Showing posts with label Ammunition. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ammunition. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 23, 2025

Mexican Nationals arrested with 180,000 rounds of ammunition

Mexican nationals arrested with jaw-dropping amount of ammo

Two Mexican nationals, here on temporary visas, were arrested during a routine traffic stop in Colorado last month while transporting a staggering 180,000 rounds of ammunition.

Caesar Ramon Martinez Solis, 41, and Humberto Ivan Amador Gavira, 24, were pulled over in Canon City on March 26 after Fremont County detectives spotted their white Chevrolet van passing without dimming its headlights.

The detectives also noticed the van failing to signal when turning into a gas station and had a defective license plate lamp.

What they discovered during the traffic stop left law enforcement shocked – approximately 150 boxes of .308 ammunition and about 30 boxes of 7.62 ammunition, with each box containing 1,000 rounds.

The sheer volume of ammunition seized is enough to supply a major criminal operation for months.

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Tuesday, July 11, 2023

Sending Cluster Bombs to Ukraine--Our own Defense is in Jeopardy

Biden Widely Criticized After Admitting to Military Shortages in Televised Interview

On Sunday, Joe Biden admitted during a televised interview that the United States is low on 155 mm artillery ammunition rounds, leading to widespread backlash for an act that essentially revealed classified military information to the entire world.

As Fox News reports, Biden made the remarks in an interview on CNN with Fareed Zakaria, while the subject of the Ukraine war was being discussed. Biden was defending his administration’s controversial decision to send cluster munitions to Ukraine, which he called a “transition period” until more munitions can be produced and sent to the war-torn country.

“This is a war relating to munitions. And they’re running out of that ammunition, and we’re low on it,” Biden told Zakaria in the interview. “And so, what I finally did, I took the recommendation of the Defense Department to – not permanently – but to allow for this transition period while we get more 155 weapons, these shells, for the Ukrainians.”

“Last year, WH Press Secretary Jen Psaki called the use of cluster bombs a ‘war crime' and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. condemned it.

Read about our bumbling "leader"...