What's up with ATF alert to FFLs about suspicious large caliber rifles?

[motorcarman]

I just got a voice mail about an alert regarding suspicious purchases of large caliber rifles in Texas.

Are we seceding and I was not notified?

 

[Eastexasrick]

I just got a voice mail about an alert regarding suspicious purchases of large caliber rifles in Texas.

Are we seceding and I was not notified?

Yes.

 

[Byrd666]

...Straw purchases of .50 cal. and or belt fed rifles in Texas for 60 days...

 

[John Sam Rayburn]

...Straw purchases of .50 cal. and or belt fed rifles in Texas for 60 days...

Is that what the alert was about ?

Are Straw Purchases more common with .50 cals and belt-feds than less expensive rifles?

I thought they would be far less common.

 

[Byrd666]

Yup. I was kinda' wondering why the specificity of belt fed though.

 

[rr2241tx]

BATFE having another sale for cartels? Wouldn’t bet against it. Also, very likely a false flag exercise to trap more legal FFLs.

 

[baboon]

Yup. I was kinda' wondering why the specificity of belt fed though.

Because they don't include belts as magazines in commie occupied states.

 

[Otto_Mation]

They probably squeezed some intel out of these guys.

Seven charged with making ‘straw’ purchases of guns destined for Mexico

Six suspects are behind bars and one is on the lam for allegedly buying guns to be illegally exported to Mexico, federal authorities said.

news.yahoo.com

 

[Byrd666]

Because they don't include belts as magazines in commie occupied states.

California. Arizona, and New Mexico were not mentioned, nor were any other belt calibers. Which is why I'm also wondering about it.

 

[GeorgeS]

They don't want their black helicopters shot down?

 

[TXAZ]

A .50 is a terrible “thing” to face in anger, and makes a mess of almost everything it touches. (Especially Volvo engine blocks )
So I can understand the concern, as the cartels have the money and dupes to get .50 cal and other anti-materiel rifles, but the logistics are still a limitation for them.

 

[Otto_Mation]

 

[TAZ]

A .50 is a terrible “thing” to face in anger, and makes a mess of almost everything it touches. (Especially Volvo engine blocks )
So I can understand the concern, as the cartels have the money and dupes to get .50 cal and other anti-materiel rifles, but the logistics are still a limitation for them.

The cartels aren’t buying 50 or belt Feds in Tx. They get those donated to them by the MX military/police who in turn gets them courtesy the US tax payer.

More likely, it has something to do with white supremacy cause that’s the only threat these days.


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[popper]

^^^^ Yup. Wonder when Mexico will give them the blackhawks we gave the Gov?

 

[OutlawStar]

I wonder if the Taliban/Al Quaeda (or whoever is in charge over there) have such a surplus of equipment they'd sell to Somali pirates or Mexican cartels? Can you imagine stuff like Abrams tanks secretly being shipped to some drug lord's army? Or entire shipping containers of military small arms? It'd be funny if it weren't kinda scary.

 

[paknheat]

I wonder if the Taliban/Al Quaeda (or whoever is in charge over there) have such a surplus of equipment they'd sell to Somali pirates or Mexican cartels? Can you imagine stuff like Abrams tanks secretly being shipped to some drug lord's army? Or entire shipping containers of military small arms? It'd be funny if it weren't kinda scary.

A deal like that has probably already been done.

FJB.

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[John Sam Rayburn]

I wonder if the Taliban/Al Quaeda (or whoever is in charge over there) have such a surplus of equipment they'd sell to Somali pirates or Mexican cartels?

The C.I.A. has controlled the international narcotics trade since at least the 1960's.

They ship weapons to whomever brings them the highest profits, and play criminal factions against each other like the British did in the 19th century.

In the 60's it was Heroin from Vietnam. In the 70's it was weed from Mexico. In the 80's it was cocaine from Columbia. In the 90's it was Heroin from Afghanistan. In this century they have diversified into Child Trafficking and Fentanyl in Ukraine.

 

[leVieux]

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My late Dad came out of his WWII Counter-Intelligence service with the conviction that the OSS/CIA was inadequately observed, controlled, or financially monitored. Dad felt that the CIA was a great danger to continued U S Citizen Liberty.

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[seeker_two]

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My late Dad came out of his WWI Counter-Intelligence service with the conviction that the OSS/CIA was inadequately observed, controlled, or financially monitored. Dad felt that the CIA was a great danger to continued U S Citizen Liberty.

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I thought OSS was a WWII thing....

 

[Axxe55]

I thought OSS was a WWII thing....

iirc the Oss was the predecessor to the cia!