Even Prison Can’t Stop People from Providing Guns to Cartels

Earlier today, I wrote about a North Korean arms dealer who was caught trying to make a sale to a Ukrainian warlord. I talked about how people like this could arm the cartels, and likely already have, and that American gun control would never stop the flow of guns into Mexico.

And it’s true. The cartels have money, and arms dealers tend to like money.

In fact, they like it so much that even sitting in a prison cell, some will try to broker hundreds of thousands of dollars in illicit weapons deals.

A man will serve 25 years in prison without parole after pleading guilty to orchestrating a military-grade gun trade with drug cartels.

U.S. Attorney Theodore Hertzberg said he was able to pull the crime off while locked up in a Georgia state prison.

“It’s terribly frustrating,” said Hertzberg.

The U.S. Attorney said back in 2024, the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms started noticing a number of people were buying machine guns in metro Atlanta with cash.

During their investigation, agents discovered more than 223 guns purchased.

“The price of all these firearms is over $700,000,” said Benjamin Gibbons.

Gibbons is the Special Agent in Charge of the Atlanta Division of the ATF.

“These are the weapons of choice for one reason and one reason alone. That is violence to advance drug trafficking efforts,” said Gibbons.

He said some of the firearms are strong enough to take down armored vehicles and small aircraft. Others can fire nearly 1,000 bullets in a minute.

From this description, it sounds like we’re talking about .50 BMG rifles and Glocks. They’re not machine guns being purchased with cash, though, if that’s the case, since the switch is a different thing, and the ATF can’t really track them since they’re illegally manufactured.

Still, the takeaway here isn’t so much that someone was buying guns for the cartels. The takeaway is that despite all of the restrictions we have on what goes in and out of prisons, this guy not just got a cell phone, but was able to make weapons deals in the neighborhood of three-quarters of a million dollars from his cell.

I mean, I respect a hustle and someone not letting their circumstances keep them in check, but damn. This is just ridiculous.

Yes, there’s a fair bit of alarmism about the guns in question, also, including the whole “machine gun” thing, which is troubling. I mean, if they are talking about Glocks and the DOJ is now classifying them as machine guns, even in rhetoric, how long until they decide to come after ours? I don’t want an auto sear and never have. I got a Glock 19 because I wanted something with more aftermarket support and easier concealability than my CZ-75B. That’s it.

Is this a machine gun now because of an illegal device?

Luckily, this isn’t law. It’s an attorney trying to make his case look as important as he can.

Still, despite the scary rhetoric, the really scary part is that if we can’t keep inmates from making arms deals, it should be all the evidence anyone needs that gun control isn’t going to work, and that won’t be some people’s takeaway here.

Editor’s Note: The radical Left will stop at nothing to enact their radical gun control agenda and strip us of our Second Amendment rights.

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