September 14th, 2009
Smith & Wesson Corp., the legendary 157-year old firearms maker, announced today that it has commenced shipments of its M&P15 tactical rifles to Mexico’s Secretary of National Defense. The duty firearms will be distributed to police agencies including the Commission Federal de Electricidad (Federal Commission of Energy) and El Gobierno del Distrito Federal (Police of Federal District of Mexico).
Smith & Wesson has supplied 820 of its M&P15 tactical rifles to the Police of the Federal District of Mexico, as well as 1,500 of its M&P15 rifles to Mexico’s Department of Energy. The company has commenced armourer’s training for each agency, as well as range training for those specialized officers who will be authorized to carry the new patrol rifles.
The cynic in Murdoc wonders how long it will take for one of these to somehow turn up at a drug gang crime scene and be blamed on lax US laws about “assault weapons.”
Via Caleb
September 14th, 2009 at 9:39 pm
I also wonder if those M&P15s can be made fully automatic, and if they’re being sold as such? If they’re remaining semi-autos then they might not be as attractive to the banditos.
September 16th, 2009 at 4:31 pm
S&W had a big contract to arm the Afghan Army or police not to long ago, I believe with their Sigma pistols. Wonder how many of those wound up on some grubby Taliban’s hip.
Oh, but more to the point at hand, maybe we can blame violence in Afghanistan on S&W too.