Check out what the Mexican Army just found ...

[SnappingTurtle]

... 540 assault rifles, .50-caliber rifles, 165 grenades, 500,000 rounds of ammunition & 14 sticks of TNT were found at a house in the city of Reynosa, Mexico, just accross the boarder from McAllen, Texas.

I wonder what they had in mind to do with them?

Don't no why I am posting this here, just kind of scary times we live in.

Please no political comments.

 

[Splat]

Re: Check out what the Mexican Army just found ...

Why jump tp any conclusions.

Maybe they just liked guns.


Bill

 

[Robj]

Re: Check out what the Mexican Army just found ...

I think is was getting ready for export to the drug dealers up north. Haven't heard of them using grenades, but it is well known that they have better weaponry that the local law enforcement.

Have a great day,

Rob.

 

[tashasdaddy]

Re: Check out what the Mexican Army just found ...

personal protection.

 

[SS MAYFLOAT]

Re: Check out what the Mexican Army just found ...

I wouldn't be surprised if there were more in other places. I wonder if there are stockpiles like that here in the US? Think WACO could have been one,,,,,maybe?

 

[Bob_VT]

Re: Check out what the Mexican Army just found ...

Personal use...... just like having a full bale of marijuana for personal use!

 

[NSBCraig]

Re: Check out what the Mexican Army just found ...

What are you saying a bale isn't personal use???

 

[mthieme]

Re: Check out what the Mexican Army just found ...

Why does the guy in the picture not look like Mexican police?

 

[SgtMaj]

Re: Check out what the Mexican Army just found ...

Awe man, they found my personal stash!

Seriously, what's up with that last one? Looks like paper mache?

 

[cheburashka]

Re: Check out what the Mexican Army just found ...

Awe man, they found my personal stash!

Seriously, what's up with that last one? Looks like paper mache?

Hammerite? Maybe it's one of those prison break guns that they make in arts and crafts!

 

[pduquette]

Re: Check out what the Mexican Army just found ...

Last one looks like someone took time to carve / inlay / guild etc ..... 'bout as personal as a fingerprint IMO .

 

[jay_merrill]

Re: Check out what the Mexican Army just found ...

I think is was getting ready for export to the drug dealers up north. Haven't heard of them using grenades, but it is well known that they have better weaponry that the local law enforcement.

Have a great day,

Rob.

I think you are right about the drug connection, but from what I have read, you may have the direction wrong. Mexican drug cartels are very fond of heavy duty weaponry for use against rivals and the police. They are especially fond of the 50 calibre sniper rifles.

 

[Bob in Calif.]

Re: Check out what the Mexican Army just found ...

Mabe the owners of all of that "hardware" are members of NAFTA???

There has been a lot of rival cartel killings lately in northern Mexico, in the Nogales, Sonora, Mx. area. This has included the killing of a number of Mexican police. Fully automatic weapons and hand grenade's have been in play along with the use of hand guns.

Bob in Calif..........."Locked and Loaded"

 

[marine4003]

Re: Check out what the Mexican Army just found ...

BIG coyote & Prairie Dog problems down there........

 

[SnappingTurtle]

Re: Check out what the Mexican Army just found ...

Seriously, what's up with that last one? Looks like paper mache?

The gold & silver-plated engraved gun belonged to Jaime Gonzalez, a leader of the armed wing of the Gulf drug cartel. He is a founding member of the drug gang's feared execution squad known as the Zetas. He was also arrested in the raid.

They also uncovered 400 pistols, and a rocket launcher, along with a healthy sum of cash.

Security forces consisting of military troops and federal police, burst in on Gonzalez in a house and nabbed him without firing a shot.

A group, from the cartel tried to free him from police custody near the Reynosa airport.

Police fought off the attackers and transferred Gonzalez to the Mexican capital.

P.S. Please all, no personal Politics.

It is in no way connected to NAFTA, and we all know that. This is a international problem of organized crime, and the drug smuggling that finances it.

From what I have heard from a friend who lives and works on a sailboat in the Caribbean, it is making their lives, and that of their friends there rather jumpy. Pirates connected to these gangs are constantly on the lookout for nice boats, what they can't buy, they take.

 

[Limited-Time]

Re: Check out what the Mexican Army just found ...

...................................................................................... but it is well known that they have better weaponry that the local law enforcement.

Have a great day,

Rob.

That's because they have better funding.

 

[Benny1963]

Re: Check out what the Mexican Army just found ...

yes that rifle is a work of art .he is gonna be bent behind that.
thats a lot of frags for some drug dealers ,i dont think its just drugs thats enough stuff ,to equip some serious trouble .the texas border ,is a mess.
wouldnt work the border ,hell blackwater wont touch it .
they need some serious .people down there to deal with it ,
local law enforcement ,should run .lol im sure something will cause us to man up on the southern border ,

 

[SnappingTurtle]

Re: Check out what the Mexican Army just found ...

yes that rifle is a work of art .he is gonna be bent behind that.
thats a lot of frags for some drug dealers ,i dont think its just drugs thats enough stuff ,to equip some serious trouble .the texas border ,is a mess.
wouldnt work the border ,hell blackwater wont touch it .
they need some serious .people down there to deal with it ,
local law enforcement ,should run .lol im sure something will cause us to man up on the southern border ,

I read later it was the largest single haul of weapons ever in Mexico.

It has gotten really bad. It was over the heads of the local police, so they have sent the military in to help lately.

 

[Benny1963]

Re: Check out what the Mexican Army just found ...

yes i started looking on the internet and got some news,
kind of gos hand in hand with our alien probs .
it would cost big bucks to get me to work down there .im originaly from
beaumont texas ,born in houston, thats more grenades than we ever conficated in iraq, wow .later snapper

 

[mthieme]

Re: Check out what the Mexican Army just found ...

I saw a story on the evening news last night...
evidently Mexican drug dealers went into a Southern Arizona town to do some business and the do-do hit the fan.
They had hand grenades which are evidently popular weapons with them.
The pictures on the news looked like the same arsenal...tons of stuff.