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skip fox

(19,356 posts)
Fri Jun 26, 2020, 07:04 PM Jun 2020

Over ten-thousand assault weapons on their way to Florida were interdicted

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142524311

What do you think was (is?) going on? If we're lucky it's just the mob running and selling guns to armored car and bank robbers.

Otherwise someone is outfitting a small army!!

(And these are only the weapons that have been caught.)

And the fourth of July is a week away!
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Over ten-thousand assault weapons on their way to Florida were interdicted (Original Post) skip fox Jun 2020 OP
McConnell to Desantis, bound for Venezuela, late to the coup attempt LuvLoogie Jun 2020 #1
Interesting. skip fox Jun 2020 #2
The written story was incorrect hardluck Jun 2020 #3
I'm still saying Venezuela-bound, but now without a home. LuvLoogie Jun 2020 #5
Ok. hardluck Jun 2020 #6
Don't know either, but I'm going with it. LuvLoogie Jun 2020 #8
Here's the Customs News Release- parts not guns hardluck Jun 2020 #4
Why are they going through Kentucky? Bev54 Jun 2020 #7
I think it's more a McConnell DeSantis connection. LuvLoogie Jun 2020 #9
I was thinking Moscow mitch and his wife Bev54 Jun 2020 #10
What "parts"? Fla_Democrat Jun 2020 #11

LuvLoogie

(6,992 posts)
1. McConnell to Desantis, bound for Venezuela, late to the coup attempt
Fri Jun 26, 2020, 07:17 PM
Jun 2020

Check the fate of the indicted ex-Green Beret caught with other American on failed raid against Maduro.

trump is cutting loose his flunkies in his proxy war.

hardluck

(638 posts)
3. The written story was incorrect
Fri Jun 26, 2020, 07:26 PM
Jun 2020

The actual video states it is “assault weapon parts” not “assault weapons” as stated in the written article. This makes sense because the individual value of 10,800 assault weapons appraised at $129,600 would be $12.

The video also shows the individual bags of parts.

LuvLoogie

(6,992 posts)
5. I'm still saying Venezuela-bound, but now without a home.
Fri Jun 26, 2020, 07:37 PM
Jun 2020

Perhaps to be distributed to the home grown militias. There will be no tracing of the seizure.

hardluck

(638 posts)
6. Ok.
Fri Jun 26, 2020, 07:41 PM
Jun 2020

Not sure why unnamed $12 parts for an unspecified assault weapon would be shipped the the US enroute to Venezuela but ok.

LuvLoogie

(6,992 posts)
8. Don't know either, but I'm going with it.
Fri Jun 26, 2020, 08:00 PM
Jun 2020
https://apnews.com/79346b4e428676424c0e5669c80fc310

MIAMI (AP) — The plan was simple, but perilous. Some 300 heavily armed volunteers would sneak into Venezuela from the northern tip of South America. Along the way, they would raid military bases in the socialist country and ignite a popular rebellion that would end in President Nicolás Maduro’s arrest.

What could go wrong? As it turns out, pretty much everything.

The ringleader of the plot is now jailed in the U.S. on narcotics charges. Authorities in the U.S. and Colombia are asking questions about the role of his muscular American adviser, a former Green Beret. And dozens of desperate combatants who flocked to secret training camps in Colombia said they have been left to fend for themselves amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Bev54

(10,045 posts)
7. Why are they going through Kentucky?
Fri Jun 26, 2020, 07:52 PM
Jun 2020

Is that normal? or am I making too much of the connection between KY and China with certain persons?

LuvLoogie

(6,992 posts)
9. I think it's more a McConnell DeSantis connection.
Fri Jun 26, 2020, 08:04 PM
Jun 2020

Maybe Jared had something to do with it, trump trying to prop up his own S.A. strong man.

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