Unpossible again:
a Hispanic male entered the restaurant through a back entrance, pointed a weapon at a clerk and demanded money. A second suspect, a black male, then came in and pointed a weapon at several customers demanding money. Both suspects then took cash from the register and fled the scene before police arrived.
Don’t these guys [...]

I thought those mortars and machine guns were coming from US gun shows?

Former Ambassadors to Mexico say we should pass an assault weapons ban.

In the US:
I would like to see the assault weapons ban reinstated – it’s not philosophical, it’s because of what we have seen on the ground…There is a direct correlation between the assault ban and expiring in 2004 and the numbers – simply the sheer numbers – of assault weapons that we seize in Mexico…We [...]

Bob: an ATF official testified in Congress that only eight percent of weapons recovered in Mexico came through licensed U.S. gun dealers.
I thought it was 90%? That’s what the press, the administration, and the anti-gunners (but I repeat myself) tell me?

I mentioned earlier that there was an FBI agent arrested for dealing firearms without a license and that those weapons turned up in Mexico. Some seem to think he’s being railroaded by the ATF.

You’d think: With gun prices so high, surely Mexican criminals are looking elsewhere.

We had heard rumors of this before on gun boards. And also a mention in the press a bit back. Now, the Houston Chronicle is in on it:
Success on the front lines of a government blitz on gunrunners supplying Mexican drug cartels with Houston weaponry hinges on logging heavy miles and knocking on countless doors. [...]

Fact Check on gun traced in Mexico.

Ted Novin: The report, which NSSF is still reviewing, appears to be rife with error.
It looks like GAO may have hired a Violence Policy Center shill to write parts of it. Of course, it’s not like the VPC has anything else to do.

Now, it’s the Jamaican Gun Canard. It’s much more exotic than the Mexican Gun Canard.

After a bit of a lull, the Mexican Gun Canard is back. The LAT parrots the whole machine guns coming from gun shows thing, which is false.

Factcheck asks why more gun in Mexico aren’t traced. They say it’s because the system isn’t in English. Odd. Also it’s because a lot of guns come in from Mexico’s southern border.

Bill Conroy:
Experts suggest Mexican weapons-bust press conference may have been staged event
[...]
there is just one problem with this narrative. According to U.S. law enforcers, specifically the ATF, the captured weapon is not what it appears to be, or at least what it was purported to be by the Mexican police commander.
In fact, according to Bill [...]

Sig Sauer 226 Blackwater edition. Not to be confused with the Xe edition.
Ugly ass golden guns.
Ruger report.

David Codrea:
Mexican warehouse exposes gun grabber cartel lies

RICHARD S. DUNHAM, Houston Chronicle:
Amid a wave of publicity about drug-related gun violence along the Mexican border and police killings in U.S. cities, an increasing number of Americans oppose new government efforts to regulate guns.
Recent nonpartisan polls show shrinking support for new gun-control measures and strong public sentiment for enforcing existing laws instead. So strong [...]

I’m guessing they got that airsoft gun at a gun show? And ATF probably can’t trace it.

PJTV parrots the Mexican Gun Canard? Anyway, the big issue is the press reporting that machine guns and bazookas are coming from US gun shows. We know that’s not the case since those are banned here. Even ATF says the weapons are coming from Mexico’s southern border.

Lost in the whole Mexican Gun Canard thing is this bit of truth from ridefast:
Even if every single gun, knife and throw able rock in Mexico came from a single gun shop in southern California, it does not justify one more gun restricting law in the United States.

We’ve been saying that for a while. But an ATF agent says the same thing to Greta Van Susteren:
According to the ATF spokesperson interviewed, while the military-grade machine guns used by Mexican drug cartels are being imported from Central America, “the predominate amount of weapons we see are being purchased here [the U.S.] and being [...]

Investors Business Daily calls it bogus.
Wayne LaPierre: They’re trying to piggyback this whole phony issue on the back of the tragedy in Mexico

The president of Mexico issued some demands for US gun laws:
* Ban on semi-automatic rifles
* Gun owner registry
* One gun-a-month
* Enact Mexican gun laws in the United States
Obama blames the US for all Mexico’s problems. Of course, we know the issue is grossly [...]

