Gun Policy News
America Subsidises Gun Running to Mexico, Armed Violence, Drug Wars
6 March 2009
San Diego Union-Tribune (California), Opinion
It's time for the American people to stop living in a state of denial and get serious about stopping gun shipments into Mexico.
Mexico's ambassador to the United States, Arturo Sarukhan, has noted that as many as 2,000 weapons enter Mexico from the U.S. every day — most of them through Texas and Arizona, and many of them are purchased legally at gun shows and gun stores. Many of the transactions come in "straw purchases," where drug traffickers use Americans —... (GunPolicy.org)