Weapons seized from Drug Cartels by Mexico's Military & LE (updates)

[balalaika-san]

Strange... Why is it that 90% of their AK's (including that highly customized, gold-plated one) are Chinese 56式's ? Could they possibly have been originally supplied by China to some Latin-American Maoist guerilla movement?

I thought all communist guerilla in South America were support by Cuba.

It's not that hard to buy Chinese AK in North America, specially the semi-automatic one. Infact I belive majority of the AK-47 in North America are Chinese type59.

[GtodeO]

My contribution

[GtodeO]

[Dragunov]

[StuRat]

Can anyone ID the rifle 4th from the left?

[Engine Mech]

That looks like an Australian Leader.

[StuRat]

That's what I thought

[junglejim]

I cant imagine, how with all those guns available to them, they are easily brought down by the Military. Good thing these cartels have no concept of "training"

[Dragunov]

Firearms confiscated today by army troops in the northern state of Sinaloa.
http://www.debate.com.mx/eldebate/Ar...772&IdCat=6087









BTW, can anyone ID that sniper rifle?

[Dragunov]

[gungho]

wow... those mexican cartels were into some really serious arsenal, good thing the good guys got hold of them first before they could use it...

with that kind of arsenal, they could run for a coup to a small nation

particularly love the gold 1911s, they're just like in the movies hehe...

[Sayeret]

Could someone ID that weapon that is on the bottom row, far right hand side? It looks like some kind of short barreled AR-15 but in a caliber different than 5.56 mm.

[gafkiwi]

Could someone ID that weapon that is on the bottom row, far right hand side? It looks like some kind of short barreled AR-15 but in a caliber different than 5.56 mm.

I think it is just an M-4 varient but with a flash hider as aposed to a suppressor,brake. I think a plase called novesk or make something similar, maybe some of the US guys know the name

[asch]

Noveske .

[Wamba]

I cant imagine, how with all those guns available to them, they are easily brought down by the Military. Good thing these cartels have no concept of "training"

Other than buying them strait from corrupt police and military sources (G3's and M-4s), it looks that most of those assault rifles are bought in the gun shops in the USA, most are original semi-auto versions that may, or not, be modified to fire full-auto.