Mexicans Agents Arrested Buying Guns Here

Sep 12th, 2007 | By Michel Marizco | Category: General News, Organized Crime, Politics

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THE BORDER REPORT

Mexico President Felípe Calderón seems to be spending a lot of his time these days talking tough against the gringos, and while most of his rhetoric is aimed at a domestic audience, i.e., Mexicans, not Americans, his words do carry a certain diplomatic weight in this country.

So it would be nice, before the president beseeches the gringos to please, please stop selling weapons to the narcos, if he could get his own police officers under control before they kill more of his own citizens.

Three police officers, including the commander of the Mexican FBI in Baja California Sur, the commander of the state police in the same state and one of his officers were all arrested in Phoenix on Saturday trying to buy three handguns and 450 rounds of ammunition at a gunshow.

The three men drove up in the State Police commander’s official armored Chevrolet Suburban.

I’m sure the local media will get to this story eventually, so I’ll let them deal with the details of the arrest. Suffice it to say, Phoenix PD, ATF and ICE dropped in on them as they were buying the weapons.

Gunshows in Arizona are some of the easiest places in the United States to pick up weapons. Good stuff too; I’ve been eyeing a really nice Bushmaster AR-15 I want to pick up someday. I’ll probably go to a gunshow to do so; they offer better prices and a better selection. But before I lose myself in a gun-rights argument, let me get back to Calderón.

We have our problems of course. With the 2004 expiration of the assault weapons ban, only your bank account limits how many semi-autos you can buy in Arizona. Obviously, there is going to be problem with narcos, gangmembers, whack-jobs and ignorants buying powerful weapons. That’s the consequence of liberal gun laws. (The AK-47 and ammo in the photo above were confiscated in Caborca last month. According to the serial numbers on the rifle, I’m told it was purchased in Arizona.)

But – like Americans blaming the Mexicans for selling us the dope – Mexico has many problems of its own to tackle before assigning blame outwards.

Like corrupt federal and local police, for example.

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Laura D. September 12th, 2007 2:21 pm
What ever happened to the link to the story that tells us what Calderon has been saying? You typically gives us one, or two. Are we supposed to just take your word for it? ha!
R. P. Hudson September 12th, 2007 6:40 pm
I really like your site, you seem to have really great inside information.
I’ve been touristing in Mexico since 1970.
I’m just wondering if the occasional assults on gringo or even Mexican American tourists may increase after January 1st as thousands of Mexicans are forced back to Mexico because of the new employer enforcement laws? After that they may resent Americans even more.
R. P. Hudson September 12th, 2007 6:42 pm
I really like your site, you seem to have really great inside information.
I’ve been touristing in Mexico since 1970.
I’m just wondering if the occasional assaults on gringo or even Mexican American tourists may increase after January 1st as thousands of Mexicans are forced back to Mexico because of the new employer enforcement laws? After that they may resent Americans even more.
H.I. Smith September 13th, 2007 1:58 pm
Do you know anything on the capture of a drug kingpin in columbia recently?
buddabelly September 14th, 2007 6:35 pm
Michael, sorry I hadn’t answered your emails they were buried under freecycle. I found yours while cleaning the account had over 800 from freecycle, great idea but aaahhhhhhhh what it does to your in box.

sclwm so called left wing media.

And I’ve unsubscribed so hopefully that won’t happen again. i link to you as often as the border situation comes up, I hope you are getting some numbers boost out of it.

One of these days I intend to do some interview type diaries from migrants who’ve made it this far, I hope to use some of your stuff of course I’ll keep the clips short and the links prominent.

As always keep up the great work. Oh and I really am curious what you think the chances of a marriage of convenience between ezln and the cartels similar to farc in Columbia.
DRP September 15th, 2007 8:57 pm
Gun show at TCC this wkd., I think.
buddabelly September 17th, 2007 9:11 am
I heard rumors of someone, presumably EZLN, hitting pipelines again during the hurricane that just hit Guaymas. Have you heard this? Is it true or just more talk.
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