Where Drug Cartels Get Guns

[Pericles]

Raid an arsenal:

http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/0...raided-in.html

[oyarde]

I Bet that H & K .223 is a good weapon . 43 of them would have a street value higher than an average years wages of a Bell , California resident .

[AME3]

I would guess (from what I have read), that the majority of guns coming from the US into Mexico are being smuggled in by honest folk trying to get some protection for their families. The cartels purchase heavy full autos, grenades, and such, from arms dealers who get them from other countries or from crooked Mexican government individuals. The "guns from the US" thing, is purely political, IMO anyway.

[Toureg89]

I Bet that H & K .223 is a good weapon . 43 of them would have a street value higher than an average years wages of a Bell , California resident .

https://www.budsgunshop.com/catalog/...ducts_id/41599

civilian semi auto versions are probably between 1,000-2,000$ retail

a military version is probably closer to 5,000$, just because idk of any non government/pmc entity that would own a military version (short and fa)

you're looking at an income of 90,000$ just from the rifles.

there were 26 9mm pistols, at 500$ each, you'd get another 13,000$.

so an easy 100,000$

divided by 6 mean is about just under 15,000$ each, for one nights "work"

[coastie]

I would guess (from what I have read), that the majority of guns coming from the US into Mexico are being smuggled in by honest folk trying to get some protection for their families. The cartels purchase heavy full autos, grenades, and such, from arms dealers who get them from other countries or from crooked Mexican government individuals. The "guns from the US" thing, is purely political, IMO anyway.

Actually, since the U.S. is the biggest arms dealer in the world-bar none- it is safe to say the guns came from here, just not how the media/gov spins it. They try to spin it to where it's "that easy" to get guns in the U.S.-especially automatic ones, when the COST, red tape and tax alone associated with full autos doesn't make it very feasible(or smart) for them to get the guns that way.


EDIT
Went to the range last weekend, a guy was there with two MP-5's-full auto. It's amazing how quickly you can go through $100 worth of 9mm with one of those

He bought them both for $3500 he said years ago, and that the guy that left before me offered him $15k for one of them right then and there. He refused the offer