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.

Friday, April 15, 2011

AZMEX UPDATE 18-5-07

AZMEX UPDATE 18 MAY 2007

Note: 6,000 gun shops?
Selling machine guns and grenades?
thx

BORDER NEWS
Body found in wake of attack by cartels in northern Mexico
By OMAN NEVAREZ
The Associated Press
Tucson, Arizona | Published: 05.18.2007

ARIZPE, Mexico - Police and Mexican army troops found a body in the
search Friday for members of a drug cartel assault force that overran
a town near the Arizona border and killed seven people, including
five police officers.

Wednesday's invasion of Cananea by a heavily armed caravan showed the
brashness and power of Mexico's ruthless organized crime gangs.

After the attack on Cananea, about 50 assailants, pursued by police
and army troops, fled to the hills, ditched their vehicles,
commandeered horses and forced ranch hands to serve as guides,
according to an account from a man abducted by the armed gang.

Sixteen assailants, including the one whose body was found Friday,
were killed in the ensuing gunbattles in the rugged desert mountains
outside Arizpe, 60 miles south of the U.S. border.

Authorities say they have arrested four suspects.

Mexico is struggling to tame drug gangs responsible for a recent
spate of executions, and has sent thousands of police and army troops
to several states.

The nation's top police official said Thursday that drug gangs are
relying on a flow of arms from the United States and using terrorist
strategies learned from al-Qaida to hit back at the government.

Mexican Federal Public Safety Secretary Genaro Garcia Luna complained
of "a large flow of weapons ... many of which came from the United
States," noting authorities have seized assault rifles, .50-caliber
machine guns and hand grenades from the gangs.

"Just in the U.S. border zone, just over the bridge, there are 6,000
gun shops," Garcia Luna said. "That represents an opportunity for
drug traffickers."

Meanwhile, the leader of a state investigative police team was shot
and died Friday in Hermosillo, the Sonora state capital about 200
miles south of Cananea.

Jose Larrinaga, a spokesman for the state attorney general, said
their was no information connecting the killing with the violence in
Cananea and Arizpe.

But the news of another police killing weighed on officers searching
the desert for the Cananea assailants.

"We don't know what's going to happen next, what reprisals can
happen," said an officer, who asked his name not be published out of
safety concerns.

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