Vanguard | October 21, 2011 | 11 comments

Inside a Mexican cartel gun vault: 'Vanguard' Dispatches from the Field

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In this dispatch from the field, "Vanguard" correspondent Christof Putzel visits a gun vault in Chihuahua City, Mexico and marvels at the range of seized Mexican drug cartels weaponry.

Watch the premiere of Vanguard's "Arming the Mexican Cartels" on Monday, October 31, at 9/8c.

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11 comments // Inside a Mexican cartel gun vault: 'Vanguard' Dispatches from the Field // Video

  • theknopfknows
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      theknopfknows  
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    • GUNS ARE FOR THE HOME OR WILDERNESS HUNTING: PROTECT YOUR HOME AND LOVED ONES:MY HOME IN MEXICO IS BOOBY TRAPPED MIGHT GET IN WILL NOT GET OUT! OLD VIETNAM TRICKS THAT WORK!

    • 6 months ago
  • bailey78
  • Tellthewholetruth
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      Tellthewholetruth  

    • Why not let someone from and outside group take a look at all of thoese weapons that supposedly come from the USA?
      I am sure a number of them are from the US, however the BATF does require manufacturers, importers,distributors, and dealers to maintain records showing they leagally disposed of firearms so they can all be traced by their serial numbers back to the person who bought them. If they are guilty of a crime, charge them!
      Weapons like the two Barrett .50 BMG Rifles (called "machine guns" by your narrator) are so few in number mthat they can be easily followed.
      Also since fully automatic weapons (as well as other NFA weapons) aren't generally available through gunshops without going through an intensive process that includes that the purchasers be signed off by the head of their local law enforcement agency, and under go a intensive background check by the BATF, where are all of these automatic weapons coming from? That is other than from "Sting" operations like "Fast and Furious" run by the BATF...
      When it comes to the AK-47 variants why not look into the "Chinese Free Trade Zone" at Long Beach California? There have been reports of finding truck loads of automatic weapons, rocket launchers, and other heavy weapons not legal in the US that have been broken down on highways leading to Mexico but because they carried papers showing that the cargo wasn't destined for the US nothing could (or would) be done to stop their transportation.
      Findout who the those were destined for and and chances are you'll findout where the majority of the illegal firearms used by Mexican narcoterrorists are coming from.

    • 7 months ago
  • AlejandroSins
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      AlejandroSins  

    • Gary Webb exposed CIA's "Dark Alliance" in which drug trafficking scheme was operated in Latin countries. If the CIA was behind that controversy why can't they be behind the Mexican drug cartel. In fact, attorney general Eric Holder continued to lie about knowing "Operation fast and furious" which literally supplied weapons into Mexico's drug cartel.

    • 7 months ago
  • alexsmith01
  • theknopfknows
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      theknopfknows  

    • WHAT ELSE DOES AMERICA MANUFACTURE GUNS ARMS CHEMICALS NUKES+DRONES WEAPONS OF MASS DES-TRACK-TION DEATH SALES THAT IS IT! DEATH TO ALL =HOMELAND SECURITY, FEMA CAMPS FUSION CENTERS PRIVATE PRISONS=AMERICAN DREAM!

    • 7 months ago
  • bailey78
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      bailey78  
    • theknopfknows:

      You sound a little bit Pissed off. I understand you live down that way. What part of mexico are you in?? I myself used to go to Mexico a few times a year. Now i would not go for a big bag of Gold much less to see a doctor.

    • 6 months ago
  • theknopfknows
  • bailey78
  • theknopfknows
  • bailey78
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      bailey78  
    • theknopfknows:

      Wish I could find someone like you around here. I have a hard time with doctors. They all talk to me like I'm ignorant. I truely hate that. Well that and they all want to shove pills down my throat.

    • 6 months ago

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