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7. The NRA/2A/MAGA morons will be up in arms over any crackdown on gun sales.

Reply to Jilly_in_VA (Original post)

Mon Feb 3, 2025, 01:54 PM

Feb 2025

Most of these firearms are acquired legally from gun stores in U.S. border states by straw buyers with no criminal history, then "transferred" (sold at a profit) to smugglers who take them across the border into Mexico. It's a very profitable business. Trump's ATF won't do much to stop it.

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Trump's Tariffs in Chaos Already After Stock Markets Plunge [View all] Jilly_in_VA Feb 2025 OP

Can't find it at the moment but saw a stat that 80+% of fetanyl that crosses border is brought in by US citizens. NoMoreRepugs Feb 2025 #1

Less than 1% of fentanyl comes over Canadian border to US. Gun traffic much worse the other way Bernardo de La Paz Feb 2025 #5

What is your definition of the stock market tanking? MichMan Feb 2025 #2

They dropped at the threat and rebounded after the pause LeftInTX Feb 2025 #4

So, pretty much what the stock market does every week MichMan Feb 2025 #8

He and his gang made untold millions from that little market manipulation dalton99a Feb 2025 #3

Buy low as they say and that's what happened.... LeftInTX Feb 2025 #6

The NRA/2A/MAGA morons will be up in arms over any crackdown on gun sales. sop Feb 2025 #7