{"id":1791,"date":"2014-02-26T02:17:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-26T02:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2014\/02\/26\/i-wonder-where-he-got-that-ak-47\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:23:45","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:23:45","slug":"i-wonder-where-he-got-that-ak-47","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=1791","title":{"rendered":"I Wonder Where He Got That AK-47"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:12149,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.cnn.com\\\/2014\\\/02\\\/23\\\/world\\\/americas\\\/el-chapo-capture\\\/index.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260303121013\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.cnn.com\\\/2014\\\/02\\\/23\\\/world\\\/americas\\\/el-chapo-capture\\\/index.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-19 09:21:20&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-19 09:21:20&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:12150,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.businessinsider.com\\\/fast-and-furious-guns-sinaloa-cartel-2012-8&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250821104852\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.businessinsider.com\\\/fast-and-furious-guns-sinaloa-cartel-2012-8&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-19 09:22:08&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-19 09:22:08&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2014\/02\/23\/world\/americas\/el-chapo-capture\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Making the headlines this past weekend<\/a> was the capture of Sinaloa drug cartel kingpin Joaquin &#8220;El Chapo&#8221; Guzman by Mexican marines in a joint US-Mexico operation. What caught my eye in the story of how they got Guzman was this little detail.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>\n<i>&#8220;He had <b>an AK-47 <\/b>next to the bed. When the Mexican marines entered the condominium, he was still asleep,&#8221; said Michael Vigil, a former Drug Enforcement Administration official who says he was briefed on the raid. &#8220;They used the element of surprise, and he did not have a chance to react and seize his weapon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Guzman had an assault rifle and ammunition close by when Mexican marines broke into the apartment in a &#8220;surgical&#8221; operation, the Mexican official said.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What makes this detail so intriguing is that so many of the AKs &#8220;walked&#8221; to Mexico during Operation Fast and Furious ended up in Sinaloa Cartel hands. Indeed, the cartel&#8217;s logistics head who is in US custody, Jesus Vicente Zambada-Niebla,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/fast-and-furious-guns-sinaloa-cartel-2012-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> has argued in court filings that the walked guns<\/a> were meant to arm the Sinaloa Cartel in their fight with their rivals.<\/p>\n<p>You have to wonder if that AK-47 was a walked firearm and, if so, will the serial numbers be sent to BATFE for tracing. For some reason, I think while the Justice Department is quite pleased that they &#8220;got Shorty&#8221;, I don&#8217;t think they will ever want that particular AK-47s serial numbers traced. The answer might not be to their liking.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Making the headlines this past weekend was the capture of Sinaloa drug cartel kingpin Joaquin &#8220;El Chapo&#8221; Guzman by&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[541,544,1646],"class_list":["post-1791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-joaquin-guzman","tag-project-gunwalker","tag-sinaloa-cartel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1791"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9752,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1791\/revisions\/9752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}