Fast die Hälfte der von der mexikanischen Regierung beschlagnahmten Munition im Kaliber .50 stammte aus einem Werk der US-Armee, sagt der Verteidigungsminister
https://www.icij.org/news/2026/02/nearly-half-of-powerful-50-caliber-ammo-seized-by-mexican-government-came-from-us-army-plant-defense-minister-says/?utm_campaign=news&utm_medium=social&utm_source=reddit
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I’m not surprised. There can’t be a million .50 calibre ammunition factories in Mexico, and there’s literally hundreds of thousands of US service members. Whether it’s corruption or the cartels sending people to join to get access to arms & ammunition, that’s probably the easiest way to get hold of it.
DUH! Written in capital letters is insufficient to express the level of…..words fail me….lack of education.
When I was stationed at Fort Bliss we had 100% ammunition/brass turn in requirements specifically so that there was no chance of ammunition being stolen. If we didn’t return 100% of unused live ammunition or expended brass then the DA 5811 had to go all the way up to the division commander for approval.
I have personally had to rake through El Paso desert sand under the August sun looking for lost 5.56 brass, instead of having to get lost ammunition paperwork signed off by a 2 star. Anything like large amounts of .50 or large caliber ammunition being lost would have gotten very significant investigations.
So that is to say, if cartels are getting 50 cal ammo from the US army plants, it’s not because a select few soldiers are managing to sneak any away from training. Any significant amount of ammo being skimmed off the top would need to be coming from higher up the food chain in the logistics process, or directly from the plant itself. Ammunition is strictly accounted for once it’s in the ASP/Unit level. It’s much more likely this ammunition is being legally purchased on the civilian market and then smuggled south, instead of being stolen from the military supply.
Shocker!
Nearly all the ammo coming from the country with the most guns in the world.
Shocker!
The US also leaves most of their their vehicles being after wars. That way they have a reason to fight again in a few years and get to waste billions in taxes building new ones
Lake City sells NATO rounds to the public. .50 cal is an expensive NATO round not popular for hunting. No shit a large percentage of it found anywhere would be from a US surplus ammo seller. No one else is making this at quantity. Saying its from the military is disengnious. Lake City was a WW2 munitions plant but now it also produces ammo for consumers…..
Well duh? I mean that’s not really shocking is it?
Operation F&F
Pretty scary that the cartels have that powerful level of ammo. I have personally seen what a 50 cal round does to a human being. Really messy.
I wonder how much trade Mexico in America do on the black market. They buy our guns we buy their drugs if anything it’s the Mexican border patrol to keep the guns out.
Where was the other.50 caliber ammo made?
I hope they resolve this Fast, Mexico must be Furious
Turns out when you freely sell deadly weapons and ammunition to the public, bad guys can buy it too. Who knew.
100% of this is coming from the Mexican army and national police. They have been corrupt for decades. I highly doubt less that 5% is smuggled through the border to Mexico from the US.
I saw a youtube video a while back where they were asking a Mexican Federale about the corruption in the Mexican police.
He immediately said: „The US Border Patrol is much more corrupt…where do you think all the guns the cartels get come from?“