Traffickers have escalated their arms race, acquiring military-grade weapons, including hand grenades, grenade launchers, armor-piercing munitions and antitank rockets with firepower far beyond the assault rifles and pistols that have dominated their arsenals.But...but...but...what about those damned American gun shows...?
Most of these weapons are being smuggled from Central American countries or by sea, eluding U.S. and Mexican monitors who are focused on the smuggling of semiauto- matic and conventional weapons purchased from dealers in the U.S. border states of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California. [More]
Via Len Savage, who asks:
LA Times even gets it?Oh--he reserves that for people like us. Isn't that obvious?
Where is Eric Holder's condemnation?