Mexico’s government plans to offer up to $1,300 for people who hand in firearms including machine guns and assault rifles under a citizen disarmament program aimed at reducing violent crime.
The financial incentives for people dropping off weapons at collection points in churches were published late Monday in the country’s official gazette.
They include 8,700 pesos ($430) for a revolver, 25,000 pesos ($1,200) for an AK-47 rifle and 26,450 pesos ($1,300) for a machine gun.
President Claudia Sheinbaum last month encouraged residents to participate in the “Yes to Disarmament, Yes to Peace” program, assuring those skeptical that they would not be prosecuted if they gave up weapons.
“It’s about setting up places like the lobbies of churches where people can go to turn in their weapons voluntarily, and give them economic incentives to give up their firearms,” she said.
“We also had it in Mexico City and it had significant results,” added the former mayor of the capital city, home to around nine million people.
Mexico is plagued by violent crime linked to the multibillion-dollar illegal drug trade.
I mean… It’s not the first mexican government to do this and I doubt it will be the last (specially being so deep in with the narcos), usually ends up being the local seller’s family giving the old guns away and getting some spare cash while the seller still buys more guns, so the cycle continues.
Sometimes weird things happen, like someone bringing in bazookas or a fucking torpedo.
Time to start making $500 machine guns
Not particularity hard. You can buy semi-auto guns for less than that, and a skilled machinist can typically make one part different to turn a semi-atuo into full auto. Mexcio has plenty of skilled machinists.
Don’t even need a machinist. Or skill. You just need to see what little bit of metal stops the sear is there and take a file to it until the sear isn’t stopped when the trigger is held down.
A skilled machinest can dothis much faster and in quanity.
I’ll give them $1400 to sell them to me. (For legal purposes, that was a joke. Please don’t kill my
dogcats, officer.)
