Ed Calderon
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And then you look at the box where they came in and you see a label that says Arizona on it.
And you're like, cabrรณn, you know, that's a weird thing to find on this fucking crack house that we're at.
And then a few of my friends got killed with these FN-57 pistols.
It's a high-velocity round that comes in them.
It was kind of fabricated in the Cold War to fight Russians invading Europe, and they wanted to be able to penetrate their body armor with small pistols and small sub-guns that they might have in urban areas.
So we started seeing those and just a massive amount of firearms being delivered specifically to senior law cartel groups in the area that we're working with.
And we didn't know anything about it, like where all these things come from.
Apparently in the U.S., during the Bush administration, they started an operation that was meant to track firearms being straw purchased in places like Arizona and other parts of the U.S.,
By individuals being gathered by cartel members, put into cars, and then driven down to Mexico to supply the cartels.
The ATF was involved in all this.
Eric Holder was very involved in all this.
Their plan or theory was, we're going to track these guns when they go down to Mexico.
But nothing got tracked or at least we don't know of anything that got really tracked or any high level arrest made because of the guns that they they were just allowed to.
What do you think is really going on?
Because that sounds like a bullshit cover.
We're just tracking these guns.
I mean, what do you do when you want to destabilize a region if you're another country?
You give guns to the shit-suckers.
I mean, back then, it was a Sinaloa cartel trying to fight control over the area, over some people that were coming, like the Zetas and other organizations.
And I don't know, why would you send guns to this specific region?