“Though it gets far less attention than undocumented immigration or drug smuggling, running guns to Mexico is big business. According to the best estimates, gunrunners move about 250,000 guns every year.”https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/arming-mexican-cartels-inside-story-of-a-texas-gun-smuggling-ring-866836/ …
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“Lawmakers have repeatedly introduced anti-trafficking bills in Congress, only to see them torpedoed by gun-industry lobbying”
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“Until relatively recently, Mexico had one of the lowest rates of gun ownership in the world. But since 2004, when the George W. Bush administration allowed the federal ban on assault rifles to expire, a flood of military-style weapons has equipped Mexico’s criminal class”
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“Why will I buy a gun from Central America that is 40 years old, when I can go to Walmart and buy as many guns as I want, new guns, the best, with no questions asked?”
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“A 2013 University of San Diego study found that nearly half of all gun stores in the United States would go out of business were it not for the sales boost provided by the carnage in Mexico”
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“U.S. Customs and Border Protection is primarily focused on stopping drugs moving north and with seizing drug money, which the agency gets to keep”
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“There is evidence that Mexican drug-trafficking organizations actively recruit American servicemen, and several ex-soldiers have been arrested for gunrunning in recent years”
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