People have been running guns into Mexico since the days of Pancho Villa.

I guy I once knew used to run M-16's into Mexico where he swapped them for drugs that he then sold in the US. When the Fed's finally caught him he had $600,000,000 in cash sitting in a warehouse he owned in Grand Prairie, Texas. This was in the early 80's.

He claimed to be in the Commercial Real Estate business. I guess he did need a lot of warehouse space.

Mexico has never been a safe place to travel for as long as I have been traveling and that has been for about 50 years. I was going to go to Baja once and was told by the Mexican Ambassador to take a machine gun since I would likely need it. That was in the early 1970's.

I NEVER go anywhere without hiring a local driver who can talk his way past checkpoints.