{"id":86410,"date":"2022-10-06T09:55:47","date_gmt":"2022-10-06T14:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=86410"},"modified":"2022-10-06T09:55:47","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T14:55:47","slug":"86410","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=86410","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Mexican official says new lawsuit against US gunmakers is on the way<\/a><\/p>\n

There\u2019s no reason to believe the outcome will be any different than the first lawsuit that the administration of Andr\u00e9s Manuel L\u00f3pez Obrador brought against U.S. gun makers; a\u00a0dismissal of the case<\/a>\u00a0long before it ever reached trial. Still, with AMLO\u2019s cartel strategy of \u201chugs, not bullets\u201d resulting in\u00a0even more cartel violence<\/a>, it\u2019s no surprise that he and other officials are trying to distract from their own failures by pinning the blame on the US firearms industry.<\/p>\n

Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard told the Mexican Senate on Wednesday that the government\u2019s next lawsuit will be filed in\u00a0the border state of Arizona<\/a>, though he didn\u2019t say whether any gun control groups will be a part of this new effort as they were the first time around.<\/p>\n

During his speech on Wednesday, Ebrard referred to a bipartisan package of gun safety measures passed by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Joe Biden in June. The law blocks gun sales to those convicted of abusing unmarried intimate partners and cracks down on gun sales to purchasers convicted of domestic violence.<\/p>\n

\u201cIllicit arms trafficking is already a crime in the United States,\u201d Ebrard said.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou have to start establishing criminal responsibilities because the companies that are selling these weapons in these counties (in Arizona), which are very few, of course they know where those weapons are going,\u201d he added, but did not specify which companies he was referring to.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ebrard makes it sound as if there are no laws whatsoever governing gun sales from licensed firearms retailers, even though border state gun dealers not only have to follow the long list of federal regulations surrounding firearm transfers, but even have special requirements placed on them like reporting multiple sales of modern sporting rifles to the ATF.<\/p>\n

Frankly, if he really wants to talk about establishing criminal responsibilities, I\u2019d say he should start much closer to home and crack down on the graft, corruption, and theft within the\u00a0Mexican armed forces<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Mexico has just\u00a0one firearm retailer<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0in the entire country. That\u2019s in the heart of Mexico City and is encamped in the middle of a military base. Still, guns are being recovered and it turns out that Mexico\u2019s military is a source. Mexico\u2019s Army is losing\u00a0approximately 30<\/strong>percent<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0of their firearms purchased from U.S. manufacturers. Those firearms are being recovered in crime scenes across the country. Firearms manufactured in the United States and sold lawfully through military contracts aren\u2019t the only ones. Other firearms from manufacturers based in Australia, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Romania and Spain are also being recovered at crime scenes.<\/p>\n

The fact that these firearms are being \u201clost\u201d by the Mexican Army is worth noting, since it is only the Mexican Army that can purchase these firearms.<\/p>\n

The report of these firearms going missing came from Mexican journalist\u00a0Carlos Loret De Mola<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0and was reported by\u00a0Breitbart<\/a>.<\/strong>\u00a0That report also indicated that it is only the Mexican Army that can sell firearms and that an office called CENAPI, that resides within that of the Mexican Attorney General Alejandro Gertz Gomez, tracks firearms recovered at crime scenes but Loret De Mola claims that information is being suppressed because of Mexico\u2019s pending lawsuit against U.S. manufacturers. CENAPI reportedly denied Loret De Mola\u2019s request for information about recovered firearms in what is being termed as a way to cover up the Mexican Army\u2019s role in gun trafficking.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ebrard, of course, never mentioned the theft of military arms in his speech to the Mexican Senate. Why would he? This is about blaming American gun makers for the failures of Mexico\u2019s government and for the actions of violent cartel members, not accepting responsibility for\u00a0the abysmal failures<\/a>\u00a0of AMLO\u2019s \u201chugs, not bullets\u201d strategy.<\/p>\n

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Attackers gunned down a mayor, his father and 16 other people in the southern Mexico state of Guerrero on Wednesday, authorities said.<\/p>\n

State Attorney General Sandra Luz Valdovinos told Milenio television late Wednesday that 18 people were killed and two were wounded in the town of San Miguel Totolapan. Among the dead were Mayor Conrado Mendoza and his father, a former mayor of the town, she said. Two additional people were wounded.<\/p>\n

Images from the scene showed a bullet-riddled city hall.<\/p>\n

Later Wednesday, in the neighboring state of Morelos, a state lawmaker was shot to death in the city of Cuernavaca south of Mexico City.<\/p>\n

While attacks on public officials are not uncommon in Mexico, these come at a time when the security strategy of President Andr\u00e9s Manuel L\u00f3pez Obrador is being sharply debated. The president has placed tremendous responsibility on the armed forces rather than civilian police for reining in Mexico\u2019s persistently high levels of violence.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

That would be the same armed forces that are \u201closing\u201d almost a third of its weapons, by the way, though one of the reasons why Obrador shifted the primary responsibility to the military is because Mexico\u2019s police forces are also rife with corruption and have their own problems with\u00a0guns disappearing<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Honestly, maybe it\u2019s time for the firearms industry to deploy the Barrett Option. After the state of California banned the civilian possession of .50 caliber rifles, Barrett Manufacturing\u2019s Ronnie Barrett decided that his company would no longer sell or service any of their .50 BMGs to any California law enforcement agency. If the government in Mexico wants to blame U.S. gunmakers for cartel violence while failing to control the weapons under government control, then perhaps these companies should inform the Obrador administration that they will no longer be selling\u00a0any\u00a0<\/em>arms or ammunition to the Mexican military or law enforcement; at least not until it can demonstrate that the guns delivered to Mexico\u2019s military will not end up in the hands of the drug cartels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mexican official says new lawsuit against US gunmakers is on the way There\u2019s no reason to believe the outcome will be any different than the first lawsuit that the administration of Andr\u00e9s Manuel L\u00f3pez Obrador brought against U.S. gun makers; a\u00a0dismissal of the case\u00a0long before it ever reached trial. Still, with AMLO\u2019s cartel strategy of … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,11,9,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-courts","category-crap-for-brains","category-enemies-foreign-domestic","category-goobermint"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86411,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86410\/revisions\/86411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}