WikiLeaks memos confirm: "Heavy firepower now in the hands of Mexican criminal organizations isn’t linked to mom-and-pop gun stores."



Yeah, I'm sure they got the M249 machine gun at a Phoenix gun show. Yup.

A deep genuflection and tip of the boonie hat to Irregular John P. for this link:

Pentagon Fingered as a Source of Narco-Firepower in Mexico.

No wonder ATF bosses felt like they had to boost their numbers to justify the existence of Project Gunrunner.

Another series of leaked State Department cables made public this week by WikiLeaks lend credence to investigative reports on gun trafficking and the drug war published by Narco News as far back as 2009.

The big battles in the drug war in Mexico are “not being fought with Saturday night specials, hobby rifles and hunting shotguns,â€