They have their traditional rackets but they should start looking at other ways to make money because they are being pushed aside on their own turf by the more powerful families and as a result their traditional rackets are shrinking.
Gun trafficking into Mexico (Send some guys out west, you can buy semi-automatics for $500 legally and legally sell for $1,500-$2000 in Mexico. The only illegal part is smuggling the guns across the border but that is what gringos are for.)
Yeah, I could totally see some velor tracksuit wearing street thugs from New Jersey driving out to Texas and showing up at some gun shows to purchase large quantities of automatic weapons. That totally would not raise any red flags at all to the ATF or the FBI. And I’m sure Vinnie and Paulie can just go knocking on doors around Laredo and El Paso looking for cartel members to sell those guns to. Sounds like a bad sitcom.
There are some real relaxed gun laws in certain US states and nobody asks too many questions.
Guns in Mexico can be sold legally and most of the buyers aren't cartel members, most of the buyers are average Mexicans and you don't have to go knocking on doors to sell the guns.
btw Laredo and El Paso are in Texas, not Mexico.
