Gunmen rob police in Mexico

[Bold Lib]

http://sify.com/news/gunmen-rob-police-in-mexico-news-international-kj2mucecjic.html

Mexico City, Sep 28 (IANS/EFE) Gunmen stormed a police headquarters in the northern Mexico and escaped with around 70 firearms, officials said.

The criminals took assault rifles, pistols and tactical equipment from the state police headquarters in Chihuahua early Monday, an official spokesman said.



This is very brazen but they did it with little (no)resistance and no one was hurt. Two things strike me.

First, was there some inside contact that allowed this?
Second, since it seems to have been so easy, will we see more of it?

[lawodevolution]

1. stop it!

NO! all guns in mexico come from gun shows!

[Remmah2]

3. Maybe they'll resell the guns at a Texas gun show.

Along with the tanks, missles and gernade launchers some people think are sold at the common gun shows.

[provis99]

7. haven't seen tanks, but I've seen missles and grenade launchers for sale.

Though this is at a Knoxville gun show, not Texas.

[X_Digger]

8. WW II inert dummy rounds or replicas, maybe.

The real things are very rare and very tightly regulated.

You knew that, right?

[SteveM]

9. And they get all those full-auto weapons from Academy Sports & Outdoors!

[TheWraith]

2. My bullshit detector is going off.

The Mexican police and military are notoriously corrupt and infiltrated by cartel troops. It could just as easily turn out to be that the "police" stole or sold the weapons, then reported a theft in order to cover it up.

[proteus_lives]

4. That scenario is equally valid.

[Bold Lib]

5. Hadn't considered that option, but it is very plausible.

What a sad state of affairs Mexico is in.

[krispos42]

6. Brady headline: "70 more US weapons found in hands of Mexican drug gangs".

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