Hand Grenades: Drug Cartel Weapon Of Choice

Hand grenades confiscated from Mexican drug cartels U.S. law enforcement increasingly is concerned over the use of hand grenades by Mexican drug cartels north of the border as reported by Jacques Billeaud for Associated Press:

It was a scenario U.S. law enforcement had long feared: A fragmentation grenade from Mexico's bloody drug war tossed into a public place. Only the grenade thrower's bumbling prevented bloodshed in a south Texas bar — he neglected to pull a second safety clasp. But the act was proof that one of the deadliest weapons in Mexico's drug battle is a real threat to the U.S., and investigators are stepping up efforts to make sure it doesn't happen again. While Mexican drug violence has been spilling across the border in the form of kidnappings and killings, grenades are a particular worry because they can kill large numbers of people indiscriminately, and they are a weapon of choice among Mexican cartel members.

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