Picture -- Mexico's only gun store

[ericire12]

http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/2009/04/01/20090401onegunstore0401.html

A shopper in Mexico City looks at firearms Tuesday at Mexico's only gun store, which is run by the military.

Take a close look at this picture of Mexico's only gun store.  Despite enormous hoops Mexicans have to jump through to buy a gun, they can purchase firearms that we can't buy in a number of states including California.





Here are the regulations placed on buying a gun in mexico:

In Mexico, the rules on civilian gun sales are much stricter (Same source):

• Owners must get a permit from the Mexican army. They must show they need a gun and demonstrate that they make "an honest living." The simplest permits take about eight days to process.

• Permission to carry a weapon requires a medical and psychological exam, as well as an exhaustive background check. Processing time is four to eight months, and the permit must be renewed annually.

• Guns can be bought at only one place: the National Defense Secretariat in Mexico City. Customers can own a total of 10 guns but only two handguns.

• Guns are registered by the military. Handguns sold under a "home defense" permit must not leave the owner's home. If the owner moves, he or she must update the gun registry. If the gun is sold, the sale must be approved by the military and the gun must change hands at the army headquarters in Mexico City.

• Gun owners can buy ammunition only for guns that they own. They are limited to a certain amount of bullets: 200 rounds every six months for a high-powered weapon, 500 rounds a month for a .22-caliber pistol.

[tt11758]

http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/2009/04/01/20090401onegunstore0401.html


Take a close look at this picture of Mexico's only gun store.  Despite enormous hoops Mexicans have to jump through to buy a gun, they can purchase firearms that we can't buy in a number of states including California.





Here are the regulations placed on buying a gun in mexico:

We've just had a glimpse of the future of the United States.................and it ain't pretty.

[ericire12]

We've just had a glimpse of the future of the United States.................and it ain't pretty.

YEP!

Mexico's 1917 Constitution gave citizens the right to bear arms "except those expressly prohibited by law." After students looted Mexico City gun stores during uprisings in the 1960s, the Mexican congress amended the constitution. The changes gave federal authorities the power to set "the circumstances, conditions, requirements and places" in which citizens could have guns. In 1995, the government abolished the last private gun stores and gave the National Defense Secretariat, which oversees the army and air force, a monopoly on gun sales.

[PoorSoulInJersey]

We've just had a glimpse of the future of the United States.................and it ain't pretty.

It depends on how you look at it. I wish my gun shop sold stuff like that and that I could buy it!

[rojawe]

They don't have to buy those evil rifles because Uncle Sam gave them most of them, I read that Mexico army has had about 130 thousand desertions and with their weapons.

[Sponsor]

[twyacht]

Remember in Mexico, having the right amount of pesos, to the "right" people can get you anything you want,...


except stinkin badges,......

[Hazcat]

Badges!  We don' need no steekin' Badges!

[MikeBjerum]

http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/2009/04/01/20090401onegunstore0401.html


Take a close look at this picture of Mexico's only gun store.  Despite enormous hoops Mexicans have to jump through to buy a gun, they can purchase firearms that we can't buy in a number of states including California.





Here are the regulations placed on buying a gun in mexico:

I think this guy is in the Law Enforcement room.  Remember that this one and only gun store has two rooms - One for the general public with their three reams of paper properly filled out to buy from , and one where only Law Enforcement can buy.  I think this guy is just drooling in candy land.