John Farnham writes [via ammoland.com]:
Mexico is currently, via TV ads, desperately, almost hopelessly, trying to lure skeptical American tourists. Understandable, since the entire tourist industry south of the border, due to relentless, dramatic, and widespread violence, has all but dried up. Follow that with the U.S. State Department’s Travel Warning and tourism is way down.
https://youtu.be/NVX3BjruAVE
Competing drug-gangs are using high-profile, ghastly, tortuous murders as a kind of “terrorism theater” in order to gain status and intimidate rival gangs, along with citizens , and even police.The government’s “fight” against them is mostly in vain.
Mexico’s highways are bearing a close resemblance to those depicted in Mad Max And, Mexico’s immemorial corruption and incompetence, at all levels of government, insures nothing will improve any time soon.
https://youtu.be/64iR1mjBa14
Even well-known tourist areas are blatantly unsafe. Border towns, which used to be regularly frequented by hordes of American tourists, are now virtual ghost-towns. Formally trendy hotels and restaurants are boarded-up and rotting away.
Residents of CA, AZ, TX, and NM who live near our “border” with Mexico had better be preparing for drug-gang violence overflowing into the CONUS (Continental United States). Drug cartels do not recognize international borders.
Why should they?
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Too late, Mexico is already here.
Yeah, here in Texas I’m surrounded by Mexicans and their culture. No need to travel South of the border to sample the food or gang violence.
Correct – we don’t have to go there.
They are coming/have come to us.
Just depends on where you live in the US.
Oh we don’t discriminate if we haven’t reached your home town yet you won’t have to wait much longer. I’m always being suprised as I travel this great country and find dense Latino populations in places i didn’t think there would be.
Yeah, no. Love how a group always thinks they can make everything/everyway better by just showing up, yet their nation/area of the world is a hellhole. Makes your think, doesn`t?
Looks like the issue from an Honor Guard+Shield+P7 three way.
“You say you want a revolution…..”
“…..you can count me out.”
I avoid travel to Old Mexico for either work or pleasure and actively discourage others from making the journey. And I’m someone who always had a great trip there many years ago.
Here’s a statistic: 100% of the crack cocaine and heroin in Chirac is illegal….😳
Using the mexican immigrants ,as an example, and them being such hard working , friendly, law abiding and trust worthy people, I just can’t understand why Mexico would have any problems at all. ?
That would be true of the LEGAL immigrants! Illegal immigrants are a coin toss, there are good people and bad.
One of my dream guns is still a Model 1 International in 3006.
I often work in NYC and carry regardless.
I’m there back and forth on a regular basis for LEGITIMATE business and let me just say don’t believe everything you read on the Internet. The locals are incredibly friendly and the quality of life is great. Just like anywhere there are good places and bad places, poor people rich people ect ect. Little known fact mexico has amazing hunting land. Oh and the women are drop dead gorgeous.
I lived there for five years just a while back. A tourist is rarely exposed to violence but the corruption and overall dysfunction are readily apparent if one pays attention. I too found folks friendly as anywhere else but also desperate for a better place. Mexican politics makes US politics look like an Andy Griffith show version. Small towns are often feudal like holdings of one family. Every time a mayor of a medium size or larger town leaves office all of the towns cash goes with him. The teachers are usually completely unqualified and inherit their license from an older relative and are pretty close to killing to keep that privilege. They have make work programs like no self serve gas stations allowed which drives up prices. Nationalization of the oil industry did nothing for the consumer, it just lined the pockets of oligarchs. Checking the documentation of boats in a marina usually takes dozens of agents and a platoon of marines. I guess they want to make sure no one complains about the arbitrary fines. The crime rate is also indeed much higher there. They even had to put special tops on liquor bottles to make sure that bars and restaurants had a harder time putting water or cheaper liquor in the bottles. The women are no better looking than anywhere in Alabama. Obesity has exceeded US proportions. Sorry, but not much to be proud of there Chico.
“Mexico: Don’t Go There!”
No worries, no intention to…
It looks cool…too bad it’s Springfield😡Oh and the Illinois licensing scam er scheme is back on. Thanks Springfield…
Mine’s in .303 British. Late 19th century rifle in a late 19th century caliber. I’d like to add a .375 H&H and maybe one with the manlicher stock, maybe the .257 Roberts from a couple years ago. Look around on GunBroker and you’ll find plenty of new two year old rifles.
The safety usually stops the ejected case with the rimmed cartridges.
Trump should lean on Mexico to allow U.S. citizens to go armed there, since plainly Mexico can’t guarantee a safe visit.
And boy, would that make our anti-gunners scream!
Spent over 20 years in El Paso, TX. Still the old West, at least 1/3 the population is armed. El Paso makes the list of top 10 safest large cities every year.
Across the Rio Grande in old Mexico is Ciudad Juarez. Firearms are strictly forbidden in Mexico. Several years ago Juarez was the most dangerous city in the world! Juarez was averaging more than 8 murders per day. El Paso had 7 murders for the entire year.
