U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers working at the El Paso port of entry stopped a 2011 Honda Ridgeline driven by a 32-year-old Mexican national as it crossed the Bridge of the Americas (BOTA) international crossing. At the primary screening checkpoint, CBP officers decided to direct the Honda Ridgeline to a secondary screening station, where officers ran the SUV through a low-energy portal scan. It identified possible anomalies hidden in the Mexican vehicle. Last year, the machine was put into service to help identify vehicles trying to smuggle contraband into the country over the BOTA international crossing.
They needed a scanner to see 11,000 rounds of ak ammo? Are we hiring blind border patrol?
ReplyDeleteA box of 1000 5.56 rounds I have in my room measures 16x6x6 inches. It doesn't take up as much room as people think and is probably smaller than packages of drugs smuggled in similar vehicles.
DeleteI buy ".50-cal" ammo cans at Horror Fright. I can fit 960 rounds of 5.56 in one, in the boxes. I could get 1k in one easy if I put them in loose. 7.62x39 is shorter, but fatter. Probably could get 1k in one.
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Someone's stocking up ahead of Trump's border crackdown. - Nemo
ReplyDeleteNew US policy. Anyone caught at the border smuggling arms, ammo or drugs gets lined up to the nearest wall and shot. Make the cost prohibitive.
ReplyDeletethen auction off confiscated arms and ammo to law abiding Tennesseans -
Deletewe'll take'm
Why not just buy it here?
ReplyDeleteMy thought as well.
DeleteMaybe he was supposed to be found so that they would be looking at him while someone else snuck a big cache of drugs through...
They were probably smuggled into Mexico by holder and obummer...
DeleteSounds to me the cartels and gangs have their militia's set up. Now stock piling to their probably already huge caches of arms. I believe there is a small army of these bastards in our country all thanks to Biden.
ReplyDeleteMy first thought, too.
DeleteProbably not a SMALL army of anti American guerillas and / or 3rd world bandits.
DeleteJohn in Indy
gee i wonder who has the ak47's the ammo was destined for?
ReplyDeleteDefinitely not all the military age single Chinese men that Xiden has let in the county. Maybe those right wing parent group or pro-life protesters, but not the Chinese military expedition force, nope.
DeleteMucho clever hombres them cartel folks. Give up the minnows to save the sharks. Ammo for weapons of war 7.62 x 39 now to test the security and deflect them from catching the RPGs disguised as in-the-ground lawn sprinkler heads.
ReplyDeletea good authority says the cartels are smuggling it in for the chinese for big bucks, along with heavier weapons. the cartels are smuggling the same ammo south to mexico in larger quantity for the ongoing cartel war, fighting each other and local militias that have sprung up. stay alert, the world needs more lerts.
ReplyDeleteI’d wonder where it was made. AK rounds are cheap in this country. Venezuela has an AK factory, courtesy of the Chinese and Russians. Good probability they’re cranking ammo for them as well.
ReplyDeleteYou can’t tell me that the NSA or similar doesn’t know exactly where, what, and how the cartels are basing, storing, and moving this stuff. Long time past due for us to go back into Mexico and clean house.
Venezuela next.
Coelacanth
Or, less politically, it fell off a the back of a truuck in SA or the Ukraine, and the guy "found it" knew a guy who knew a guy who could sell it here.
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