/americas/operation-fast-and-furious-fast-facts/index.html
The craziest thing cartels buying guns in America and smuggling them into Mexico isnt that the US government was selling to people they thought were smugglers.
It's that the people at the gun store are doing the same shit people are doing all over the place.
The used gun market is insane, I know a couple people that constantly buy new guns and sell them less than a year later. They don't question why some person is willing to buy $200 over new price for a used gun.
And the way the law is structured, that's in their best interest.
If a random person walks up and asks to buy a gun, you don't have to ask any other questions as a "private seller" and since you can only get in trouble if you know that person can't own a gun, the less questions the better.
The "private sale" loophole makes every other gun law just a slight hassle to get around. But no one wants to actually close it.
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It also incentives those sales.
No gun store will pay as much as someone who can't buy from a gun store.
So to make sure someone ends up with that can legally have it, the seller loses money.