Mexican detained with anti-aircraft machine gun

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Mexican detained with anti-aircraft machine gun
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id ... _article=1

A woman was arrested guarding an arsenal that included an anti-aircraft machine gun—the first weapon of its kind seized in Mexico, police said Tuesday.
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Mexican drug cartels, battling a fierce crackdown by soldiers and federal police, have increasingly gotten hold of higher-powered weapons, even military-grade arms such as grenades and machine guns. That has left police—particularly state and municipal forces—grossly outgunned, and many officers have quit following attacks.
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Cruz said the confiscated .50-caliber, anti-aircraft machine gun can fire 800 rounds per minute and is capable of penetrating armor from more than 5,000 feet (1,500 meters).

.50 cal anti-aircraft guns? Grenades? Full automatic machine guns?

Is the "gun show loophole" to blame? Maybe if the Feds limited my
shopping choices at my local area Academy or Cabela's there would
be less of these military grade weapons smuggled across the border.

I don't understand why it's our 2nd Amendment that is at fault when
the Mexican drug cartels are coming up with military grade weapons?
Maybe my local gun shows and Academy don't stock the cool firearms
that the rest of you are buying and smuggling across the border?

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I just watched a Gangland show on History Channel last night that was about the drug cartel war that's going on down in Laredo Tx. and Nuevo Laredo Mex. That's is some truly scary stuff! I live 30 miles from the border here in New Mexico and there has been some stuff going on across the border here, but nothing like what's going on down by the Gulf!