America’s Third War:U.S. Arming Cartels

If you ever watch video or look at pictures of the drug war in Mexico, you’ll notice some pretty heavy weapons. This is a war being waged with rockets and plastic explosives, not pea shooters and Saturday Night Specials. Consider these incidents:

- A M26A2 fragmentation grenade used against a U.S. Consulate in Mexico in 2008

- Explosive projectiles and 21 grenades found during a raid in Guadalupe

- An unexploded grenade and pull ring used to attack a TV station in Monterrey 

- Automatic weapons, including U.S.-made M16s, found at a cartel crime scene in May 2009

You can’t buy this stuff at a U.S. gun store. So where do the cartels get it?-[source]