Oh they did that shit six or eight years back: I used to go to Knob Creek and buy Safety Harbor .50BMG Uppers and bring them back to sell to guys wanting to get into the half inch game...haven't been able to buy one since.ATF now calls an AR upper, in 50 BMG a firearm itself.
USA Today story? Yea, that's as credible as a Drunk in a Bar...I hold ZERO faith in their presentations, they're so bad their Papers have to be given away in Hotels.Here's an interesting article regarding Mexico:
Hacked data reveals which US gun sellers are behind Mexican cartel violence
Another headache for the gun industry just emerged. Names on thousands of gun traces in Mexico leaked in a massive data hack.www.usatoday.com
"Of the other six top purchasers, half are linked to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives scandal known as Fast and Furious.
From 2006-2011 agents in Arizona stood down as straw purchasers illegally bought 2,000 guns at shops, intending to use the information to track trafficking patterns and arrest the kingpins. However, agents didn’t deliver the high-level arrests – and in the process, they lost track of hundreds of guns.
One of those guns was recovered at the Nogales, Arizona, crime scene where U.S. Border Patrol agent Brian Terry was killed in 2010 when his tactical unit attempted to arrest a band of robbery suspects."
That just means the article is wrong.According to that, even .50 cal muzzle loaders are illegal and can't be bought, sold or possessed.