Illegals moving ammunition through Colorado and Wyoming

[funkymonkey1111]

https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/new...into-colorado/

https://cowboystatedaily.com/2025/04...ounds-of-ammo/


Have you guys seen this? 180,000 rounds of .308 intercepted in Canon City, and another 18,000 in Rawlins, WY--and that's just what they've caught. I'm all for buying anything and everything you want, but two Mexican dudes buying 180,000 rounds of ammo at a time might raise an eyebrow....

[kidicarus13]

Failure to dim headlights. No kidding.

I call it rollin' heavy.

[Fromk]

There's certainly a lot to unpack here. What gets me thinking is if two shipments were caught because of dumb luck how many got to their destination?

Or was "failure to dim headlights" the reason they were pulled over on the paperwork for probable cause?

[APEXgunparts]

I have been following this story on another forum.
Looks like they were charged with a crime.

The two men in the van were from Mexico, according to a criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court earlier this month.
They had valid B-2 tourist visas and were charged under a rarely used statute: “Unlawful Possession of Ammunition by Alien Admitted Under a Nonimmigrant Visa.”

Richard

[TEAMRICO]

WHO sold it to them???

That’s the question.

[BushMasterBoy]

"Destined for Pueblo". I know what it was going to be used for. Nice police work!

[FoxtArt]

I too, really strongly they were pulled over for bright headlights. That specifically is an arbitrary allegation that is very difficult to disprove if someone has a dashcamera. It's also quite petty, not something most officers would pull someone over for.

It's an ideal reason to pull over what one simply feels is a "suspicious vehicle/person" whether tipped in advance, or not.

[Doc45]

Putting "I had a hunch" wouldn't go far in a report but saying the headlights didn't dim when oncoming is a vaild way to verify that hunch of a car "rolling dirty". Good on them for the stop/arrests.

[.455_Hunter]

What I would like to know is:

Was this part of "normal" cartel Class V logistic operations that just happened to get disrupted due to perp ineptitude or improved post-Jan 20 surveillance?

Or...

Something far more sinister planned for either north or south of the border?

[theGinsue]

Something far more sinister planned for either north or south of the border?

I read the story about the 2 Mexicans caught with the 180000 rounds the day after it happened and since then I've been wondering the same things.