San Antone News - Current gun laws being enforced

[Xela]

Good news from down south.

Xela

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Full Article:
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/mexico/Windshield_repairman_admits_gun-smuggling.html

HOUSTON — A Houston windshield repairman has admitted to helping manage a part of a broader conspiracy to traffic more than 300 military-style weapons across the border, part of a plea deal requiring him to tell federal agents about the ring that supplied weapons to Mexico's fearsome Zetas drug cartel.

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The case began in 2007 during a routine inspection of files at Carter's County, a firearms dealer, according to court papers. ATF agents noticed numerous large cash purchases for what the agency considers cartel weapons of choice.

Purchasers were brazen, with thousands of dollars in cash, according to the papers.

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[bluestateguy]

1. Amazing what can be accomplished by just enforicng the laws already on the books

Of course, that's not as dramatic as whining for ever more gun laws.

[taurus145]

3. Bbbbbbut

More gun laws make us all feel safer.

Forget if they work or serve any useful purpose at all. We just want to feel safer, dontchaknow.

[TheWraith]

2. They claim this guy was approached by the cartel. I doubt it.

More likely he was approached by somebody claiming to represent the cartel, but wanted to be a middleman in order to make a profit. If the cartels really wanted to organize smuggling, they could get better weapons from South America--which isn't to say that they won't take lower grade weapons supplied to them from elsewhere.

[RaleighNCDUer]

4. FYI

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=118x273868