AirSoft AK-47s, apparently. Oh, and they come from US gun shows, natch.
Bonus for ravenwood’s law too.
Update: Image changed. Heh. This was the first image she opted for.

Drug control breeds gun control. The ever evolving Mexican Gun Canard goes through another iteration.

FactCheck.org, which is ordinarily in the tank for Obama, comes out and says that the 90% of guns in Mexico come from the US that the administration parrots is false:
But is it true as President Obama said, that “More than 90 percent of the guns recovered in Mexico come from the United States?” No, it’s [...]

JOHN LOTT: ABC’s Shameful ‘20/20′ Experiment
It opens with an interesting bit. Lott notes that gun control activists appear desperate. After all, why else would they fabricate a piece such as the 20/20 bit? Or, for that matter, bitterly cling to the Mexican Gun Canard?

Or pantalones mierda histeria
Despite being thoroughly debunked, the Mexican Gun Canard continues:
Fox News already debunked the claim that 90% of the guns involved in Mexico’s drug war come from the United States. Facts aside, the press onslaught continues in a new push for gun control.
The fact is that out of 29,000 firearms picked up [...]

More on the Mexican Gun Canard.

AK 47 made of bacon.
China’s QBZ-95
Linoge gets his AR on.
Mexican army using HK32

The VPC issues a comprehensive study of how the U.S. civilian firearms market contributes to the ongoing drug-related violence in Mexico. Summing up Google searches, no doubt.
Anyway, this one is easy because it comes pre-debunked.

Once more, with feeling.
Yon is still bitterly clinging to the Mexican Gun Canard. When he’s not calling us fanatics for pointing out facts and stuff, he’s happily parroting talking points that have been proven false. The latest is Yon’s re-publishing a rebuttal to a FoxNews piece by Todd Bensman. You see, you should take [...]

Steve debunks the canard by actually looking at the confiscated arms. The LAW, M249 beltfed machinegun, and the fragmentation grenades are not coming from US gun shows.
Meanwhile, this is brilliant. You see, the guns do come from here. Except we are smuggling them from US gun shows to Guatemala. Then Guatemalans smuggle them in [...]

FoxNews dispels the myth that 90% of Mexican crime guns come from the US:
There’s just one problem with the 90 percent “statistic” and it’s a big one:
It’s just not true.
In fact, it’s not even close. By all accounts, it’s probably around 17 percent.
What’s true, an ATF spokeswoman told FOXNews.com, in a clarification of the statistic [...]

Don’t tell Yon, but I’d say a fair amount of Mexican AK-47s are coming from that Venezuelan factory.

A bit back I mentioned Michael Yon’s falling for the Mexican Gun Canard. He continues to parrot that line.
If you disagree with him and use facts and reason and stuff, you are a fanatic.
UJ tells Yon to stop digging, which is good advice when you’re in a hole.

Don:
if you were a leader in a Mexican cartel with access to rifles, ammunition, grenades and RPG’s from Mexican military arsenals, M16 rifles and ammunition from scavengers all over South America who have old American military exports to sell on the cheap, and a dozen other sources . . . would you be sending people [...]

Seen at PGP’s:
As the issue of Mexican violence continues to boil over, it has become clear that for many anti-gun politicians, the war on drugs and the war on gun owners’ rights are the same thing.

Claim: It is estimated that at least 90% of the guns used by the Mexican drug trafficking organisations have come from the US.
But, of course, the truth is a bit different.
A source of the guns used by the cartels in Mexico is the US. But not gun shows:
The deadliest of the weapons now in the [...]

Alberto Gonzales (you remember him?) advocates a Southern Strategy (RACIST!!!) to keep Mexico secure. Blames the nonexistent gun show loophole.
The other biased Washington paper says that Hezbollah is using the same routes as Mexican drug gangs. Scary, if true.
ATF testified that the case of assault weapons flowing into Mexico was overstated. Now, a [...]

BBC:
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is pledging further effort to help Mexico in its anti-drugs campaign.
Mrs Clinton said the use of military-style assault weapons was a particular concern, and she would discuss reimposing a ban on their sale.
A previous US decision to lift a ban on such sales had been a mistake, she [...]

