Sounds like Operation Fast and Furious.
US-based Mexican Mafia gang members reveal how they're able to legally buy firearms in America and smuggle up to ONE HUNDRED across the border to Mexico every few days
- Members of the Mexican Mafia in Los Angeles revealed how easy it is to smuggle assault rifles and guns to Mexico
- The gang claimed they traffic at least 100 weapons every three to four days
- The weapons can be sold at three times the legal purchase price before they land in the hands of gangs and cartels in Mexico
Gang members based in the United States are exposing
Mexico's lax security on the
California border by showing how they traffic firearms to the country - which are then sold to some of the world's most powerful drug cartels.
Members of the Mexican Mafia in
Los Angeles claim they can smuggle as many as 100 rifles and guns every three to four days without being detected at the border crossing before they are handed over to gun dealers, according to a report by Mexican news outlet NMas.
The gun runners, natives of the western state of Michoacán, alleged that they depend on American citizens who do not have criminal records to enter stores and legally buy firearms such as AR-15 and M-16 assault rifles and guns such as Berretas, Glocks and Sig Sauers.
The store owners, the Mexican Mafia member claimed, can easily be silenced when making purchases in exchange for drugs.
'They are corrupt. You give them money. They sell them, don't think they are innocent,' he said. 'They also like to get crazy. If they want pills, whatever it to get crazy, we'll we will also respond.'
The violent street gang also alleges to have a connection with U.S. law enforcement contacts, who can sell them weapons that have been reported stolen or confiscated from criminals.
'Those guys are not straight, man. We have a list of ATF (agents) that help us,' the gang member boasted.
The weapons are smuggled in vehicles with U.S. license plates that are driven by U.S. citizens.
On one occasion, a woman drove to Tijuana with her nine-month-old baby girl and video footage recorded by the network showed her going undetected before she transferred five assault rifles and four guns to a dealer.
'As long as they (Mexican customs agents) look at a family with 'children', do you think they are going to stop them?' the gang member said.
Mexican Mafia members have detailed who easy it is for them to smuggled up to 100 weapons every three to four days from Los Angeles to Mexico, where they fall into the hands of gangs and cartels.
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