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2024-08-24 -Lurid Crime Tales-

Border patrol seizes over 90,000 ammo rounds

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Posted by Skidmark 2024-08-24 05:44|| || Front Page|| [11137 views ] Top
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#1
Did the Democrats ship it ?😇

Posted by NN2N1 2024-08-24 13:18|| 2024-08-24 13:18|| Front Page Top

#2 Thought experiment: Consider this from a military logistics perspective. If you are going to conduct major clandestine ground ops into the US from Mexico, and expect to have significant expenditure of ammunition, would you want your lines of supply (MSR) north of you? Your major supply depot(s) should be in Mexico, safe from interdiction, akin to the Viet Cong Laos sites in the Viet Nam era.

As for why it is being imported into Mexico from the US, the Mexican government has undoubtedly got very good awareness of large ammunition production facilities in Mexico and how/by whom it is being purchased, but little to no visibility of what is being bought in bulk in the US and sent south.

Posted by NoMoreBS 2024-08-24 13:20|| 2024-08-24 13:20|| Front Page Top

#3 ^There's a government in Mexico? I thought they're like Lebanon.

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-08-24 13:26|| 2024-08-24 13:26|| Front Page Top

#4 Eric Holder (D-Contempt) is running a side biz?

Posted by Frank G 2024-08-24 13:45|| 2024-08-24 13:45|| Front Page Top

#5 Define high caliber.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2024-08-24 13:57|| 2024-08-24 13:57|| Front Page Top

#6 Article sez 223 and 7.62x39. Not really large

Posted by BrerRabbit 2024-08-24 15:19|| 2024-08-24 15:19|| Front Page Top

#7 *A passenger in the U.S. illegally was processed.". But not charged.

Posted by Glavinter Peacock7962 2024-08-24 15:32|| 2024-08-24 15:32|| Front Page Top

#8 Got curious so I figured that haul was in excess of 3200 lbs. Wonder what tipped them off?

Posted by BrerRabbit 2024-08-24 15:36|| 2024-08-24 15:36|| Front Page Top

#9 Project Eldest Son

During the Vietnam War, the United States' Studies and Observation Group (SOG) conducted a covert operation called Project Eldest Son, which involved placing exploding cartridges into supplies used by communist combat forces. The project, also known as "Italian Green" or "Pole Bean", involved assembling 11,565 7.62×39mm cartridges for AK-47 rifles, 556 12.7×108mm heavy machine gun cartridges, and 1,968 82mm Type 67 mortar shells. The cartridges were designed to detonate when the weapons were fired, and were an example of unconventional warfare.

I have it on good authority that variations on the 'Eldest Son' theme took place in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Posted by Besoeker 2024-08-24 15:36|| 2024-08-24 15:36|| Front Page Top

#10 #9 Did it work in any of the 3 cases?

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-08-24 15:48|| 2024-08-24 15:48|| Front Page Top

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