Border Patrol agents intercept ammunition heading to Mexico
Sat, 03/19/2011 - 12:01am
Some of the ammunition border officials confiscated on Sunday. The Border Patrol seized 4,951 rounds of 9 mm and 500 round of .40-caliber pistol ammunition.
(Photo courtesy Customs and Border Protection)
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Send to friendTUCSON — Nogales station Border Patrol agents prevented nearly 5,000 rounds of ammunition from being smuggled out of the United States and into the hands of transnational criminal organizations in Mexico on Sunday.
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Boy is the BATF ever going to be POed at the Border Patrol!
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Great job by the Border Patrol. So the drug cartels finally have good business sense - use the backpacks to haul drugs north then fill them with ammo and head back south. Now if they’d only pick up some of the litter left behind by "migrants" on their way back across the border