Authorities arrested store owner George Iknadosian, 46, and two brothers, Hugo Miguel Gamez, 26, of Mesa, and Cesar Boroguez-Gamez, 28, of Phoenix, who are suspected of trafficking the weapons. All were booked into a Maricopa County jail.

Is this what Buzz is talking about? Notice the names.

We have more gang members already IN the US than troops in our military. Most estimates are over 1,000,000 active gang members outside prison walls. And the majority of them are not Mexican.

Dozens of drug dealers were sentenced to death in a series of drug-related criminal cases across China as the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking draws near.

In southwestern Yunnan province, Tan Minglin and three other people convicted of smuggling or selling five tons of drugs, including heroin and ephedrine, were executed after having all their belongings confiscated on Friday.

Thats how you deal with drug dealers. Pop…Pop…Pop

What Merge? The German in me says, Mexico – Belgium, it’s all the same.

Let’s invade.

I’ll lead the charge.

OLE

Mexico is a thing all to its self and no simple merge would solve anything . it makes me wonder what is the answer , it most certainly would involve some common sense approaches, Gang land would not do it justice in the description, it goes much farther then that , it appears to be a cartel unto itself and they are not leaving quietly , to much money and to much power at stake . An all out war is the only way you could even begin to control any portion of Mexico. I have met and know Mexican people and they are nice people but they should have to stand in line like every one else . I understand that we actually trained the people that are now running the drug show in Mexico. What a joke, we trained them to run the biggest drug cartel in the world .

I know total potheads better behaved and more sensible than Dino for instance.

Who’s to say dino hasn’t been mixing drugs with his anti-depressants?

I don’t want invasion. I say it should be laid out for Mexico and let them decide for themselves.

You’re going to have to break that to Gene yourself. He already bought his Zachary Taylor style uniform.

Annexing Mexico under Bungler Obama would be a disaster. Mexican oil, when it became American oil, would boost our economy tremendously, but Bungler Obama wouldn’t develop it. Instead of eager workers who would work hard in our businesses, now that they are Americans, Bungler Obama would make them all welfare queens, supported by “the rich”, in typical Marxist fashion.

Federal agents swooped down on a north Phoenix gun store Tuesday in the biggest weapons bust in years, highlighting Arizona’s major role as an arms conduit to violent drug cartels in Mexico.

Authorities said the store was a source for at least 650 high-powered weapons, including 250 AK-47 automatic weapons, smuggled to drug cartels for use in the escalating Mexican drug war. That war left 2,500 dead last year, and Arizona weapons were used to assassinate police and battle army squads near the border, authorities said.

The raid on X-Caliber Guns on North Cave Creek Road capped an 11-month investigation by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the Phoenix Police Department and the Arizona Attorney General’s Office. Agents pored over evidence in the store, seized 1,300 weapons and closed down the business.

Authorities arrested store owner George Iknadosian, 46, and two brothers, Hugo Miguel Gamez, 26, of Mesa, and Cesar Boroguez-Gamez, 28, of Phoenix, who are suspected of trafficking the weapons. All were booked into a Maricopa County jail.

The bust was noteworthy because of the large number of weapons seized and because licensed gun dealers are rarely the target of investigations. It was the first shutdown of an Arizona gun store in at least five years

Wrong Buzz. These weapons are being brought into Mexico from other places in Latin America as well as the Middle East and former Soviet states.

No, I’m right fuck-stick, there are Arizona gun dealers in federal custody today for selling them the guns. Federal agents operated a sting where they bought the guns, using the smugglers as there contact. The gun store operators even gave them advice on how to get the guns over the border. Do some research,idgit.

2h, I also found the reference elsewhere. From this site

It was the first shutdown of an Arizona gun store in at least five years, Attorney General Terry Goddard said.

Yep there is a real epidemic of gun stores selling to drug gangs. /sarc

So the latest reason why we American’s must give up our right to protect ourselves

Yea, its hard to protect yourself if you cant but 30 guns a month.

We have more gang members already IN the US than troops in our military. Most estimates are over 1,000,000 active gang members outside prison walls. And the majority of them are not Mexican.

What does this have to do with illegal Russian kalashnikov’s in Mexico?
Nice switch indeed Hannitized…..er, Fuzz.

No liberal can debate based on facts, just emotions or “feelings”. Pitiful excuse for a human being. The bad guys can get whatever they want while the useful idiots try to enforce upon the law abiding citizens what they “perceive” is their problem. What idiots. Blind to The Truth.

Nice switch, that was smooth.

ignore,,deflect

The Left wants to disarm Americans and arm the enemies of America.

This goes way back. Remember this one?

Operation Dragon Fire

“Assault Weapons” for U.S.

But of all the decisions, waivers and export liberalizations executed on behalf of the Chinese by the Clinton White House, none rivals what the administration did for Wang Jun, the princeling chairman of China’s state owned arms conglomerate, Poly Technologies. For years, China had been doing a land office business exporting to the U.S. semi-automatic rifles and ammo made by Poly and another arms manufacturer, Norinco. Reportedly, the gun trade was worth hundreds of millions of dollars annually to the PRC. But suddenly in 1994, there was a problem: the Clinton Assault Weapons Ban. Overnight, China’s weapons cash cow evaporated.

Not to worry. According to a Scripps Howard report by Michael Hedges, which ran on the front page of the March 14, 1997 edition of the Arkansas Democrat Gazette, the Clinton administration granted Wang Jun’s Poly Technologies importation permits to flood America with over 100,000 semi-automatic weapons and millions of rounds of ammunition — despite the president’s own cherished gun ban. That was on Feb. 2, 1996 — just days before Clinton issued the first satellite waivers for Loral Corp.

