An illegal immigrant from Mexico was charged in Texas with attempting to purchase an M-203 grenade launcher and three AK-47s. The M-203 is a U.S. military single shot 40mm grenade launcher designed to be attached to the M16 and M4 carbine.
According to the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives, on February 7th ATF agents arrested Oscar Fredy Garcia (31) near Los Fresnos, Texas, as a result of a sting operation. Undercover ATF agents initially met with Garcia the day before, when he made a $300 down payment on a $5,000 deal for the weapons. He agreed to meet the next day to take possession and was arrested in Los Fresnos.
While Mexico’s Constitution does provide for private ownership of firearms, the Mexican military controls, and severely limits, individual firearm sales. The military estimates that
less than one percent of the firearms in Mexico are legally registered and 90 percent of all firearms are used for criminal purposes. The question is how serious is the U.S. about stemming the illegal flow of firearms into Mexico and the answer is not that serious.
According to the U.S. Government Accountability Office, “most of the firearms seized in Mexico that were
traced and found to be of U.S. origin came from U.S. Southwest border states.” Ironically,
most were bought legally, often by illegal aliens, in the U.S. then smuggled across the border thanks to
a little known U.S. court decision.
On August 20, 2015, Chief Judge Diane Wood wrote for a three-judge panel of
the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit that the panel could “see no principled way to carve out the Second Amendment and say that [illegal aliens] are excluded” from exercising Second Amendment rights. The decision affords illegal aliens the same Second Amendment rights to own guns as law abiding U.S. citizens. Wood, a President Clinton appointee, was under consideration by President Obama for the Supreme Court vacancy.
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