El Chapo jury terrified by AK-47, grenade launcher demonstration
By Emily Saul December 20, 2018 | 8:06pm | Updated

Prosecutors sent the El Chapo jury home with a bang on Thursday, after a firearms expert spent the afternoon waltzing around the courtroom wielding an AK-47 and a grenade launcher.

The jurors, equal parts entranced and terrified, watched as a unit chief from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms showed off the weapons that Joaquin Guzman and the Sinaloa Cartel allegedly used in in their everyday operations while trafficking drugs.

Before expert Max Kingery entered the courtroom, El Paso Detective Paul Lozano explained his team had followed a suspicious vehicle to a home on 12412 Tierra Bella Drive in January 2010. They obtained a search warrant, and inside found 40 AK-47s, seven bulletproof vests, 80 magazines — and a Christmas tree.

It’s not yet clear from testimony how the home, or the weapons, are tied to Guzman.


But jurors were treated to the gun show anyway, as Kingery told the court how easy it was to turn a semi-automatic gun into an automatic one. All 40 of the seized rifles were brought into the courtroom, wheeled in by agents in evidence carts.

While some members of the panel were transfixed as he stood, less than 2 feet from the jury box, whipping around the rifle, others seemed shell-shocked.

“This won’t fire,” he finally said, before pulling the trigger on one of the AK-47s, sending a resounding click echoing through the courtroom and one of the more frightened jurors shooting back in her chair.

But there was more in store for that juror, as Kingery popped open a hard-shelled case and next whipped out a disabled grenade, and then, a rocket-propelled-grenade launcher.



He balanced the launcher on the edge of the jury box as the explosive testimony continued.

As an additional holiday treat, he also pulled out a machine gun — though none were found in the El Paso home — to explain the difference between shooting a semi-automatic weapon and an automatic one.

Multiple witnesses have testified that Guzman was often surrounded by a crew toting AK-47s, and even allegedly had his own, plated in gold.

The accused drug kingpin has pleaded not guilty to a fusillade of charges, including running an ongoing criminal enterprise, international drug distribution, money laundering, and possessing firearms.

Thursday’s explosive testimony was the last jurors will hear until Jan. 3, when the trial will resume following a holiday break.

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For fucks sake...was that gun masturbation necessary?

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As an additional holiday treat, he also pulled out a machine gun — though none were found in the El Paso home — to explain the difference between shooting a semi-automatic weapon and an automatic one.

Why didn't they wheel in a mini-gun - though none were found in the home.

El Chapo is a murdering, drug dealing, BRIBING (the biggest problem in Mexico IMHO) POS. Everyone on at *least* 2 continents knows that.

Any Fast & Furious guns in those 40 AKs?

In the correct context I'd be willing to bet the jury would be equally as terrified seeing a metal stamping machine used to stamp car panels into shape.

Perhaps they should have shown the jury pictures of people with their faces removed, and the remainder of their bodies burned, and drilled . . . these fucks deserve every punishment available to us. We should be grateful to the Department of Justice for prosecuting the filth.

Yeah seriously.

Show them vids that are all over the net of cartels flaying people alive, cutting all limbs off while alive, and yes lots of live face removals...with knives.

You want to see some mid evil shit? Cartel videos. These people operate in the us too.

Thank goodness they didn't introduce a 3D printer into evidence, talk about scary!

Any bets on how many times he swept people in the courtroom during his little show? I would have lost my shit - even as a juror. It would have made the news in a big way, my lecture to the ATF flunky on basic firearms safety.

-Rob

And he told the jury how easy it was to convert semi-auto firearms into full-auto ones?

flashguy

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Any bets on how many times he swept people in the courtroom during his little show?

I was thinking the same thing. I bet they were swept more than a broom.

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You want to see some mid evil shit? Cartel videos. These people operate in the us too.

But to talk about that would be racist.

I would have thought that the government would have had their top dogs on this one. Sounds like a shit show. I could not help being reminded of the ATF guy shooting himself in the foot while demonstrating safe use of his pistol.

I wish I'd have been on the jury..... I would have asked if any of those firearms were provided by Obama's DOJ! Ass wipes!

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Originally posted by RAMIUS:
Yeah seriously.

Show them vids that are all over the net of cartels flaying people alive, cutting all limbs off while alive, and yes lots of live face removals...with knives.

You want to see some mid evil shit? Cartel videos. These people operate in the us too.

Law enforcement should not deal with "people" like that. I think the military should. The brutality of those fucks is sickening.

And yet Mexico blames their violence on our demand for drugs and us supplying guns.

Guns are bad ..... don't do guns ....mmmmkay