AP:Lawmakers: US must enforce assault-gun import ban. What a load of bull
MEXICO CITY (AP) — More than 50 U.S. lawmakers sent a letter to President Barack Obama urging him to enforce a ban on importing assault weapons, saying many such guns are later smuggled south to arm Mexico’s ruthless drug cartels.
“They come to the United States from Europe and other places, and they make their way down to Mexico,” Rep. Eliot Engel, a New York Democrat, told reporters in Mexico City on Wednesday.
The ban was implemented under the administrations of President George H.W. Bush and President Bill Clinton, and the U.S. government can enforce it under provisions of the 1968 Gun Control Act.
That ban was on semi-auto guns just like the ones built in the US there was never any reason to stop imports that were identical to those made in the us. They were not fully auto machine guns.
On Tuesday, federal police fighting gunmen in the northern border city of Reynosa had to call the army for help. After the fighting, which left five gunmen dead and seven police injured, authorities seized several assault rifles and even a 60 mm mortar.
In a recent report, the federal Attorney General’s Office said Mexican authorities have seized the most weapons from the Gulf drug cartel and its gang of hit men, known as the “Zetas.” Members of the cartel have been found with rocket launchers, grenade launchers, and weapons capable of piercing armor.
Who is this author the ban he is talking about has nothing to do with rocket launchers, grenade launchers, and mortars. And as far as armor piercing any standard hunting gun will do that.
From what I understand the Mexicans have fully auto machine guns and none of the guns they have were imported into the US and then exported to Mexico.
The fact that these US lawmakers do not know this shows how inept the gun control movement is in the US
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I hear that illegal immigrants are bringing grenades and rockets with them into the US.