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On the plus side, the State Department admitted this morning (after several subpoenas and a few FOIA requests for their records in the matter) that the majority of “traceable” American-made weapons found in the cartels’ hands south of the border were “military-grade” weapons not sold to American civilians.

Which is a softball way of admitting that the major source of American-made hardware for the cartels is the corrupt Mexican military and police. Who apparently, as fast as our government sends weapons south for them to use against the cartels, turn them over to the cartels for a suitable “consideration”.

Mexico has had a serious industry building its own small arms for over a century. The Mexican Army was the first to issue its troops a semiautomatic rifle, the Mondragon, in 1908. They built the first light machine gun designed and built outside of Europe or the major powers, the Mendoza, in 1934. And more recently, they’ve begun production of their own 5.56mm NATO rifle, the Xuicoatl (Fire Dragon), a variant of the Heckler & Koch G36 design (“varied” just enough to avoid a patent-infringement lawsuit, that is), to be the new standard rifle of their military and police.

“Considering” that the arms we are sending them are “foreign aid” (meaning, supplied at no cost to them on the American taxpayers’ nickel), my question is, why are we still doing it?

Unless, of course, the “complex thinkers” in the White House, etc., think having Mexican drug cartels armed with American-made military-level weaponry is somehow a good thing. For their “agendas”, if nothing else.

I’d honestly rather believe that they are, as Mr. Issa says, simply suffering from felony-grade stupidity.

Of course, as Ayoob’s Law states, “If you do something stupid, and it works, by definition it isn’t stupid”.

And this sort of “stupidity” makes it much easier for The One to push “gun control” up here, doesn’t it?

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