According to polls, the American people are not buying it:
The poll, which was conducted March 20-23 and has a margin of error of plus-or-minus 1.5 percentage points, asked 4,523 likely voters:
“Mexican officials, gun control groups and officials at the Department of Homeland Security claim drug cartels are crossing the U.S. border in order to obtain [...]

Once more, it’s misleading.
The other biased Washington paper reports:
Mexico has long tried to get the United States to curtail the number of guns – many purchased legally – that wind up south of the border, where gun laws are much stricter. The State Department says firearms obtained in the United States account for more than [...]

Paul Helmke of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Ownership advocates that the US should adopt some Mexican gun laws:

Sebastian reminds Paul that this would amount to a sweeping gun ban.

ATF and other federal agents are going to the border:
Hundreds of federal agents, along with high-tech surveillance gear and drug-sniffing dogs, are headed to the Southwest to help Mexico fight drug cartels and keep violence from spilling across the U.S.-Mexico border, Obama administration officials said Tuesday
Good. Meanwhile, other groups join in the chorus and blame [...]

More misrepresentation that rocket launchers are heading into Mexico from the US. Insty also says:
If rocket launchers and grenades are making it into Mexico from the United States, it’s because they’re being sold out the back door of military and police armories, since civilian gun stores don’t sell them.
Say, anyone know the rate of desertion [...]

A look at Mexican gun laws in action.
Meanwhile, insty notes that the canard of Military hardware flowing into Mexico from the US is being parroted by the press. The LA Times (yes, that LA Times) who is known to shill for any anti-gun cause notes:
Most of these weapons are being smuggled from Central American countries [...]

It keeps coming. Except that it’s not real. Testimony from law enforcement officials concludes that, generally, military hardware is not flowing into Mexico from the United States. We gun nuts have been saying that for years. More testimony here. The experts on the panel do not conclude that more gun control is the [...]

Scary:
Thousands of Mexican soldiers pour into the country’s most violent city in crackdown on drug gangs

The NYT dutifully parrots the Mexican gun canard. It’s dogma.
Also, our old friend ATF Special Agent Thomas G. Mangan is showing up again. It’s like there is this concerted effort at disinformation. Mangan stuff here and here.

SIH:
At a press conference announcing the arrests, Holder also suggested that re-instituting a U.S. ban on the sale of assault weapons would help reduce the bloodshed in Mexico, where last year 6,000 people were killed in drug-related violence.
Ah, the Mexican gun canard rears its head once again. I told you it was dogma and [...]

Or is it ignorance? CNN would have you believe you can walk right into a local gun shop or gun show and buy a bazooka. To ship to Mexico, of course.
This Mexican gun canard is now officially dogma. For a reason.

Remember, Mexican army has a lot of 50 calibers. Lots of deserters in their army. But obviously crime guns come from US gun shows.

The outright fabrication of blaming US for the fact that Mexican drug gangs are getting machine guns and grenades at US gun shows continues.
Meanwhile:
“The 5.7 x 28, armor piercing (AP) rounds are not available for sale to the general public and are probably coming from the Mexican military,”
Last week Gen. Ángeles Dahuajare announced [...]

In comments here, Curtis highlights this:
…she [Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano - ed.] will give Mexican authorities access to a government database to trace the U.S. origin of seized weapons.
And he responds with:
Is that the database that they weren’t legally supposed to build/maintain? Populated with data from 4473s and/or NICS checks – which data was [...]

Seen at GunPundit:
The country’s new homeland security chief said Friday that the Obama administration is mapping out a crackdown on the flow of firearms smuggled to Mexico’s murderous drug gangs operating along the Texas border.
Janet Napolitano said she had directed the Customs and Border Protection service “to find guns going south [...]

You would expect a retired general to know guns. You’d be wrong. He does, however, know his PSH:
Mexican law enforcement authorities and soldiers face heavily armed drug gangs with high-powered military automatic weapons. Perhaps 90% of these weapons are smuggled across the US border. They are frequently purchased from licensed US gun dealers in [...]

More from David Rittgers.

AR-57.
Custom .50 confiscated in Mexico.

