I have a CCW permit. I carry a small 9mm locked in a hidden compartment in my vehicle. I carry it everywhere. I would really like to take it to PP. Any thoughts? Nobody would even know it was in there. Just for emergencies. Thank you.
Dumb idea. Even if you had to use it to protect yourself from a crime, once the police showed up you would be arrested on the spot and probably spend a few years in a Mexican jail. All other details of the situation being meaningless. As a gringo in Mexico, if you get caught with a gun of any kind for any reason, you are screwed. Screwed bad.
A base ball bat, a machete, a hatchet, a Bowie knife, a geologists hammer and an ice pick are standard equipment in all of my vehicles and legal in Meh He Ko.
Apparently the laws vary from state to state, city to city and countryside to city but here is what the State Dept recommends:
Here's what the US State Department advises:
"Firearms and KnivesIt is best not to carry even a pocketknife into Mexico, as this can result in a weapons charge if a knife is found on a traveler who is arrested for a separate offense. Visitors driving across the border should ensure that their vehicles contain no firearms or ammunition. Mexico imposes harsh penalties for bringing as little as one bullet across its borders.
Ever think about how many knives we have on our fishing boats?
Ever think about all of the 12 gauge flare guns we have on our fishing boats?
My boat goes back and forth over the border monthly.
I always declare my deeply concealed Kel-Tec .380 auto once back on Arizona soil. Perfectly legal for a US Citizen residing in AZ with or without a CCW permit now.
Flare guns on a fishing boat and fish gutting knives with fishing tackle are likely to be construed as typically normal and acceptable equipment on board, whereas carrying either or both on your person in town would likely trigger interest from the authorities especially if stopped for another infraction.
Carrying a concealed firearm in your vehicle and posting it on a Mexican discussion forum is really asking for lengthy jail time.
That is exactly my thinking. If you have trouble in the U.S., it's most likely with one person (rapist, burglar, etc.) In Mexico it's more likely to be with several and you aren't going to shoot your way out of it. In Mexico your best defensive tool is your brain.
Oh I think it makes sense. A well hidden gun. You get into it with some thugs and scream HOLD IT while you fumble for the key to the lock box, open the hidy hole and retrieve the gun. Surely those thugs will cooperate. Forget it. Unless you have it continually within reach and practice regularly, odds are it will be taken from your and used on your and yours.
Reminds me of the impassioned testimony at a hearing about gun control. Average schmoe pleading for the right to protect his family from forceable entry. " I need to protect my children". Asked if he was not concerned about his children fooling with it he replied NO I keep it locked in the safe was his reply !!!! Excuse me sir please wait there by the door while I open the safe, get my gun and shoot you~~~~ Ha ha ha ha
Oh I think it makes sense. A well hidden gun. You get into it with some thugs and scream HOLD IT while you fumble for the key to the lock box, open the hidy hole and retrieve the gun. Surely those thugs will cooperate. Forget it. Unless you have it continually within reach and practice regularly, odds are it will be taken from your and used on your and yours.
Reminds me of the impassioned testimony at a hearing about gun control. Average schmoe pleading for the right to protect his family from forceable entry. " I need to protect my children". Asked if he was not concerned about his children fooling with it he replied NO I keep it locked in the safe was his reply !!!! Excuse me sir please wait there by the door while I open the safe, get my gun and shoot you~~~~ Ha ha ha ha
Oh oh now you've done it Roberto..teeing it up for your fellow Vietnam vet JJ to tell a war story about taking out some dangerous Honduran women and children...
Used to do gun runs down that beach on our way home south from El Salvador.
The Nick's and Cubanos were alerted by commie spies as we launched from La Union El Salvador. We had an hour flight across the Gulf of Fonseca, claimed by the Nick's. Usually did a fuel top-off at Isla Tigre, a CIA op about midway in the gulf. Sat it out there for awhile to try to fool the awaiting gauntlet. The CIA flyboys had gunned up and rocket podded Hughes 500 "little birds" They would fly out as outriders to get the Julios to come out of the Coco Palms and take a few potshots. We would come in a few feet off of the surf then let em have it with our Huey mounted M60's and 50 cals. The Little Birds would whoup up the turf a little with some 1.75" HE bottle rockets. Them brown dumb-fucks never expected to be welcomed as well as we did.
