“Minigun”: the brutal multi-barrel machine gun with which the CJNG armored the “Mencho”

Nemesio Oseguera, alias the Mencho, led to Jalisco Next Generation Cartel (CJNG) at the top of the drug trafficking map in Mexico. It also made him a target of the authorities and his rivals.

For his protection, the founder of the CJNG has adorned himself with a new shield. He is an expensive, deadly and legendary protector: the minigun, for which according to the journalist Oscar Balderas, the criminal boss acquires the parts, changes the barrel, erases the serial numbers, paints them and uses them in his personal defense.

At least ten of these weapons were acquired by the Mencho, which changed the size of the machine gun to be able to use it from armored vehicles.

The mini eraser you / o M134 It is a rotary machine gun with six cylinders and 7.62 by 51 mm ammunition, it was developed for the armies of the countries of the North Atlantic Treaty.

This weapon, whose regulations officially make it for the exclusive use of the Mexican army, has been the favorite of several criminal organizations. In 2017, when a powerful blast of the minigun, from a helicopter against a house in Nayarit, ended the life of Juan Francisco Patron Sánchez, alias the H2, identified as the leader of Beltrán Leyva and who was ambushed by elements of the navy, the Gulf Cartel showed interest in machine gun range.

Those in the Gulf were the clients of a retired American policeman, who devoted himself to buying the parts of the weapon, assembling it, and then selling them to the Mexicans. In this way, Baldera reports, the CJNG has acquired the dozen machine guns it has in its possession.

Screw by screw, piece by piece, the Mencho introduced the country to the so-called M134. In Mexico, the CJNG leader has contacts in charge of manufacturing the minigun. However, the machine gun made by the Four Letter Cartel is generally more dangerous than one might think, since its size allows the weapon to be used on the ground.

On October 17, 2019, in the so-called Culiacanazo, and in which the armed forces attempted to capture Ovidio Guzmán, the elements used the M134 machine gun.

However, the death level of the airgun was doubled on the ground by the hitmen of the Sinaloa cartel. In Infobae Mexico it has been reported that the weapon used by suspected criminals it was a machine gun M2 navigation.

This .50 caliber weapon is known around the world. It was born in 1933 and was designed towards the end of World War I by John Browing. He did so to equip the force of his French and English allies who possessed the Hotchkiss.

“The mother of all machine guns“He’s almost two meters tall and weighs around 40 kilograms which can reach 60 if the tripod is included. Its effective range is one of its strengths: 1,800 meters. However, when used as anti-aircraft artillery, its range was 300 meters, mainly to repel helicopters or planes at low speed. Fires 550 rounds per minute.

According to the Mexican governmentor, 7 of the 10 guns seized from criminals are American-made. From 2013 to 2018, 28,602 high powered rifles were seized from organized crime

The portal specializing in the Armed Forces infodefensa.com It details that the federal government bought high-powered weapons between 2010 and 2016 for $ 1,080,536. Others would have been bought later.

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