I'm not interested in a squabble, but I'm mildly curious. Was it this guy, or someone else?
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/05/02/marine-mexico-guns-jail/8636079/
Honestly the same thing as Fistful. Honest curiosity. Short of taking my rifle and booking it off base instead of turning it in to the armory immediately a FX, I can't see how that would be possible.
OK, I am going to (ONE LAST TIME AND I WILL USE WHATEVER "VOICE" I DANG WELL CHOOSE) try to clear up one thinmg.
I am aware of the case of the marine who had his own firearm(s) in his vehicle and got messed up at an intersection leading into Mexico and turned himself in, and wound up in a prison, to be released later.
I was
NOT refering to that incident.
I was refering to an incident even further back. I do not recall how he wound up with his service rifle but I think he was on duty and possibly on some type of military exercise (which might 'splain the presence of his issue M-4, as opposed to say, a Bushmaster he bought at a local Academy Sports.
Somehow he becomes separated from his squad/platoon/unit/USMC/Boy scouts/girl scouts (what-the-hell-ever he was) and wound up on the wrong side of the U.S. Mexico border.... a dim memory suggests Texas/Mexico ...but I could be wrong. THIS guy was NOT driving a car. Or a SUV. Or even a tobogan.
Or even a little red wagon.