Gypsy Jan - 2-2-2012 at 08:14 PM
Mexican customs seizes arsenal at border
More than 9,400 live rounds, four rifles found in car trunk
Por: Alexandra Mendoza 1 Febrero 2012 @ 2:21 pm
Mexican customs agents seized at arsenal at the border crossing from San Diego to Tijuana. Alexandra Mendoza / SanDiegoRed.com
TIJUANA-- Mexican customs agents seized an arsenal that included 9,400 live rounds and four rifles at the border crossing from San Diego to Tijuana,
according to federal authorities.
"The federal revenue department known as SAT, which includes the customs agency, issued a press release Tuesday announcing the seizure at Puerta
México but gave few details.
The agency said that a vehicle with California plates entered Tijuana through one of the lanes motorists use when they have nothing to declare. The
lanes are controlled by traffic signals that alternate between green and red. When a motorist gets a red light, a customs agent inspects the vehicle.
The vehicle apparently got a red light and was inspected by an agent, who found in the trunk more than 9,400 live rounds of various calibers, a 12
gauge shotgun, .300 mm rifle, a .223 mm rifle, a scope, a carbine and revolver, both .22 caliber, plus more than 60 spent 5.56 mm rifle shells, the
announcement said.
The arsenal was turned over to federal judicial authorities. The announcement did not say when the seizure occurred or indicate if there were any
arrests.
Mexican customs agents have seized more than 527,000 rounds at border crossings in the last six years, the announcement said.
Both American and Mexican authorities say smugglers are delivering weapons and ammunition from the United States to organized crime groups in Mexico,
who use them to wage their violent campaign against rival gangs and law enforcement officers."
alexandra.mendoza@sandiegored.com
[Edited on 2-3-2012 by Gypsy Jan]
Oddjob - 2-2-2012 at 08:46 PM
Fast and Furious lives on.
Diver - 2-2-2012 at 09:22 PM
Funny there's no mention of the evil "gringos" smuggling american guns ? 
I wonder ?
CortezBlue - 2-2-2012 at 09:56 PM
I would hardly call 4 rifles and 9400 rounds and arsenal.
And, I love the term "Live Rounds"
As if they would be dead rounds.
sorry the devil made me comment
Woooosh - 2-2-2012 at 11:05 PM
considering how few bullets a cop gets rationed in Mexico- 9,400 rounds would supply the whole Baja police force for a year or three.
What Reporting Crap
bajaguy - 2-3-2012 at 06:05 AM
A 300mm rifle?????......a 223mm rifle?????
A 300mm rifle would have a bore of 11.80 inches. WWII US Cruisers had 8 inch guns...........
223mm is a little over 8 inches .................
Inaccurate reporting puts the rest of the story in question, and I agree that 4 weapons is hardly an arsenal.
bonanza bucko - 2-3-2012 at 07:06 AM
Yer basic reporter/reporterette is a technodummy almost all of the time. Obviously the rounds were .300 Winchester magnum and .223. The .300 Win Mag
is a pretty good hunting round for large game. The .223 is the USA's standard military round. But it's not much good...it's even illegal for deer
hunting in Goofafornia and most other places because it doesn't pack much punch. The .223 was "accepted" by the military because you can carry a lot
more rounds in that size than you can in the old 30.06 or .308 that won WWII.
Both of those rounds would be pretty good for use by drug cartel or a gang.
The thought advanced by the press usually is that all the bad guys in Mexico get their weapons from us nasty Gringos when the fact is that most of
their toys come from Venezuela, China, Russia, Bulgaria and other places where good ole Boris Badinov is currently hiding.
BB
David K - 2-3-2012 at 07:25 AM
Because the car had California plates also does not mean the driver was a 'gringo'.
paranewbi - 2-3-2012 at 07:41 AM
Heck, I have a thousand rounds of 22 longs on my shelf. Can't find the darn key to my gun lock though.
Cyanide41 - 2-3-2012 at 08:11 AM
I agree that it's a pretty week arsenal. I thought it was funny that they reported the 60 spend casings. I guess the guy had to test the weapons first
before he had to deliver them to his boss.
jbcoug - 2-3-2012 at 01:39 PM
According to thier criteria I must have four or five arsenals myself. I would like to have one of those 300 mm weapons though but I'm not sure I'm up
to the recoil.
John