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bajabound2005
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Canadian tourist shot dead in Mexico (Cabo)
Canadian tourist shot dead in Mexico
7 hours ago
CABO SAN LUCAS, Mexico (AP) — A Canadian tourist was shot and killed late Thursday inside his hotel room in the Mexican resort city of Cabo San Lucas,
police said.
State police commander Enrique Wuilar says a lone gunman shot Canadian Bouabal Bounthavorn in his hotel room.
Wuilar says the 29-year-old man was shot three times in the head. He was staying with his girlfriend at the Hotel Riu in Cabo San Lucas.
Bounthavorn's girlfriend, 24-year-old Masha Heikali, was shot in one foot.
Wuilar says no one has been arrested in the killing and investigators have no leads.
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what a tragedy!
another unsolved crime amidst dozens/hundreds of people in the immediate vicinity.....
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DENNIS
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The authorities will turn this case over to the Department Of Tourism. They have a way of interpreting these events as isolated events and no threat
to foreigners.
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It wouldn't surprise me with the victim's names 'Bouabal' and 'Masha' sounding 'Arabic' or foreign, they will call it a terrorist or drug deal gone
bad... I am sure there will be a lot more to find out???
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| Quote: | Wuilar says the 29-year-old man was shot three times in the head.
Bounthavorn's girlfriend, 24-year-old Masha Heikali, was shot in one foot. |
Something is rotten in Denmark, as they say.
No 'bad-guy' kills someone with 3 shots to the head, and then simply wounds the witness with a non lethal shot to the foot 
They better run cordite tests (if they have those things in Mexico) on Heikali before she makes a run for the border.
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What (AP) fails to mention is that at 11pm there was a knock on the door of these peoples hotel room and Boun Bovaban went to open the door, (it seems
like these guys knew each other) an argument started and it turned into a fight and in the fight the assasin pulled out a gun and shot Bovaban. With
Bovaban (19 years old) fallen dead the assasin fled the scene and that is when Mash Heikali chased the guy who then shot her once in the left ancle.
Authorities are investigating and one line of the investigation is that the assasin could also be a tourist.
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Bob H
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Ferna.... you always find out the details that no one else has. Connections... Love it.
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Aren't guns illegal in Mexico? Even for Canucks?
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fdt
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No, guns have always, at least during my lifetime been legal in México.
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The Gull
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OK
So that huge sign on the US side just before the TJ crossing means something different than Guns are Illegal in Mexico.
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DENNIS
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| Quote: | Originally posted by The Gull
So that huge sign on the US side just before the TJ crossing means something different than Guns are Illegal in Mexico. |
Illegal guns are illegal in Mexico. With proper permits, even you Gull can have a gun.
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Dennis is correct. You can legally possess a firearm in Mexico with the proper permits and licenses......and some cash.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by DENNIS
Illegal guns are illegal in Mexico. With proper permits, even you Gull can have a gun. |
A SEATURKEY with a
gun! Don't give him any ideas.
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DENNIS
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| Quote: | Originally posted by bancoduo
A SEATURKEY with a gun! Don't give him any ideas. |
Sorry. I had a weak moment.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by The Gull
So that huge sign on the US side just before the TJ crossing means something different than Guns are Illegal in Mexico. |
Here is a link to get you started in obtaining a permit. Happy hunting
http://www.sedena.gob.mx/index.php?id=122
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oldlady
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what kind of permits and licenses? Wish we had known this before we sold the one we had when we moved...dumb broad that I am.
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Thank you for sharing
Yes, I do have some targets and need to practice.
A friend of mine has a range on his ranch, waaaay outside one of the major cities in Baja. We have been discussing the permit process.
My point was lost on the dullards of the board who like to stalk. It is illegal for a foreigner to bring a gun into Mexico without the proper license
and permit issued through the authority of the Mexican government, even for hunting.
I doubt what was done in CSL was with a licensed/permitted gun.
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fdt
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Here's a couple more http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_politics_in_Mexico
http://www.davekopel.com/Espanol/Mexican-Gun-Laws.htm
[Edited on 5-18-2008 by fdt]
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For what its worth the only person I've known that had a gun legally in Mexico had someone break in the house, guess what they stole the gun so there
will be more with gun robberies.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by comitan
For what its worth the only person I've known that had a gun legally in Mexico had someone break in the house, guess what they stole the gun so there
will be more with gun robberies. |
Well lets just say that there are a few who own a gun that are not real smart.
If you are going to own one, you better have a safe or really good stash spot or a really good stash spot for the safe so that doesn't happen.
Otherwise you may come home and get shot by your own gun. 
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