Ammunition shortage due to Mexican drug traffickers

[Walkalong]

They're simply using the Mexico situation as an excuse.

Yep, get ready.

 

[Davandron]

Troll Thread !

I'm skeptical of the OP's topic. It doesn't show up here:

http://www.npr.org/search.php?text=ammunition

+1 to this post.

OP sounds like a troll... oh crap, I just feed it!

 

[KarenTOC]

solution to mexico-to-us drug smuggling problem: legalize drugs here
solution to us-to-mexico arms smuggling problem: legalize guns there
solution to bouts-of-wishful-thinking: still working on it

 

[MDW GUNS]

I think too that they get the public ready to be pro anti gun laws!

 

[CoRoMo]

So Tim listens to NPR... my jaw did not drop open in surprise.

 

[ArmedBear]

Yeah, that's why you can't find enough .204 Ruger or AA skeet loads. Mexican drug lords.

 

[Travis Bickle]

NPR may lean to the left but they are FAR less biased than any of the squawking right-wing-nuts on the radio these days...

The squawking right-wing-nuts on radio at least admit that they're right-wing. NPR would have us believe that they're impartial, when they're no such thing.

My problem with liberal media bias isn't so much the bias itself, it's the fact that it bills itself as impartiality.

 

[feedthehogs]

NPR may lean to the left

Thats like saying a bite from a black momba may get you dead.

If they leaned anymore to the left, they'd be laying down.

 

[KBintheSLC]

I didn't hear that. The knob on my radio doesn't turn that far to the left.

LOL! You are killin' me over here.

On the subject... this just proves that gun control does not work. It can take years to put a piece of legislation into place. And it can be bypassed by a pile of uneducated dope dealers in a matter of days.

I think the people of Mexico need to take their country back. If the decent people of the nation armed up and started waging organized attacks on the cartel members and the crooked government agents, they might actually have a livable country someday.

If they just want to sit back and wait for American politicians and weak local LE agencies to do all of their work... good luck.

solution to mexico-to-us drug smuggling problem: legalize drugs here
solution to us-to-mexico arms smuggling problem: legalize guns there

That would be far too simple and cost effective... governments dont work that way.

 

[Old Fuff]

If the decent people of the nation armed up and started waging organized attacks on the cartel members and the crooked government agents, they might actually have a livable country someday.

I can assure you that the authorities, both in Washington DC and here along the border, are doing everything possible to make sure that what you suggested doesn't happen. Both the U.S. and Mexican governments prefer that the people be unarmed - and that might be true for those living on both sides of the International Line.

 

[Double Naught Spy]

I went to the NPR site and searched on "ammunition shortage" to see what would come up. Interesting...

Morning Edition, September 4, 2007 · Over the past month, newspapers across the country have published stories suggesting that police departments could soon be hit by a nationwide ammunition shortage. Ammunition prices have increased along with copper and other commodities. And that, analysts say, has prompted some gun owners to stockpile ammunition.

All Things Considered, February 5, 2004 · U.S. military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, along with requirements that troops receive more live-fire training, have created the highest demand for small-caliber ammunition since the Vietnam era. Capacity is severely strained at Lake City, the U.S. Army's sole ammunition plant. Hear NPR's Greg Allen.

Note that the first quote is the only one with the phrase "nationwide ammunition shortage" as noted in the OP. Now not the date and what it is attributed to...not Mexican drug trafficking. Something is definitely not right with the OP.

 

[2RCO]

I don't know about a guy with 540 posts being a troll. But with the current climate they will do whatever it takes to win the hearts and minds of America in order to defeat the 2A.

We need to do more positive things to encourage gun ownership.

 

[RonE]

If it is about arms and ammunition and it originates on NPR, I guess I just gotta call: BS!

 

[Bear2000]

I love how half the posts here condemn the NPR story (which we can't even verify exists) as sheer conjecture without 1) having heard it and 2) not knowing the source of the information. Hilarious! Where I come from, prejudging something one knows nothing about is called being ignorant.

I don't know whether Mexican drug lords are responsible for the ammunition shortage. Seems to be unlikely, but I just don't know. And most people here don't know either.

But who cares, right. If it was on NPR (which is far less sophisticated than FOX or the comments of posters on gun boards, to be sure!), it's just got to be BS! Duh!

 

[rbernie]

I love how half the posts here condemn the NPR story (which we can't even verify exists) as sheer conjecture without 1) having heard it and 2) not knowing the source of the information.

Nobody is bagging on NPR's reporting of the story - we're taking this opportunity to bag on NPR (not known as a bastion of pro-RKBA reporting) while we look for corroboration of the OPs post.

There's a difference.

 

[RoboDuck]

I call for an air strike.

 

[The Lone Haranguer]

It is not farfetched that in some cases the Mexican druggies might be using proxies to purchase ammo for them on this side of the border. To say that this is the primary reason for the ammo shortage, is.

 

[rbernie]

Since the OP has taken to removing his inputs and replacing them with silly images, I will take the opportunity to close this thread down.