[karaterobot]

This article makes it seem like .50 rifles are the main reason the cartels are more powerful than the government in some areas of Mexico. Those things cost well over $10,000 apiece, and over $4 per round to fire. No expert, but I don't think that's how you take on an army.

I wish the article had focused more on the overall arms trafficking problem (which is about lots of cheap guns, not a few expensive ones) and the overall government instability problem, and (what the hell) the war on drugs that fuels it. Instead, it has a bunch of pictures of scary looking guns, and feels sensationalized and focused on the wrong thing entirely.

[floren]

> Instead, it has a bunch of pictures of scary looking guns, and feels sensationalized and focused on the wrong thing entirely.

Not particularly different from, well, all news coverage of guns.

[m3kw9]

50 cal sniper rifles allows them to perform asymmetric warfare at another level