Looks like the LA Times is the latest to perpetuate the automatic weapons and ammunition are flowing virtually unchecked from border states into Mexico lie. This canard has been debunked many times (here’s one).
Meanwhile, Sebastian notes: This narrative has been repeated in so many papers, presented in the exact same manner, you almost have [...]

Machine guns and grenades from the US flood Mexico. Trouble is, those are illegal here too. It’s a trend of the Mexican government to blame the US for all it’s gun issues even though it’s obvious the machine guns are not coming from here.
You know what would keep our guns out of Mexico, though? A [...]

My spanglish sucks and that’s google says.
Another piece (and recurring theme) in the press is that evil America is sending it’s evil guns across the Mexican border. Here’s one such bit:
At least 80 percent of all of the weapons used by drug traffickers in Mexico to kill one another as well as police and soldiers [...]

With apologies to George Lopez for the joke.
Doom and gloom at the border:
U.S. should focus on stemming gun flow, Mexico says
Drug-trade in Mexico kept alive by U.S. demand
Still No. 1; But that’s not a good thing – it’s in gunrunning
The hunt for guns; Fed agents busy trying to stymie local weapons trading
Mexican drugs: a smarter [...]

ATF actually goes after real gun crime!
More like that please. Of course, the article is filled with the usual PSH over assault weapons and cop killer handguns, which are illegal in the US. And this is unpossible:
“I just learned from Mexican authorities that more law enforcement officers were killed in Mexico last year than all [...]

ABC was busted before lying about the impact of the assault weapons ban. ABC news even moderating blog comments that corrected the errors. Well, they’re lying again and the video is here.
Confederate Yankee has a lot more:
Today, Ross and accomplice Richard Esposito continue that fine ABC News tradition of making up the news, in [...]

An added bonus to gun ownership is that it may keep the Europeans out:
“Mr Le Mière said that the US had fallen down the scale, although it still scored an average of 93 out of 100, partly because of the proliferation of small arms owned by Americans and the threat to the population posed by [...]

Mexico is upset that guns are getting into the country. They blame the US, of course. The US recently decided to give trace data to the Mexican .gov. But this is bullshit:
Officials said that many of the weapons – including powerful handguns and semiautomatic assault rifles – are purchased legally at shops and gun [...]

The US government has agreed to give access of trace data to Mexico:
US Attorney General Michael Mukasey said Mexican police who seized arms could use the system to notify the US who would then target the dealers.

So, it seems in Mexico, authorities are saying that the guns used in high profile crimes there originate in the US:
U.S. Guns Behind Cartel Killings in Mexico
Assassins blasted Ricardo Rosas Alvarado, a member of an elite state police force, with a blizzard of bullets pumped out of AK-47 assault rifles.
Alvarado crumpled at the wheel of [...]

I swear, I just saw this article a month ago, but now a new verion, with more pants shitting hysterics, has popped up in Forbes.  The gist of it is that guns from the United States are the source of most of the guns used in crime in Mexico.   Link to article here.
Authorities are sounding [...]

Or, as I like to call them, target generators.
I kid, I don’t actually shoot birds. Well, the flying ones. You know.
Update: And, to be clear, I’m pointing out that I don’t like birds. Not that I shoot Mexicans.

Me and some friends have a weekly [redacted] game. A bunch of guys sitting around drinking and [redacted]. We had one a bit back and one of my friends calls me up and says he’s got another player. I said Great, bring him on. My friend says He’s black. Is that [...]

Is there a stereotype about black people’s lawns always looking like shit? Because I’m thinking about starting one.
Update: Ok, ok, fine. It’s in bad taste. It’s a joke, get over it. BTW, the Mexicans who live up the street have an immaculate lawn.

Couple days ago, I met a third generation Mexican immigrant (legal). He didn’t speak Spanish. Ok, he said he didn’t.

Balko says he would deceive to be on a jury to nullify a law. Patterico says:
I have said I would support jury nullification in extremely rare and desperate situations, where the fabric of our society was falling apart and our laws were inconsistent with basic humanity. For example, I would not convict someone of [...]

