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The Feb. 21 attack on police headquarters in coastal Zihuatanejo, which injured four people, fit a disturbing trend of Mexico's drug wars. Traffickers have escalated their arms race, acquiring military-grade weapons, including hand grenades, grenade launchers, armor-piercing munitions and antitank rockets with firepower far beyond the assault rifles and pistols that have dominated their arsenals.Most of these weapons are being smuggled from Central American countries or by sea, eluding U.S. and Mexican monitors who are focused on the smuggling of semiauto- matic and conventional weapons purchased from dealers in the U.S. border states of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and CaliforniaThese groups appear to be taking advantage of a robust global black market and porous borders, especially between Mexico and Guatemala. Some of the weapons are left over from the wars that the United States helped fight in Central America, U.S. officials said.How many weapons have been smuggled into Mexico from Central America is not known, and the military-grade munitions are still a small fraction of the larger arsenal in the hands of narcotics traffickers. Mexican officials continue to push Washington to stem the well-documented flow of conventional weapons from the United States, as Congress holds hearings on the role those smuggled guns play in arming Mexican drug cartels.
WASHINGTON — Barely 8 percent of the estimated 100,000 firearms seized in Mexico's drug wars over the past three years have been traced to U.S. sales by licensed gun dealers, Congress was told Thursday.The finding could suggest many firearms with U.S. origins in the hands of Mexican drug cartels have been stolen or purchased at gun shows without federal record keeping.Bill McMahon, deputy assistant director of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, said Mexican authorities claim to have seized an estimated 100,000 firearms from drug cartels during the offensive launched by Mexican President Felipe Calderón.Mexican authorities submitted 20,000 of those firearms to the ATF to trace their origins, enabling the U.S. agency to determine that 90 percent of the referred weapons — or 18,000 firearms — were manufactured, imported or sold in the U.S., McMahon said.http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/mexico/Most_cartel_guns_not_from_licensed_dealers.html
yea, Obama said he was for the 2nd Amendment. But I've been reading the writing on the wall. I see the micro stamping and raised tax on ammo coming first.
