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You can read the <broken link removed> . Basically, a story about how Mexico can't seem to trace any of the weapons it seizes because of "computer problems".
I have no doubt that some guns from the U.S. are finding their way into Mexico. But, when there's literally a river of illegal drugs flowing through the country, it's just as likely they are coming from elsewhere. There's also the prospect that Mexican Govt.-owned guns are finding their way into the hands of narco-thugs.
Mexico has some of the strictest gun laws in the world. It is extremely difficult for citizens to legally buy or possess pistols or rifles. The country has just one gun store, operated by the military.
And yet Mexico is awash in weapons, from the ubiquitous 9 mm handguns found in the glove box of every thug in Mexico to .50-caliber sniper rifles capable of downing a helicopter. Both guns are sold legally in the United States and are easily obtainable in the worldwide black market in arms. More than 28,000 Mexicans have died in drug violence in the past four years.
According to U.S. agents working here, Mexican prosecutors have not made a single major arms-trafficking case.
The Mexican government often says that 90 percent of the weapons it confiscates come from the United States. In 2009 testimony before Congress, the ATF director gave that same figure.
But gun lobbyists, arms manufacturers and some members of Congress question that, and U.S. law-enforcement agents and officials who have seen the trace results also say the raw numbers do not support the 90 percent figure.
I have no doubt that some guns from the U.S. are finding their way into Mexico. But, when there's literally a river of illegal drugs flowing through the country, it's just as likely they are coming from elsewhere. There's also the prospect that Mexican Govt.-owned guns are finding their way into the hands of narco-thugs.