{"id":444,"date":"2008-12-15T15:56:24","date_gmt":"2008-12-15T20:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johntedesco.net\/blog\/?p=444"},"modified":"2017-08-19T16:40:11","modified_gmt":"2017-08-19T21:40:11","slug":"exposing-the-gun-buyers-for-mexican-drug-cartels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johntedesco.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/15\/exposing-the-gun-buyers-for-mexican-drug-cartels\/","title":{"rendered":"Exposing the gun buyers for Mexican drug cartels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mysanantonio.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johntedesco.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/gunnrunning31.jpg\" alt=\"gunnrunning3\" title=\"gunnrunning3\" width=\"250\" height=\"439\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-443\" srcset=\"https:\/\/johntedesco.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/gunnrunning31.jpg 250w, https:\/\/johntedesco.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/gunnrunning31-170x300.jpg 170w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>Day 2 of &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mysanantonio.com\/\">Texas&#8217; Deadliest Export<\/a>&#8221; is out. The series shows how easy it is for Mexican drug cartels to buy guns in Texas. Sunday&#8217;s story by Reporter Guillermo Contreras focuses on the straw buyers &#8212; the people with clean criminal histories who buy guns that wind up being used in cop killings and gun battles in Mexico:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cAnyone who can legally buy a gun can get caught up in the scheme,\u201d said Mark Siebert, resident agent in charge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in San Antonio. \u201cIt\u2019s college students, girls, guys, grandmothers. It\u2019s anybody.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In Houston, ATF agents uncovered one network of more than 30 straw buyers who spent more than $400,000 on guns, said J. Dewey Webb, agent in charge of the office there, which oversees San Antonio and much of south Texas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of straw purchasers say, \u2018Hey I\u2019m not hurting anybody. I\u2019m just making a few dollars,\u201d Webb said. \u201cBut that AK killed someone in Mexico. It\u2019s all connected and it\u2019s all relevant.\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The value of this series of watchdog stories is how they help people understand a complicated problem. We&#8217;ve all heard the violence in Mexico. It seems like a vague, distant problem with no connection to us. But the Express-News stories are answering some fundamental questions, such as, where do the guns come from? And who actually supplies them?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/johntedesco.net\/blog\/2010\/05\/20\/constitution-of-the-mexican-mafia-democracy-respect-and-no-bets-worth-more-than-ice-cream\/\" target=\"_blank\">Constitution of the Mexican Mafia: Democracy, respect and no bets worth more than ice cream<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Guillermo names names and shows readers how Texas is connected to the drug violence. 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