Continuing the theme of all talk, no action comes news that New Mexico’s Governor vetoed an anti-eminent domain bill:
Governor Richardson has vetoed eminent domain legislation.
The measure was intended to prevent state and local governments from using their powers to take property for private development projects.
Richardson said yesterday a number of community officials opposed the measure.
He [...]

I love the spicy food. I also happen to have a pretty high tolerance for it. I’ve apparently passed that on to Junior. Last night, we went to a local Ameri-Mexican place (this stuff isn’t real Mexican food) and she started dipping her chips in the salsa, which I would classify as [...]

The AP:
AP Poll: Blacks Likelier to Celebrate MLK
And whites apparently notice that the banks aren’t open.
In other, other news: SayUncle discovers that Likelier is a real word.

An insane judge apparently signed a restraining order against David Letterman that was requested by an insane woman:
Late last week, a Santa Fe District Court judge signed a temporary restraining order against talk-show host David Letterman alleging he has tormented a city resident for more than 10 years by using code words on his television [...]

Cowboys take up AK-47s* to combat Mexican drug runners. And why:
Notoriously porous, the border has reached new levels of lawlessness this year as smugglers, known as “coyotes”, have become increasingly brazen, willing to fire on anyone – from border patrols to the likes of Mr McCaslin – who gets in their way
*The gun in [...]

of us gun types: at what point do you start shooting the bastards? The line typically drawn by us gun types is when they come to take our guns. Hence, from my cold dead hands. So, via everyone in the blogosphere it seems, comes this:
Waters were receding across this flood-beaten city [...]

Et tu, Mexico (see post below):
Mexico’s strict gun control laws are contributing to an illegal gun market and easier access to weapons, according to U.S. law enforcement officials that are close observers of a recent upswing in border violence.
Since January, more than 600 people have been killed in an ongoing war between rival drug cartels [...]

you could knock a helicopter out of the sky with a well-placed rock. He would know since he was in four of them when they went down. In New Mexico, someone shot one out of the sky:
A Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Department helicopter that crashed Saturday in the yard of an Albuquerque home was [...]

Blogs have been all over the para-military, drug forces that switched sides for a while now. Now, some press is picking up on it. Jerry Seper:
A renegade band of Mexican military deserters, offering $50,000 bounties for the assassination of U.S. law-enforcement officers, has expanded its base of operations into the United States to [...]

Pete reports some pretty disheartening news. The US spent money and resources to train Mexican drug warriors as commandos to stop (i.e., kill) drug dealers. The problem with this is that drugs are lucrative so the commandos switched sides and are headed to the border:
a group of rogue Mexican military commandos may be [...]

The Minutemen are planning on expanding to the Canadian border:
A controversial civilian patrol group that has been monitoring the Mexican border for illegal immigrants is looking to expand its mission to the Canadian border, organizers said Tuesday.
Minuteman Project leaders said their volunteers this month alerted federal authorities to more than 330 cases of illegal [...]

The Minutemen project has been, at least to me, interesting. Below is some interesting reading on them.
It resulted in drop in illegal border crossing and the Confederate Yankee notes:
The drop in attempted illegal border crossings and number of volunteer-related apprehensions speaks volumes of the success of the MinuteMan Project, but perhaps the best testimony [...]

I was never particularly excited about the Minuteman Project, where citizens patrol the border because our government is doing a crappy job of it. The president called them vigilantes but, with the president’s failure to take adequate steps to secure the borders, consider the source. The real significance of the Minuteman project is [...]

Mexican people endure quite a bit to come to this great nation of ours. They come here with a dream to work hard and earn a living. In Vegas that dream apparently involves standing on a street corner passing out pamphlets containing hardcore pornography that advertise in room strippers and escorts, which you [...]

As a reader of this blog, you know that I can’t. I do wish that I could. I’ve got this idea for a book; or movie; or short story; or, heck, even a song. I’ve never written any of these before (OK, I’ve written contributed to a few songs) and suffer from [...]

She compares daycare centers to Nazi Germany. And don’t forget to read this, excerpt:
Dear Dr. Laura:
[snip]
Lev. 25:44 states that I may indeed possess slaves, both male and female, provided they are purchased from neighbouring nations. A friend of mine claims that this applies to Mexicans, but not Canadians. Can you clarify? Why can’t I [...]

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