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ck4829

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Fri Feb 7, 2025, 05:26 PM Feb 2025

Quartermasters of the cartels - US gun manufacturers. Mexico suing American gun manufacturers as US fights fentanyl flow

As the United States battles the flow of Fentanyl into the nation from Mexico, the Mexican government is fighting to halt the surge of American guns coming into its country.

Following an agreement to pause tariffs against Mexico, President Donald Trump announced Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum’s promise to send 10,000 troops to the border to combat drug trafficking.

Now, Sheinbaum is demanding action to curb the flow of American firearms into her country, even so far as to sue American gun manufacturers.

A retired U.S. federal official told The Wall Street Journal many of the tens of millions of guns sold in the United States each year get smuggled into other countries with tighter gun control.

https://san.com/cc/mexico-suing-american-gun-manufacturers-as-us-fights-fentanyl-flow/

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Quartermasters of the cartels - US gun manufacturers. Mexico suing American gun manufacturers as US fights fentanyl flow (Original Post) ck4829 Feb 2025 OP
Will/can it work? efhmc Feb 2025 #1
I'm skeptical. We can't even make cases against Trump stick. Even if someone wins a suit, he avoids paying up Attilatheblond Feb 2025 #3
CBP has road checkpoints for vehicles heading north in this part of AZ. But not enough checking cars headed south Attilatheblond Feb 2025 #2

Attilatheblond

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3. I'm skeptical. We can't even make cases against Trump stick. Even if someone wins a suit, he avoids paying up
Fri Feb 7, 2025, 05:41 PM
Feb 2025

Ditto Rudy. Pretty sure gun industry has better lawyers than either of those two losers.

Attilatheblond

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2. CBP has road checkpoints for vehicles heading north in this part of AZ. But not enough checking cars headed south
Fri Feb 7, 2025, 05:39 PM
Feb 2025

Every now and then, we read some people got busted for hauling arms TO Mexico. They are always US citizens, out to make a score despite the damage they are doing by keeping cartels armed and extremely dangerous. All hail the $$!

And, yeah, the gun dealers around here probably know that big purchasers are smuggling arms. I recall that the store where the Uvalde shooter bought his weapon of mass murder was already under investigation for a history of very large sales of guns and ammunition. ATF was already watching them.

It is US citizens who create the market for the drugs coming north. And it is US citizens helping cartels by smuggling guns and bullets to them.

The problem is not rooted in brown people. The problem is us, for making the whole circular crime activity profitable.

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