Mexican Cartels Overwhelm Police With U.S. Army Ammunition

What hath the 55-year-old War on Drugs wrought? Hell on Earth in our Beloved Mexico.

Mexican Cartels Overwhelm Police With Ammunition Made for the U.S. Military

Note: Link to article from The New York Times is good from 30 days of this post.

I wrote about this over 20 years ago, a week or two after the ban on military-style assault weapons was stupidly allowed to expire during the Bush, Jr. administration. Almost immediately after the ban expired, cops here started getting attacked by snipers with .50 cal. Barretts. That's one of the reasons police abandoned all their módulos in the colonias and on the highway and built a tall wall around their police station across from the Unidad Deportiva. It's when the violence in Mexico started growing quickly out of control. Though some poorly educated people snicker and mention "Fast & Furious", that little leftover from the Bush administration wasn't even a drop in the bucket compared to the quarter million firearms bought "legally" in the USA and smuggled into Mexico each year seemingly effortlessly. Presidenta Sheinbaum continues calling on U.S. authorities to do their part to stop the flow of firearms into Mexico, but the USA appears more corrupt now than Mexico ever was on its worst day.