Mother Jones On “High-Caliber Rifles”
BY Herschel Smith
8 years, 10 months ago
The cartels’ weapons of choice are high-caliber rifles, including AR-15 and AK-47-type semiautomatic rifles, which can be easily converted into fully automatic machine guns. The cartel’s gunrunners often buy firearms legally in the United States, either at gun shops, gun shows, or in private sales. The firearms are then illegally shipped across the border.
But it gets better. Commenter Aquarian Dreamer said:
usually ‘High-Caliber’ is used to reference impact power, which until the late 19th usually meant larger ammunition. that changed as aerodynamics became better defined, and rifle power became less about bigger ammo with more gunpowder packed behind.
“Impact Power.” “Aerodynamics became better defined.” It’s sort of like that little puppy who is just learning to walk but still bumps into things, vomits and shits on the rug. Maddening, but in some weird, freakish way, adorable nonetheless.
Prior:
High Magazine Clips And The Shoulder Thing That Goes Up
Automatic Bullets In Rapid-Fire Magazine Clips
On January 13, 2016 at 1:19 am, rumcrookâ„¢ said:
The other huge lie they are pushing is that 70% of the guns in mexico used by cartels come from the United states, in fact it’s 20%
On January 13, 2016 at 7:39 am, UNCLEELMO said:
But… but… before the ‘botched sting operation’, President Obama told us it was 90%!!!
He wouldn’t lie to me, would he???
On January 13, 2016 at 7:54 pm, Travis Lee said:
Or more precisely, from the Mexican Army which gets them from the US Government.
On January 13, 2016 at 7:32 am, UNCLEELMO said:
Just wait ’til they discover ‘ballistick cofishent’.
On January 13, 2016 at 8:30 am, RM said:
“The cartel’s gunrunners often buy firearms legally in the United States,
either at gun shops, gun shows, or in private sales. The firearms are
then illegally shipped across the border.”
I knew Mother Jones would get around to reporting on “FAST and FURIOUS ” eventually.
On January 13, 2016 at 10:38 am, Toastrider said:
Heh. And I’ve always held that to be a crock of shit. Why on earth would the cartels bother with that? Much easier and safer to suborn a Mexican army quartermaster and have actual military grade hardware ‘fall off a truck’, rather than send Jose across the border for a relative handful of semi auto rifles.
And that’s assuming the cartels don’t have a hook into the Russian arms trade, either…
On January 13, 2016 at 7:57 pm, guest said:
Well, then, too, I suppose there are narco-gangsters, and then there are narco-gangsters. For the small fish, yes, I can see it’s halfway sorta plausible that–given that BATFE was all but driving truckloads of AR15s and semiauto AKs down to Tijuana and hawking them in the town square–yeah, I can see the little fish obtaining a rifle or two by that means. At the other end, if you’re Pablo Escobar, and you have warehouses full of suitcases full of hundred-dollar bills, yeah, you just send a couple soldiers with a paper bag full of cash to bribe the quartermaster sergeant on some Mexican army base to look the other way while they load up a truck–or just call up Vladimir Putin, or Norinco, and ask them if they want their payment in cash or cocaine.
On January 13, 2016 at 9:03 am, Haywood Jablome said:
“It’s sort of like that little puppy who is just learning to walk but still bumps into things, vomits and shits on the rug. Maddening, but in some weird, freakish way, adorable nonetheless”
I just spit my coffee on my tablet……..
On January 13, 2016 at 3:54 pm, Phil Ossiferz Stone said:
Wait until the blue-state fascists discover handloading.
On January 13, 2016 at 4:26 pm, Dana King said:
No kidding!
On January 13, 2016 at 3:59 pm, Dennis said:
These two yos speak dumb ass fluently….
On January 13, 2016 at 7:52 pm, guest said:
“Adorable” is not a word I’d use for Bolshevik agitprop and lies.