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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOver ten-thousand assault weapons on their way to Florida were interdicted
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142524311What 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
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LuvLoogie
(6,992 posts)1. McConnell to Desantis, bound for Venezuela, late to the coup attempt
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.
skip fox
(19,356 posts)2. Interesting.
hardluck
(638 posts)3. The written story was incorrect
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.
Perhaps to be distributed to the home grown militias. There will be no tracing of the seizure.
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.
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 Maduros 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.
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 Maduros 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.
hardluck
(638 posts)4. Here's the Customs News Release- parts not guns
Bev54
(10,045 posts)7. Why are they going through Kentucky?
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.
Maybe Jared had something to do with it, trump trying to prop up his own S.A. strong man.
Bev54
(10,045 posts)10. I was thinking Moscow mitch and his wife
Fla_Democrat
(2,547 posts)11. What "parts"?
Going to need more information before I lose any sleep over it.