Gun prices
Mar 2nd, 2010 | By Michel Marizco | Category: General News
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I want to know how much a cartel figure in Mexico is paying for a rifle, whether it’s an AK-47 or an AR-15. I’m not looking for what you pay in the U.S. but specifically how much that gun is worth in Mexico.
Thoughts?
i know a hitman goes for $40-150 a week in Juarez cuz they guys just spill theyre guts when they get caught, i also have a doubt about some of these killings, some reports are coming out that there’s quite a few woman doing the killing but what are the chances that of these clean shaven kids where wigs to throw off the cops? What do you guys think?
http://lapolaka.com/2010/02/27/doble-sorpresa/
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i have no fooking clue anymore about these people…………..
http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/nacion/175966.html
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AR 15 goes between 2000 – 3000 US depending on how new and any upgrades
AK is about 1500 – 2500
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Dont get caught with one its a federal crime with a minimum 10 year sentence.
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Unless you are a sicario… etc, then is only 10 days maximum sentence.
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I predict that a cartel boss is paying only about a hundred bucks per gun and he probably pays in coke. I figure he pays guys on the u.s side to collect guns for them and he pays them in coke but a us price on coke so infact he probably gets them really cheap since demand for coke is higher on the u.s side rather than demand for guns on the mexican side.The only demand for guns over there is from cartels not mainstream. A brick of coke goes a long way over here and can get u alot of guns ready to go over there.
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Thanks buddy!!
Michel Marizco wrote:
I wanted to call your attention to a series of egregious errors in this story.
Osiel Cardenas is not awaiting trial. He was sentenced last week.
Ramon Arellano is dead. he’s not the leader of anything except a graveyard.
Santiago Meza López worked for the opposing cartel, not for the Arellano Felix organization.
March 2, 2010 5:09 AM GMT
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stick it to the man Michel!!!
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@el teo: That is wierd, because I have a cousin who was hunting and got caught by the military with a bolt action .270 hunting gun and he was in prison in hermosillo for about 8 months after we could get a lot of money together to get him out. He had never been in trouble with the law and actually had a dead elk in his pickup but they put him in prison.
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I am not talking bulk sales. Everyone knows that when the cartel places orders they paywhole sale prices because they buy dozens. I am talking street prices for 1 rifle in culiacan. The further down you go the more expensive it is. Ammunition goes for about $1 a round a box of 223 that you pay $5 for will go for about $20. That is why so many people were importing guys because of the huge payoff. They do not search the vehicles going south at the same level they do going north. But like I said dont get caught or robbed. You may wind up in prison for 10 years or wrapped in a blanket. Chances are that if you are doing it you dont have the connections to get you off in 10 days. Your only shot would be to pay off the cops that stopped you and that could be as much as $10k and give up the riffle. If you think that is bullshit… fook what you think
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actually, you don’t need connections, you just need to pay the bail, which is around 5k-10k thousand dollars. then you get out of jail. this is of course only to “armas exclusvio del ejercito”. You can get lower caliber guns like a .380 and if you get caught with it, you only get a fine thats around 8000 pesos and the gun taken away. Supposely, you can actually own lower caliber guns and rifles if your register them with the military, but if they ransack your house, their taken it away whether its registered or not. @curious, your friend could of gotten jail time more for killing the elk than for the gun. You need to have a permit just like in the U.S. to go hunting in Mexico, and can get some hefty jail time if get caught or pay a big fine if done without a permit.
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also i’ve heard people paying about 20k for 1 fully automatic m16, about a couple years ago. with grenade launcher and everything. not sure about a cuerno d chivo or ar15, but i’m figuring about 10k.
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TuPadre knows what hes talking about…
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Word on the streets is that there was a balazera in ures sonora.
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I was a highway man, along the coach roads I did ride, with sword and pistol by myside. Many young maid lost her bottle to my trade, many a soldier shed his life blood on my blade.
The bastards hung me in the spring of ’25, but I am still alive…
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@rofl ok, maybe that is what got him the hefty sentence was having the dead elk. I always just assumed it was the gun.
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I was in Durango about 2 years ago and a Guy outside of a bar had aks for 5k dollars, a whole trunk full of them.
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I had a friend who would hire crackheads to steal or find stolen or hot guns for him so he would buy them for pennys on the dollar and would take them to mexico and sell them pretty comparable to what someone would pay here, but since they were hot or stolen they didn’t cost him hardly anything and he’d get rid of all of them quick. I actually bought a nice H&K 9 from him for like $100 which is what he paid. I ended up getting rid of it for fear of where it had been.
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i actually live in los mochis sinaloa which is 2 hours away from culiacan.. a cuerno is going for about 10 to 15 k pesos… i dunno on what conditions it would be in and probably hot im assuming… i would also like to ask the readers if they know any info about what is going on in los mochis..supoosedly 3 cartels have come togehter to take out the zetas.. and it has been pretty violent the past few weeks.. everyday about 5 people are assasinated…. this weekend there had beeen emails and narco mantas going around about the war going on between them an to stay home an stuff. please someone let me know if u have any info because the whole city is scared… after 7 pm the streets are lonely…
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