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May 4th Mexican Drug War Pr0n
2012-05-04
Posted by: badanov

The rifleman in the middle appears to be holding a Milkor 40mm automatic grenade launcher. See the link in the title for the Wikipedia description of the weapon.

Mexican Army road patrols sometimes deploy with a Humvee mounted Mk19 40mm belt fed grenade launcher. I have seen news photos of those in La Laguna in Coahuila state.

On either side are two riflemen with G3A3 rifles.

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