The amount of ammunition used by the Mexican Drug cartels, in their murdering, drug dealing operations in MINISCULE compared to the amount of ammo used on gun ranges, and in hunting in the US. The amount of rounds fired in anger in Mexico is a tiny, tiny fraction of the amount of rounds fired every day on ranges in Los Angeles.
In mexico, you cannot practice shooting your illegal ak 47. You can’t bring attention to yourself. Guns are illegal in Mexico. On the occasion that Mexican drug smuggler does fire his weapon, there’s better than 50/50 chance he’ll never fire again. If you added up the total number of drug smugglers in Mexico & the number of rounds they fire over their short careers (before they get killed, or go to jail) it’s just a handful. They need ammo, but they don’t use much. If there was a way to figure out how much ammo has been used by the mexican drug smugglers, it’s so small. It’s tiny. They fire their weapons rarely, and once they do, they’ve got the whole world cracking down on them.
They only need a few rounds. Not a continual supply of massive numbers of bullets. They are not fighting in the trenches. The do a few drive bys, and then if they don’t get taken out in the cross fire, they hide, or throw away their guns, and hide.
The original story is a mis-representation of the facts completely.
