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'Sophisticated' Texas Gun Runners Smuggle Weapons to Mexican Cartels
8 April 2010
El Paso Times (Texas)
EL PASO,Texas - Feuding Mexican drug cartels are receiving new weapons in large shipments from the El Paso area, ATF officials said Wednesday.
It's a new trend fueled by a change in how the guns are being transported into Mexico, said Robert Champion, special agent for the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
Champion heads a field division that encompasses a large section of the Southwest, including West Texas and Oklahoma.
He said gun traffic... (GunPolicy.org)