Current Events > 70% of guns recovered in Mexico come from the US

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https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-link-between-americas-lax-gun-laws-and-the-violence-that-fuels-immigration

The ready availability of guns in America is often discussed as a domestic-policy matter. But it is an international issue, too. Every year, guns that were initially sold in the U.S. are used in thousands of crimes in Canada, Central America, and the Caribbean, according to the Center for American Progress. Its estimated that some two hundred thousand American guns are smuggled across the southern border each year. The region thats been hit the hardest is Central America, where gun laws are relatively strict yet homicide rates are among the highest on earth. Gang wars, massive state corruption, and murderous criminal syndicates are to blame for the violence, but American firepower facilitates it. Unlike other forms of contraband, American weapons dont just pass through Central America but engulf it in storms of violence, Mark Ungar, a political-science professor at Brooklyn College and an expert in the regions gun violence, told me. This violence, in turn, has fuelled a refugee crisis. Since 2014, more than a hundred and fifty thousand unaccompanied immigrant children from countries in the region have fled to the U.S. seeking some form of asylum.

Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras do not have substantial gun industries of their own. The governments of these countries rely on imports from abroad to supply their militaries and security forces. Most of the guns otherwise in circulation on the street are illegal and unregisteredand many come from sellers in the United States. Seventy per cent of guns recovered by authorities in Mexico, for instance, were originally sold in the U.S.most of them in Texas, California, and Arizona, according to a Government Accountability Office report. Forty-nine per cent of weapons recovered in El Salvador came from the U.S., compared to forty-six per cent in Honduras and twenty-nine per cent in Guatemala. Harry Penate, an American adviser to the A.T.F. based in San Salvador, told The New Republic, I feel as bad about guns going into Central America and Mexico as good, hard-working Colombians feel about cocaine going into the U.S. There are at least seven hundred licensed gun dealers along the U.S.-Mexico border, and the illegal firearms trade in Mexico generates more than a hundred million dollars in annual revenue for U.S. gun makers.

To get guns across the border, traffickers often disassemble the weapons and stash them, in pieces, in other objects like microwaves, toys, or appliances. Criminal syndicates are usually behind the larger transactions. Crumpler, the man from Florida, sold his guns to a group of undocumented Hondurans living in Orlando, who received tens of thousands of dollars through wire transfers originating in Honduras to pay for the weapons. One of Crumplers buyers told him that, as he later put it, I was dealing with . . . the two largest gun-dealing families in Honduras. Other times, criminals carry weapons south in backpacks. Sometimes there are specific, small-scale missions that the gang members arrange to buy the guns easily in the U.S., and then travel back home, through Mexico, with them, Carlos Garca, an expert in the Salvadoran-American gang MS-13, told me. Weapons preferences vary. In Mexico, semiautomatic rifles are in high demandhalf of the guns from the U.S. recovered in the country are long guns, of the AR-15 or AK-47 variety. Central American gangsters like 9-millimetre handguns. A popular purchase from Crumplers trove was a semiautomatic pistol known, in the region, as a matapolicas, or cop killer, because it can fire armor-piercing bullets.

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So what
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Its almost as if they're made here
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Is it still the US government selling the cartels these weapons, like it turned out to be a decade ago when the left last tried to play this angle?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATF_gunwalking_scandal
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Forlorn_Ass posted...

So what

America's gun obsession is indirectly contributing to Mexico's drug wars (which in turn fuels illegal immigration to the US).

Ammonitida posted...

Forlorn_Ass posted...

So what

America's gun obsession is indirectly contributing to Mexico's drug wars (which in turn fuels illegal immigration to the US).

Thats okay
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Forlorn_Ass posted...

Ammonitida posted...

Forlorn_Ass posted...

So what

America's gun obsession is indirectly contributing to Mexico's drug wars (which in turn fuels illegal immigration to the US).

Thats okay

Low effort trolling

Mexico needs a wall.

EDIT: I mean a second wall. They already have a wall on their southern border to keep illegals out.
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only cops should have guns
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Ammonitida posted...

Forlorn_Ass posted...

So what

America's gun obsession is indirectly contributing to Mexico's drug wars (which in turn fuels illegal immigration to the US).

Pretty sure it's American's obsession with DRUGS that's the bigger variable in the equation.
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They all say "Stark Technologies" on them
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Remember when Obama was selling guns to the Cartels lolololol

Youngster_Joey_ posted...

Remember when Obama was selling guns to the Cartels lolololol

and then sealed all documents related to it via executive privilege and refused to allow any investigations to occur

hope and change
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Good ole US showing that Mexico needs the wall, not us.
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maybe mexico should just introduce new gun laws
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Sayoria posted...

Good ole US showing that Mexico needs the wall, not us.

Will Mexico finally pay for the wall??

Ammonitida posted...

Forlorn_Ass posted...

So what

America's gun obsession is indirectly contributing to Mexico's drug wars (which in turn fuels illegal immigration to the US).

Maybe those countries should implement draconian gun control laws, and America should outlaw smuggling.

Oh, wait...
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Youngster_Joey_ posted...

Remember when Obama was selling guns to the Cartels lolololol

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