• Shardikprime@lemmy.world
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    What?

    Although there are no gunshops similar to the US, where you could go and buy a pistol, revolver, rifle, etc., there are still plenty of Hunting and Sporting Stores all around the country that can legally sell low caliber weapons and ammo to those with valid permit. Allowed calibers are .22, .25, .32 o .380 and .38 SPL.

    Its usually a few per big city and is tend to be visited by a small group of people that usually go to shooting ranges, have ranches or belongs to a hunting/shooting club.

    It’s not only one store LMAO 🤣

    Its common for people in rural areas to be a gun owner and rare for city dwellers to do so. Yet you can find people that inherited old guns.

    Since the 90’s, the Army has regular buy off campaigns to convince the people to get rid of their guns

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      Mexico only has one store that sells firearms, and its federally owned. I’m unsure if you can buy ammo outside of the federally controlled gun store, but I don’t believe you can, and there are DEFINITELY no firearm stores in the city. There are airgun shops, but that’s it. Im honestly not sure why you felt the need to comment this when its verifiably false, but my child will spread misinformation on the internet I guess

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    So the cartels, who profit directly from the high demand of drugs by Americans, were given weapons, by Americans, to meet that demand of drugs. They then essentially hijacked the mexican government with those guns and violence in order to keep their drug supply available to Americans, meanwhile destroying hope for peaceful life for many many towns and people in mexico. But it’s the Mexicans trying to escape those problems, once again created by demand in the US, who are the problem?

    How very fucking American.

    You know who doesn’t have a fentanyl problem? Mexico. They’re not the ones creating demand.

    I’m simplifying, I know, but I’m very fucking tired of Mexicans and South Americans being blamed as if the US hadn’t fucked the entire country and almost the entire South American continent over for the last 50 years.

    I know I’m probably preaching to the choir here but fuck man I’m just tired.

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    Yeah and not just guns that are smuggled abroad from the US. Most illegal guns in Europe come from former wars, stolen out of abandoned and badly secured depots. The balkans, Iraq and Afghanistan. And once the war in Ukraine is over many unused weapons will flow into the European criminal circuit.

    The entire Military Industrial Complex is making the world more dangerous even during peace time.

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    Wrong. I don’t know why Jay Hulme feels the need to lie but there is more than one gun store in Mexico.

    A quick look at Wikipedia clearly shows that there are actually two gun stores.

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    Because screenshots of what someone said on social media aren’t journalism:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firearms_regulation_in_Mexico

    Mexico has restrictive laws regarding gun possession. There are only two stores in the entire country, DCAM near the capital, and OTCA, in Apodaca, Nuevo León. It also takes months of paperwork to have a chance at purchasing one legally.

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      So you’re saying it’s easier to get a gun in Mexico than a RTX 5000 GPU in the US

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          nah. You should probably buy a gun now if you aren’t a danger to yourself.

          EDIT: Assuming you are in the US or its neighbours.

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              My local gun store is a guy with a pile of ammo the size of a minivan in his attic. He got a FFL collectors license or something, I don’t know the precise legalities, so he can build his own and get rare shit without having to, honestly I’m not sure whether he pays more tax now than he would have, but the paperwork has got to be worse. Maybe he has a paperwork fetish. That actually does sound like him.

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              Eh, if I’m in a situation I need to use my gun, the gun store is either defunct or I don’t care about federal law anymore.

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          If I was living in the US, I’d definitely stock up on guns and ammo at this point. Not that it’ll help, when the fascists come for you, but at least I wouldn’t go down without a fight.

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            This is the one reason I’m happy Biden was in office. It gave everyone four more years to prepare. Marginalized communities were some of the heaviest buyers during that time. Small arms have been used to inflict losses on fascists since fascists became a thing. Disarmed groups are substantially more in danger than armed groups.

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        Yeah, but since the RTX 5000 doesn’t even exist, it’s no wonder

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          It definitely exists, why comment that and not take 5 seconds to look it up? It’s such a common thing and it’s just mind-boggling to me, don’t say shit if you haven’t even tried to verify it.

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            Sure, that’s on me. But the commenter was clearly referring to the RTX 5000 generation cards rather than RTX 5000 card since the implication that he’s having difficulties building an AI computer cluster is silly.

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      I’m glad this got linked. It’s definitely the gun version of “you’re not fighting the predator by buying more cats… you’re just feeding it cats.”

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    Most places, if not all places there’s a war, there are American weapons. Remember all the people coming after the American soldiers in Black Hawk Down, well they used American weapons.

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      Sounds to me like someone should build a barrier of some sort to keep all those undesirables from the south out of their country.

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    They do get many from straw purchases here, which is already illegal can get you 10+yr in federal prison.

    But also they get a fuckton of full auto guns that are illegal here from the mexican military’s corrupt members, and other sources like china, somehow they get explosives too including south korean grenades have been found which is wild, and the best is Operation Fast & Furious, where the ATF just directly sold them a bunch of AKs “to track” and then surprise! “lost” them. They get em from multiple sources.

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    Not sure if I’d really use the troubles as a defense against the proliferation of personal ownership of firearms…

    Kinda hard to claim you’ve been “radicalized” by denying other radicalized individuals the ability to fight off a oppressive foreign government with a long history of genocidal tyranny against your entire ethnicity.

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      … most of witch regimes were set up and funded (weapons too) by the USA or Russia. Usually they were terrorist groups before forming a formal government. And the problem being that the status quo is usually the most profitable and politically beneficial (gives the mentioned colonisers more direct power over the de fuckto marionette countries).

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    Too fast, too furious…

    https://www.cnn.com/2013/08/27/world/americas/operation-fast-and-furious-fast-facts/index.html

    The craziest thing cartels buying guns in America and smuggling them into Mexico isnt that the US government was selling to people they thought were smugglers.

    It’s that the people at the gun store are doing the same shit people are doing all over the place.

    The used gun market is insane, I know a couple people that constantly buy new guns and sell them less than a year later. They don’t question why some person is willing to buy $200 over new price for a used gun.

    And the way the law is structured, that’s in their best interest.

    If a random person walks up and asks to buy a gun, you don’t have to ask any other questions as a “private seller” and since you can only get in trouble if you know that person can’t own a gun, the less questions the better.

    The “private sale” loophole makes every other gun law just a slight hassle to get around. But no one wants to actually close it.

    Edit:

    It also incentives those sales.

    No gun store will pay as much as someone who can’t buy from a gun store.

    So to make sure someone ends up with that can legally have it, the seller loses money.

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    Reminder that as of 2025, the US is the only country with more privately owned guns than people, at 120.5 guns per 100 people… The 2nd highest is the Falkland Islands at 62.1 guns per 100 people.

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      Do the Falklands count as a country? I’m not sure what the situation is there.

      Also, New Zealand is pretty high up on the list.

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      Seriously though, what the fuck is the civilian excuse for guns on the Falklands? The only native natural predator that could hurt the sheep is long extinct. I guess they’re afraid the sheep will have a revolution.

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          If the Argentine army lands, drafting the sheep and giving them guns isn’t going to stop an occupation any more than it did before.

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              That’s more of a llama area when it comes to large angry herbavores. They actually supposedly ended up doing just that with the llamas and then had to hunt them down.

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                I have very little knowledge about llamas. I heard they’re feisty but I’ve never seen one in the flesh.

                Closest thing I’m familiar with are alpacas and camels.