The guerrillas had dug out a large basement room beneath a bam in Moron, a village 30 miles from the capital dty. Among the 25 terrorists arrested were natives of Chile, Bolivia, and Uruguay. The rest were members of the outlawed People's Revolutionary Army of Argentina. Among the 25 arrested were 15 women, who were working to produce small arms and automatic weapons. According to noted firearms expert Thomas Swearengen, USMC (Ret.), the Beretta selective-fire mode 951R is a prized possession among Italian terrorists. He also reports that some of these outlaws have converted standard 951 pistols to the fully automatic function. Both the standard 951R and the converted models were reportedly used in most kneecapping attacks and assassinations in that country for the past 20 years. When I was in Guatemala in 1986, 1 saw a local army intelligence report about a cache of stolen guerrilla weapons recovered near the village of Quiche. Although most were stolen from the Guatemalan army, one of the M16s had been stolen from an American National Guard armory in Texas, while another had been left behind in Vietnam. There were also two large fabricated shotguns which fired homemade 4-gauge shells. An American military adviser who showed me the report told me that he wanted the local army to arm some of the campesinos so they'd have protection against these roving bandits as well as the guerrillas. The Guatemalan government refused. He laughed at the memory, then said to me, 'What's that tell you about the government here when they're afraid to give guns to their own people?" He added that while he had no time for the philosophy of the Sandinista government in Nicaragua, they had at least armed their citizens because everyone belonged to the militia, and the government trusted its citizens. 'The Guats won't arm their campesinos It's a dictatorship. So the locals armed themselves," he said. 'One man makes 10 barrels for these crude, single-shot 12-gauge guns