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Gun running
Posted on 4/13/24 at 9:21 pm
Posted on 4/13/24 at 9:21 pm
I've heard that the Mexican cartels and Haitian gangs get most of their guns from the US.
How does that work? I would think if I were buying a dozen ARs at a time that would attract attention?
And then how do you get them thru the checkpoints? you aren't carrying a dozen ARs thru some river crossing, they gotta be flown or trucked.
Same question for Haiti, how do large quantities of guns get bought here without raising flags?
I'm just curious, not looking for a side gig.
How does that work? I would think if I were buying a dozen ARs at a time that would attract attention?
And then how do you get them thru the checkpoints? you aren't carrying a dozen ARs thru some river crossing, they gotta be flown or trucked.
Same question for Haiti, how do large quantities of guns get bought here without raising flags?
I'm just curious, not looking for a side gig.
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Posted on 4/13/24 at 9:31 pm to ecb
Fast and Furious
Posted on 4/13/24 at 9:34 pm to ecb
quote:
How does that work?
Straw purchase. Give someone money and they go buy a gun.
It's the same thing they do with cell phones, find the person with the best credit. Go to a store and get like 7 lines with free phones and sell those phones for cash. Certain people give no shots about their credit or anything.
Posted on 4/13/24 at 9:37 pm to ecb
Where there’s a will (or a lot of money), there’s a way- I think is the best way to sum it up.
Posted on 4/13/24 at 9:39 pm to ecb
I think the part that we mere mortals don’t understand is that there is so much money to be made in illicit activities, that normal hurdles are overcome quite easily.
Posted on 4/13/24 at 10:21 pm to ecb
Going from the US in Mexico, you go through Mexican customs, just about anything goes, especially with a couple dollars slipped in the pocket of a customs official.
Posted on 4/14/24 at 6:13 am to ecb
From a Washington Post article about Haiti's gangs getting guns from the US:
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Traffickers are taking advantage of Miami’s “break-bulk” port, a miles-long stretch of the Miami River lined with freighters that carry cargo that’s broken into individual items rather than transported in containers. Haitians in Florida use them to send rice, beans and other supplies home to loved ones.
When the freighters are loaded up, Salisbury said, they resemble a “giant, floating secondhand store” — and are notoriously difficult to search.
“We could get very solid investigative information that there was a load of weapons on a Haitian freighter,” he said. “It would take us weeks to unpack and look for it, and we still may not find it.”
Posted on 4/14/24 at 6:51 am to ecb
How do the drugs get to the US? Put stolen guns in for the trip back.
Posted on 4/14/24 at 7:10 am to Lonnie Utah
Pretty hard to smuggle an AR into Mexico in your butthole.
This post was edited on 4/14/24 at 7:11 am
Posted on 4/14/24 at 7:34 am to DownSouthJukin
You think millions of pounds of drugs are smuggled in through people’s buttholes?
There are tunnels throughout the border that they use They use boats, submarine type boats, etc.
There are tunnels throughout the border that they use They use boats, submarine type boats, etc.
Posted on 4/14/24 at 7:35 am to bbvdd
It was a joke. It’s ok to chuckle.
Posted on 4/14/24 at 7:40 am to subMOA
Where there’s a will (or a lot of money), there’s a way- I think is the best way to sum it up.
Nope, where there’s a will……..there’s a greedy relative waiting for you to die.
Nope, where there’s a will……..there’s a greedy relative waiting for you to die.
Posted on 4/14/24 at 7:47 am to DownSouthJukin
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It was a joke. It’s ok to chuckle.
Sorry, still pissed about the price of fertilizer
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Posted on 4/14/24 at 9:25 am to bbvdd
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Sorry, still pissed about the price of fertilizer
Maybe you can smuggle some fertilizer in from Mexico in your butthole.
This post was edited on 4/14/24 at 10:24 am
Posted on 4/14/24 at 9:38 am to ecb
With the southern boarders wide open it's not hard to move stuff back and forth.
They've been doing it for 100 years, now it's just easier.
If they can move drugs and money back and forth they can move guns.
They've been doing it for 100 years, now it's just easier.
If they can move drugs and money back and forth they can move guns.
Posted on 4/14/24 at 11:10 am to greenbean
kinda clueless comment. The worst thing to do at any border crossing is to offer money to an agent . You will be on video and held in jail till trial that you will not like
Posted on 4/14/24 at 12:43 pm to Twenty 49
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When the freighters are loaded up, Salisbury said, they resemble a “giant, floating secondhand store” — and are notoriously difficult to search.
So, like, just put official inspectors in there that search while the vessels are being loaded.
They want this stuff to get there
Posted on 4/14/24 at 2:47 pm to The Torch
quote:Like in the Tom Cruise movie.
If they can move drugs and money back and forth they can move guns.
Posted on 4/14/24 at 6:12 pm to ecb
quote:
I've heard that the Mexican cartels and Haitian gangs get most of their guns from the US.
Discovery/MAX has a show called “Contraband” where they just follow people that work at the border crossing. They are always finding guns that prople are trying to smuggle to Mexico. What’s crazy is that a large amount of the guns they seize are just regular wood stock hunting rifles.
The ARs they find are typically disassembled to make them easier to smuggle across.
Posted on 4/14/24 at 6:16 pm to ecb
Maybe if they walk in fill out 4473 and they run it and it’s not flagged for an American adjudicated crime it’s a clean purchase maybe? That’s what the government wants to probably happen. Then they can say see look!
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