Used to land on the beach at La Union El Sal and score some fab Blue Tiger Shrimp from the pangueros and barbecue them there on the sand.
I spent a month down there after we delivered a truck of earth quake supplies in the winter of 73...then learned to surf there...love the place and it seems to be on the way back..
Oh I think it makes sense. A well hidden gun. You get into it with some thugs and scream HOLD IT while you fumble for the key to the lock box, open the hidy hole and retrieve the gun. Surely those thugs will cooperate. Forget it. Unless you have it continually within reach and practice regularly, odds are it will be taken from your and used on your and yours.
Reminds me of the impassioned testimony at a hearing about gun control. Average schmoe pleading for the right to protect his family from forceable entry. " I need to protect my children". Asked if he was not concerned about his children fooling with it he replied NO I keep it locked in the safe was his reply !!!! Excuse me sir please wait there by the door while I open the safe, get my gun and shoot you~~~~ Ha ha ha ha
Although, growing up in Phoenix with a hunter dad our weapons were always out and available-rifles, shotguns & pistols. We knew not to touch them. Of course, this also makes your weapons easy to get to for bad guys also. Now I have a safe (or two or three) that I can open half a asleep in the complete dark in 5 seconds with loaded pistols -shell in chamber so get educated about current technology.
One thing for sure-even spent casings can get you in trouble in the warped sense of law in Mexico-this scares me because there are often spent casings rolling around in the bed of my truck.
Although, growing up in Phoenix with a hunter dad our weapons were always out and available-rifles, shotguns & pistols. We knew not to touch them. Of course, this also makes your weapons easy to get to for bad guys also. Now I have a safe (or two or three) that I can open half a asleep in the complete dark in 5 seconds with loaded pistols -shell in chamber so get educated about current technology.
One thing for sure-even spent casings can get you in trouble in the warped sense of law in Mexico-this scares me because there are often spent casings rolling around in the bed of my truck.
I go shooting a lot and always check my truck carefully before entering Mexico. I have never had a problem with knives in my car, they have questioned me at Federal check points but that was it.
Just crossed back into the USA about 90 minutes ago. When we stopped in Gila Bend my buddy popped open a console under his arm rest area and removed the 2 handguns he had concealed under there. I asked him "what the heck" he said he forgot them going in Friday afternoon and just thought it was better to not say anything. Apparently he has done this many times over the last 20 years. I on the other hand almost had a stroke.....I try to color inside the lines of life whereas he chose to ignore the rules. I have been in his SUV around a 100 times and had no idea that area he had the guns in even existed.
Just crossed back into the USA about 90 minutes ago. When we stopped in Gila Bend my buddy popped open a console under his arm rest area and removed the 2 handguns he had concealed under there. I asked him "what the heck" he said he forgot them going in Friday afternoon and just thought it was better to not say anything. Apparently he has done this many times over the last 20 years. I on the other hand almost had a stroke.....I try to color inside the lines of life whereas he chose to ignore the rules. I have been in his SUV around a 100 times and had no idea that area he had the guns in even existed.
His getting caught and shipped to Mexican prison is a matter of time, likely hastened by your tip to those officials who peer into this sight now and then.
The picture in the background is Bella Sirena. That is where I have my condo but the shooting was someplace else. This should cause some cancellations.
The picture in the background is Bella Sirena. That is where I have my condo but the shooting was someplace else. This should cause some cancellations.
From the video, That is Old news, that happened in 2013. The copyright for the article is 2013.
Ever think about how many knives we have on our fishing boats?
Ever think about all of the 12 gauge flare guns we have on our fishing boats?
My boat goes back and forth over the border monthly.
I always declare my deeply concealed Kel-Tec .380 auto once back on Arizona soil. Perfectly legal for a US Citizen residing in AZ with or without a CCW permit now.
JJ
Taking a fire arm back into the US is a crime even if you have a US permit
Firearms and Ammunition
Firearms and ammunition not used as props and not brought into México with the proper permits from both the U.S. and Mexican governments, are subject to restrictions and import permits approved by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF). No import permit is required when it is proven that the firearms or ammunition were previously taken out of the United States by the person who is returning with such firearms or ammunition, and that they were registered before departing the U.S.
Baseball bat....the combination of letting the RP cops ( one I know checks the forum) know you have a gun stash and the stopping power of that shitty little pistol would just get you in more trouble especially if you really ran into the big bad wolf...