It gets worse. On Feb. 6, just four days after the assault weapon waivers were issued, Wang Jun was ushered into the White House for a personal meeting with Bill Clinton. Wang’s escort was Yah Lin “Charlie” Trie, who had laundered over $600,000 from Chinese sources for the Clinton Defense Fund. Combined with his campaign donations to the DNC, Trie’s total contributions to Clinton coffers topped the million dollar mark in 1996. For that kind of money, it’s a good bet Charlie Trie could bring anybody he wanted to the White House.

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So why, instead of stopping with the March 18th gun seizure, didn’t they keep going? Stoltz and King had wanted to – but inexplicably, somehow word had leaked about Dragon Fire.

First their office got a call from a Los Angeles Times reporter, who shocked them with his detailed knowledge of their supposedly still secret sting. This reporter’s silence was purchased with the promise of an even bigger exclusive after the investigation had culminated in indictments of Chinese kingpins. Shortly thereafter, The New York Times called and had to be promised a similar deal to keep the investigation secret. But it was too late. After the second inquiry Stoltz and King realized that their own undercover agents were now in jeopardy. They had to act fast before the entire operation came unraveled. That’s why Dragon Fire’s ultimate prize turned out to be Chinese AK-47′s rather than the Chinese operatives close to arms merchant, Wang Jun.

and

…what national interest, pray tell, was served by sabotaging an investigation into Chinese gun smuggling? And just which Americans would have benefited when the White House tossed it’s own gun control policy over the side to welcome in 100,000 outlawed Chinese guns?

Though the press has virtually ignored this aspect of the Clinton “China First” policy, House Government Reform and Oversight Chairman Dan Burton has not. Reached Friday on Sean Hannity’s New York talk radio show, Burton told me:

“We continue to investigate the Wang Jun connection. Our concentration has been on the illegal campaign contributions and Wang Jun is one of the people that we’ve been looking into. Obviously if there was a quid pro quo where the president signed off on those guns coming into the country in exchange for campaign contributions, that’s something that he should be held accountable for and we are looking into that.”

Quid quo pro or not, this president needs to explain why his administration waived its own gun law for a Chinese princeling arms merchant whose lieutenants were intent on smuggling even more to firepower to American street gangs.

Talk about lies, here is one from your source,”including 250 AK-47 automatic weapons”. No automatics arew sold over the counter in America. And in another paragraph, they mention grenade launchers, exactly which gun store did they buy those.

And why did you not link the article? Eh, not confident of the source? It took me 2 minutes to find which one you used, and that with just one name.

These are not the so-called “assault weapons” you can buy at the local gun shop in the U.S., but full select-fire military-issue rifles

They were the guns bought in Arizona, traced back by there serial numbers.

just Google- Arizona gun shop Mexico- you will get like 200,000 hits pick one.

We, our government, created the drug war with our unilateral zero tolerance drug prohibitions. Remove the prohibitions and the root cause (profit) motive for drug lords vanishes.

The first sentence is absolutely true, the second sentence is inevitable.

How many? Give us the rundown, buzzed.

I think merging with Mexico would make us more like Mexico than the other way around.

Oh yeah, looks like something out of HALO

Again and again the blog post is a complete fabrication, an utter lie, and when proved to be a lie you simply ignore or the facts.

Opps I meant thing not think.

Merging with Mexico would let us drop the boom on the drug traffickers thus taking the pressure off their law enforcement as here, if you murder our cops, we rain hell on your head. We’d immediately severely disrupt the supply chain to the street dealers here from Mexican sources as well as those passing through. We could throw resources behind the law enforcement there unlike anything they have now, which would be a major morale boost for the street level Mexican cops to have real back-up.

We’d be able to get behind their infrastructure repair and upgrade efforts and cut a huge amount of red tape that currently strangles cooperation. They have gigantic amounts of very talented professionals in many of their cities but there’s only so much the central government can get done.

We’d end illegal immigration by making every Mexican a citizen and allow our own current citizens the ability to move there as easy as moving from El Paso to Dallas.

We’d gain a people who know what hard work, self-sacrifice, and family pride are, and our own people badly need to relearn those things.

All the way around to my thinking the positives are long term and greatly outweigh the negatives.

Alot of the Military Weapons come from other countries do MFG arms too! True Alot of the Magor Counties in Aisa,Eurpean Nations too! true! Do sell guns to the Criminals Druge Carriers do buy Illeagal,Military Guns are Machines too! true! South American Nations too! True!!! Not just the U.S. is India,Chinia,U.S.S.R. too! South Afferica Nations too! True!!! There Large List of Arms Exporters& Importers Nations to on the List too! There 5 Internationl Arms Big Wigs Gun Dealers in the world too! They are Biggest Ones Arms Dealers Of Eurpean Busineses Men too! There is 5 Of them in the all the Nations of the hold Earth to true!! Solution is: They Should Checked out by International Police Organistions of Nations Law enorder too! Check Interpole World Police Police Deartments Headquarters of the World Nations of the U.N. Security Councel in New York City, New York State , in the U.S.A. too!! Our Laweforcement is part of Interpal World Police Departments of Lawenorder too! Agreed!! Thankyou, Mr. David P.Curcione is N.R.A. / I./L./A. to Federal & State Laws & Internations Laws of other Nations of the Justice Depts other Nations of the World too! True!!!