No, not the NGO cartels. The Mexican army.
REPORT: Mexican Army Loses 30% of Weapons Purchased from U.S.
Mexico’s Army (SEDENA) is losing approximately 30 percent of weapons purchased from the U.S., a report from Mexican journalist Carlos Loret De Mola revealed. The report comes as Mexico’s federal government litigates against firearm manufacturers in a U.S. court, blaming them for the raging cartel violence.Those missing weapons are showing up in crime scenes. Mexico’s military has also allegedly misplaced weapons bought from Germany, Australia, Italy, Romania, Spain, and Belgium.
In Mexico, the Army is the only entity that can purchase weapons from other countries. Further, all weapons bought by federal, state, and local law enforcement, as well as private citizens, are sold by SEDENA.
“Losing.” Does that include Los Zetas army members deserting with army gear? Blackmarket sales? 30% of the thousands of weapons the Mexican army buys from the US every year is a pretty big number.
Keep this in mind when you hear claims that 70% of the crime guns in Mexico are traced back to the US*, with the unsubstantiated implication that freelance traffickers are getting them from retail gun stores. One would hard-pressed to find affordable — transferrable, yet cheaper than what SEDENA pays for approved bulk purchases — assault rifles, heavy machine guns, or grenade launchers in retail gun stores.
Those links suggest that full-auto AK-47s are becoming the preferred cartel assault rifle. I think they can find other places where such are more readily available, and a heck of a lot cheaper, than American gun shops.
* It’s also worth noting that figure was really only @70% of recovered guns that the Mexican thought came from the US and were even worth trying to trace. Maybe they should just run those serial numbers against their own SEDENA purchase lists.
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In Mexico, the Army (a.k.a. the federal government) is the only entity that can legally purchase weapons from other countries.
There. Fixed it for them.
Journalists and politicians have a real hard time understanding that “legal” and “possible” are two very different things.
Maybe they’re coming from Afghanistan…
Somebody just left north of a half million American made small arms there…
One cannot help but wonder if all those weapons are going to the cartels, just who is the money flowing back to? I highly doubt that it is going to any individual soldier. In the numbers that they are talking about, it likely is going to either a government official, or someone who gets the weapons before they make it to the military.
You have to figure, that much like in the USA, if they really wanted to know, it would be relatively simple to find out.
Like with our elections, when they have a lottery that is multi state, for 400 million dollars, within hours, the lottery officials can tell you how many tickets were sold that were winners, what stores sold them, what time they sold them, etc. But our elections, no those take several weeks to count the ballots, tabulate the results, and then certify them, and get them all together and sent to Washington, where they are all held until prom day, I mean the Electoral college count, when the next president is declared, unless the Democrats have thrown a monkey wrench into things, and have encouraged trouble, to muddy the water and cause problems, so that when they finally do manage to count the votes, most people will just be happy that they have finally gotten it done, not actually thinking about the fraud that was apparent in the election. Not that there was any fraud in the election , of course, because that is just a rumor.
I sure taking the guns from the law abiding in the USA will solve this problem