{"id":8468,"date":"2015-10-03T12:00:13","date_gmt":"2015-10-03T17:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=8468"},"modified":"2015-10-03T12:00:13","modified_gmt":"2015-10-03T17:00:13","slug":"homebrew-guns-the-cartel-guerilla-gunsmiths-that-make-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2015\/10\/03\/homebrew-guns-the-cartel-guerilla-gunsmiths-that-make-them\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Homebrew Guns&#8221; &amp; the Cartel Guerilla Gunsmiths that Make Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/10\/lowers.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8527\" src=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/10\/lowers.jpg?w=620\" alt=\"lowers\" width=\"620\" height=\"351\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was usually evening when the three men arrived at the shop. They would roll up in a Volkswagen Beetle, and come to a halt at a nondescript, garage-sized warehouse in a strip of shops in a residential neighborhood in Guadalajara, in Southwestern Mexico\u2019s Jalisco state. They would park the Bug, and proceed to drink on the curb. Eventually the men would go inside, entering through a street door. They always locked the door behind them.<\/p>\n<p>This went on for at least two months in 2014, according to a neighbor of the shop, where the men seemed to work odd hours. They never drew much attention to themselves, so there was little reason to believe their shop, located at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/@20.629642,-103.385405,3a,75y,177.59h,77.16t\/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1scyB0ux18uEqOg1CqQ33H-g!2e0!7i13312!8i6656\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">calle Isla Trapani 2691<\/a>, was in fact a sophisticated illegal gun manufacturing plant, and that the three of them were using the space to quietly produce homemade, untraceable firearms for one of Mexico\u2019s fastest-growing and violent crime syndicates.<\/p>\n<p>They hid in plain sight, the homebrew gun club for a powerful new gang, the Jalisco New Generation Cartel. The Jalisco cartel has undergone such a meteoric, savage rise to power in the last few months that the head of criminal investigations for Mexico\u2019s attorney general labeled the gang a <a href=\"https:\/\/news.vice.com\/article\/only-two-cartels-are-left-in-mexico-government-official-claims\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cred flag.\u201d<\/a> The group is<a href=\"https:\/\/news.vice.com\/article\/only-two-cartels-are-left-in-mexico-government-official-claims\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> terrorizing the region<\/a> with coordinated attacks on government installations. In May, Jalisco cartel members<a href=\"https:\/\/news.vice.com\/article\/mexico-raises-death-toll-in-helicopter-attack-warns-of-more-violence-in-drive-against-cartel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">downed a Mexican military helicopter with a rocket-propelled grenade<\/a>. Six soldiers were killed. The Jalisco cartel is also behind a rash of fiery roadblocks, in which cartel operatives set large vehicles and gas stations ablaze as a show of strength and to incite chaos. The cartel has been behind 39 of these roadblocks as of today; one of them, just blocks away from the site of the gang&#8217;s boutique gun lab, involved a public transit bus.<\/p>\n<p>Read the Remainder at<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/read\/the-cartel-gunsmiths\">Motherboard<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was usually evening when the three men arrived at the shop. They would roll up in a Volkswagen Beetle, and come to a halt at a nondescript, garage-sized warehouse in a strip of shops in a residential neighborhood in Guadalajara, in Southwestern Mexico\u2019s Jalisco state. They would park the Bug, and proceed to drink&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[13,74,2004,10,24],"tags":[2346,2347,2348,2349,2350],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8468"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}