From Mexico
Experts suggest Mexican weapons-bust press conference may have been staged event
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there is just one problem with this narrative. According to U.S. law enforcers, specifically the ATF, the captured weapon is not what it appears to be, or at least what it was purported to be by the Mexican police commander.
In fact, according to Bill Newell, special agent in charge of ATF in Arizona and New Mexico, the so-called 800 rpm “anti-aircraft gun” isn’t a machine gun at all, but rather a WWII-era semi-automatic replica of a Browning machine gun made by a U.S. company.
May 12th, 2009 at 12:57 pm
“It was attached to a make-shit gun turret mounted in the bed of a Ford pick-up truck.”
Hmmm. . . interesting use of fertilizer.
But seriously. Another in a long line of little known facts and truths (as opposed to well-known propaganda and lies) that, unfortunately for the lawful gun community, will remain little known.