The situation in Mexico has serious consequences for our Rights, and even our lives here in AZ and all along the Mexican border. We cannot emphasize enough how much it is in our interest to have a free, safe and prosperous Mexico as our neighbor. Many of us have family, friends there and they are our neighbor.

We strongly support the Human Rights of the Mexican people to be able to defend themselves. That means the Mexican people should once again have the rights and resources to possess, bear and use modern and effective firearms. As over 70 years of corrupt federal government and it's attending gun control have shown, the bumper sticker is so true. "If guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns". Mexico is a textbook example of the failures of gun control. While some very limited firearms are permitted on paper, and in practice, the real effect has been to disarm the good people of Mexico.
That was done by the very corrupt political party that ran a country rich in natural resources and people, into the ground to prevent a revolution, not to "control crime" as was the pretense.

As the archived reports will show, the defenseless people of Mexico have suffered way too much. They deserve much better. We need to help.

Given the gravity of the ongoing drug war in Mexico our neighbor to the south, ASR&PA has been working to monitor the border situation and it's many effects on our state and our members:

Including drug and human trafficking, with related issues of murders, kidnappings, home invasions, extortion, destruction of wildlife habitat, illegal immigration, white slavery, money laundering, expenses of incarceration and medical treatments, the list goes on and on. Also de facto cession of areas of the state to the DTO's; fugitives, cash, firearms and ammunition running south. Most of these issues could be significantly reduced by simply securing the border.

To get it out of the way, ASR&PA does support legal immigration, trade, and travel between our countries. Especially so that we and our Mexican neighbors can once again freely and safely travel to our neighboring countries for competition, training, hunting and just enjoy good company.

Sunday, May 15, 2011

AZMEX SON CHIEF HIT 3-11-08

Note: spent last couple days at Tucson gun show, didn't see any
launchers or grenades for them.
thx

Top Sonoran police official gunned down
Nov. 3, 2008 03:36 PM
Associated Press
TUCSON - Authorities say Mexico's Sonoran state police chief has been
killed in a violent attack in a central Nogales, Mexico, hotel.

Santa Cruz County Sheriff Tony Estrada says he's been told that
several gunmen opened fire on Juan Manuel Pavon Felix and other
police Sunday night about two miles south of the international border
where Mexican police had held a meeting.

The report said the gunmen were armed with automatic rifles, hand-
held and rocket-propelled grenades. Two other officers also died in
the attack.

Estrada says his department and the U.S. Border Patrol activated or
put SWAT teams on alert and took other steps after initial reports
that the gunmen, who fled in four SUVs, might try to cross from
Mexico. He says none did.

Sonora police commander killed in Nogales ambush
By Brady McCombs
ARIZONA DAILY STAR
Tucson, Arizona | Published: 11.03.2008
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Gunmen ambushed the director of Sonora's state police Sunday night
killing him with a barrage of gunfire as well as grenades as he and
other law enforcement officials entered their hotel in central Nogales.
Juan Manuel Pavón Félix died a short time later in a local hospital,
a news release from the Sonora Attorney General's Office.
Pavón was in Tucson this past week for an event hosted by the U.S.
Marshals to honor Mexican law enforcement who had helped arrest U.S.
fugitives in Mexico.
The assassination occurred at 8:30 p.m. Sunday at the Marqués de Cima
hotel, located about two and a half miles south of the border off of
Avenida Alvaro Obregon, which goes north-south from the downtown
Dennis DeConcini port of entry and south out of the city.
Pavón was walking into the hotel along with other law enforcement
when gunmen in the upper part of the building opened fire and
launched grenades, the release said. Pavón was still alive when he
was taken to a local hospital but died a few minutes later.
Other agents were wounded in the attack and taken to the hospital for
treatment.
State police have been in Nogales for the past two months working in
a special operation along with city and federal police to combat drug
cartels-fueled violence, which has created unprecedented violence in
the border city.
There have been some 76 homicides registered in Nogales through
September, surpassing the 2007 total of 52 and more than doubling the
2006 total of 35. Most of killing has been attributed to drug cartel-
fueled violence.
On Oct. 23, state police shot and killed 10 gunmen during a rolling
gunbattle that went past supermarkets and malls and down side streets
before ending in an industrial park.
Pavón and other law enforcement from out of town were staying in the
hotel. Most of them were inside their rooms when the attack occurred,
the attorney general press release said.
U.S. officials did not close the Dennis Deconcini port of entry in
downtown Nogales but Mexican officials stopped allowing traffic from
the U.S. into Mexico for about two hours, said Brian Levin, Customs
and Border Protection spokesman. Traffic into the U.S. never stopped,
but it was delayed for a while, Levin said.
Pávon, who was married with two children, took over as chief of the
state police on March 6, 2007, according to El Imparcial newspaper in
Sonora.
Contact reporter Brady McCombs at 573-4213 or bmccombs@azstarnet.com.

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