Mexico travel and protection

[Stevensje]

Does anyone know if you can take a knife to Mexico if it's checked In your bag? If so, what are the restrictions? Im guessing concealed carry is out of the question.

[Lurch]

CC is out of the question. You could try and carry a knife but pretty much any weapon is consider illegal. Also tourist are looked at as walking ATM's to the police so if seen with it you would mostly likely incur a "fine" on the spot.

What part are you traveling to?

[Fentonite]

Make sure there is not even a single stray bullet in your bags. I've carried my usual 3.5" pocket knife with no issue. I've read that you can take a small pepper spray for personal protection, but mostly, just be smart and stay away from areas that don't feel right.

[rbeau30]

... just be smart and stay away from areas that don't feel right.

Like Mexico?

[T-Giv]

Like Mexico?

x2

[HoneyBadger]

Like Mexico?
x3

I wouldn't voluntarily go within 100 miles of the border.

[Great-Kazoo]

Where in mexico? I have people down there, they all say GFL carrying anything.

[Ronin13]

Ever since the first service member was held down there I vowed never to go back. There is nothing in that shit hole country that's worth risking life or freedom.

Sent from my XT1080 using Tapatalk

[blacklabel]

Ever since the first service member was held down there I vowed never to go back. There is nothing in that shit hole country that's worth risking life or freedom.

Sent from my XT1080 using Tapatalk

I couldn't agree more. First step to not turning into a statistic is don't go where the statistics are really high.

[Zundfolge]

We just had a long argument on this site about boycotting a restaurant because they sorta-kinda caved to anti-gunners but you're willing to go to and spend money in a country that is actively trying to undermine our national sovereignty, security, economy and Second Amendment?

F that noise and F Mexico.

[Bailey Guns]

...F Mexico.

Pretty much.

[hghclsswhitetrsh]

I'm pretty sure you can conceal carry in Pueblo

[Zundfolge]

I'm pretty sure you can conceal carry in Pueblo

http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20121221124338/adventuretimewithfinnandjake/images/e/e8/I_see_what_you_did_there.jpg

[RonMexico]

Buy a knife when you get there

[ray1970]

I had some safety concerns about going to Mexico myself. My fix was to go to Hawaii instead.

[HoneyBadger]

x3

I wouldn't voluntarily go within 100 miles of the border.


And this is exactly why:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2637789/Threatening-cartel-billboards-warning-police-choose-silver-lead-come-complete-hanging-mannequins-appearing-Texas.html



Two billboards along highways in El Paso, Texas were vandalized and had mannequins hanging off of them with nooses around their necks
One reads 'silver or lead' in Spanish which is taken to mean that police and business owners can either take drug cartels' bribes or die
Worries spreading that cartels that have ruled Mexican border towns with violence may be headed north

[Great-Kazoo]

And this is exactly why:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2637789/Threatening-cartel-billboards-warning-police-choose-silver-lead-come-complete-hanging-mannequins-appearing-Texas.html

One could always vacation in Santa Barbara.

[hatidua]

While my own Mexico trips have been curtailed in the past couple of years for a variety of reasons, I don't think most tourist areas of Mexico are any more dangerous than similar destinations in other countries. My wife and her sister have not had any issues with trips by themselves to Cabo san Lucas (staying in the corridor, not in town), and I'd not hesitate to go anywhere in Yucatan or Quintana Roo (Merida area or Cancun to the Belizean border). Baja Sur is pretty quiet as well.

All that said, the police use any excuse to extort money from gringos. As much as I like Mexico, I try to limit any item or activity which would give them an opportunity to drum up some 'offense' for which I have to pay money to get out of. Guns/knives are not part of my Mexican travel experience.

[rbeau30]

I haven't seen all that I can see in my own country yet, so I have no need to go to another. It also makes my SF86 exponentially more complicated.

I will point out a bit of logic hatuida that personally I hear all the time that I disagree with. " I don't think most tourist areas of Mexico are any more dangerous than similar destinations in other countries. " All the time I hear this argument about CCW (one example of this logic). "Well nothing has happened to me before in the parking lot." or "Why do you need to carry your pistol everywhere you go?" I prefer to minimize my risk wherever I go. Taking my CCW takes minimal effort to greatly reduce my risk in everyday life. If a place goes to extreme measures to prevent me from taking simple measures to reduce my risk all while seriously INCREASING that risk, I then realize that I do not need to take such risks to give my business and money to that location.

But seriously, If you want to go to Mexico, go to mexico. Take pictures and post them, and show me what I am Missing!

Additional note: If you were able to even have a weapon to defend yourself with, if you needed to do so, you would probably be detained for a long time even in a justified self defense situation. They have very different laws and judicial system.

[DavieD55]

Perhaps the OP is going for business and not for fun?

[rbeau30]

Perhaps the OP is going for business and not for fun?

True.

[hurley842002]

And here I am throwing a fit for having to leave my 13 round G23 mags at home for my California trip in July!

[Colorado_Outback]

And here I am throwing a fit for having to leave my 13 round G23 mags at home for my Northern Mexico trip in July!

FIFY

[hurley842002]

FIFY

Lol yeah that's about accurate. If all of my wife's family didn't live there, we wouldn't be going.