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Mexican Navy seizes 910 weapons
2011-11-28
Posted by: badanov

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The Mexican Navy intercepted a cargo container with several hundred different firearms at a port in western Mexico Sunday evening.

The container was to be transferred at the Michoacan state port city of Lazaro Cardenas and delivered to Puerto Corinto, Nicaragua. Inside the container were 910 firearms including one 7.55mm pistol, 158 9mm pistols and 756 12 gage shotguns.

The container's country of origination was Turkey. The seizure is said to be Mexico's largest in modern history.