The murder rate in Juarez has fallen greatly since El Presidente pulled the federal troops (peacekeepers) out of the city.
El Pasoans avoid Mexico unless they have roots there.
Sure Looks Like a Shit-Ton Of American-Manufactured AR-15s/M-16s Being Used By Those Drug Cartels Thugs…
Mostly “stolen” from the Mexican Army and police.
this story cannot be true, Mexico has strict gun control and only one gun store in the entire country, so there is no way there could be all this violence!
? I’m pretty sure once convicted of domestic violence your gun rights are gone forever. The State you live in may not take your gun rights away but the federal level does. It’s a fucked up law, it’s a misdeamnor that carries a felony sentence. Recently my X wife called the law on me for an argument we were having, her friends had told her how to get even, ” Slap or scratch yourself, tear your shirt, call cops, he’ll go to jail.” And I did, luckily she did not show up for court and case dismissed.. this DV law was passed during the Clinton régime and a great way to snatch guns. It needs revised,.
I have nothing against the Mexican people. I love the food. and some of the women, well they are beautiful. but the government, with it’s corruption, and the corruption in the law enforcement, well no wonder they want to come here. but they actually do have the right to keep and bear arms in their country , but they require a long back ground check, and they can only go to the one gun store in mexico city which is manned by the corrupted army. and most Mexicans do not know that. the government really does not tell them. I mean after all , do you want them to defend themselves against the cartels that are lining the corrupt government’s pockets. they might kill the guy bringing the money. and it kinda reminds me alittle of our own democractic party.
Except of course that Chicago no longer has the strictest gun laws in the country. After McDonald, it mostly lost its home rule power with state pre-emption. The laws banning ownership of handguns are history, and “shall issue” CCWs are the law of the land. Rahm has only been successful in banning them on public transit.
Remington needs to find a niche that needs filling.
So, what Samantha is saying is that background checks are not grounded in reality due to others in the lives of shooters buying guns for them despite it being against the law. Got it.
Meh. Another “me too” commodity plastic 9mm. not even worth an article.
Gotta love the Scorpion as a trunk/truck gun. I’m still thinking about getting another for that same purpose since my current one is SBR’ed and my proximity to a neighboring state precludes my hauling it routinely.
Old squadron buddy who lives in Denver area reported police took five hours clearing the store, before they allowed anyone back in. He sent me this little snippet:
“In the Thursday press conference, Avila added that other people in the store with guns, who had been carrying them with concealed carry permits, slowed the process of finding a suspect.”
Nothing from any of those detained, nor why police knew they were carrying firearms.
How disingenuous or disconnected. Goldberg is a very wealthy, very connected, very prominent member of the elite. When someone mis-transcribes a serial number on some rusty old crime scene snubbie, absolutely no one is going to kick in her front door in the middle of the night, looking for an illegal firearms transaction. If some new law means some old thing is no longer legal, her address will be the absolute last one visited. If she doesn’t understand this, then she is duller than dull.
Brady background check for new sales, don’t have a huge issue with it, the camel’s nose is under the tent already. I do have an issue with the private sales, because now we are talking a registry. This would give the anti-gunners a huge hard-on if they could account for 90-95% of the gun stocks. I also believe if someone wanted to sell something on the private market, you should be able to visit a website and get a yea or nay answer on an individual. Keep the documentation for 10 year period, that you checked. It is the same if you are shipping something to an out of state FFL, you can verify that he exist and does business at this address. This also should not have a fee. The biggest unintended consequence of background checks in California is $35 fee, everybody wants you to take that loss as the seller, so I never sell anything. So they are making ‘Super Owners’ due to their laws. Oh, and don’t forget about the ammo hoarders now, new laws will have people keeping 10,000 – 100,000 rounds on hand now.
We are were never safe, but we were much safer before the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965. The US is not really a nation anymore. We have turned into an economic zone where citizenship and residency are handed out like corporate ID badges. The family, shared heritage, Western principles aren’t valued anymore. It’s just about tax farming and corporate productivity now. In a hundred years, the erasure of American distinctiveness will be a cautionary tale Eastern European, Russian, and Chinese parents tell their kids why they must not lose sight of who they are as a people.
Nobody is completely safe. We all just strive to be as safe as we can be under the circumstances.
The difference between we and they is that we know that the G doesn’t make us safer, while they believe that the G has our best interests at heart.
I guess it’s true: There’s a sucker born every minute.
I know some people that have a gun for work, but no personal weapons.
Not all people buying their first gun are beginners. They may have experience with firearms, but not own any of their own.
I know…probably a minority of buyers fall into this class…but it does exist.
1. WE THE PEOPLE ARE THE LAW! we make them , not the government. so yes we need to be armed . and yes the armed people saved more lives in that Walmart. so keep carrying the guns people.( but make sure you know the laws surrounding their use, please, because we don’t want to give any thing to the commie bastards in this country to use against us). be observant of your surroundings, and be careful , and stay safe. and God bless all of you.