ATF: Two-Thirds of Guns Recovered in Mexico From U.S.
About two-thirds of the weapons recovered by Mexican authorities since 2007 and submitted to U.S. law enforcement for tracing had origins in the United States, according to data released today by the U.S. Department of Justice.
An estimated 68,000 of the more than 99,000 weapons submitted came from the U.S., according to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. The weapons were either manufactured in this country or were legally imported here and then smuggled into Mexico.
“Since 2007, trace data shows a trend in recovered and submitted crime guns from Mexico shifting from ...
Comments (18)
Emm Fritz via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Any one ask Eric Holder about it????
Susan Flores via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Illegal pawn shops or black market in Houston if not stolen from real legal owners. hope the gun fairs are more selective.
Mike Openshaw via Texas Tribune on Facebook
When DOJ was DEMANDING they NOT be selective for Fast and Furious, is this ANY surprise??
Tim ThèRockstâr via Texas Tribune on Facebook
An we believe these liars why?
Mary Bess Whidden via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Surprise.
Larry Arnold
Of course they're ONLY submitting the guns that are marked as going through the U.S. And not all of them. The guns the U.S. government sold or gave to the Mexican government, that then leaked to the cartels won't be on the list. Neither will full-auto rifles, machineguns, grenade launchers, and so forth the U.S. sold or gave to South American countries, and are now showing up in the cartels. Then there are the guns that came from Russia, China, and all the other countries that supply the global black market.
The idea that Mexican drug cartels, who control the black market and can get all the real military weapons they want illegally are buying most of their guns from U.S. gun stores fails the giggle test.
Zach Lindsey via Texas Tribune on Facebook
thanks for the story, julian
Zach Lindsey via Texas Tribune on Facebook
People ask Holder about it all the time. His answer ... "I was unaware of anything the government did at any point more than 10 minutes ago."
Cris Sleightholm
SURPRISE!!!
Ian Mercer via Texas Tribune on Facebook
The GAO report actually says that 2/3 of guns succesfully traced come from the US. They don't attempt to trace most guns, they cannot trace ones without serial numbers (all guns produced in the US since 1968 are serialized). Also, on average these guns are 14 years old which puts them right in the center of the Clinton era Assault Weapons Ban.
The cartels are fond of full auto weapons, not the semi autos that are available to the General public in the USA.
Joe Estep via Texas Tribune on Facebook
I live in Mexico. The guns they show on the news are not US guns. They are mostly Chinese AK knock offs.
Anya Khan
Let's see. Guns are made in the US. The US borders Mexico. So why is it a stretch that most of the guns are from the US? Under Sec Holder, guns were sent into the US. What is more important, is that Sec Holder has done NOTHING to apprehend the killers of Jaime Zapata.
gypsy314 ne
And Obama and holder sent most of them there to try and cause problems for the rights of Americans to own guns but they screwed that up and besides there would be a lot of blood spilled if someone was to try and take guns from Americans. NO way in hell is that going to happen.
Mike Snyder
It only seems logical that the largest arms manufacturer in the world would have more than just a "trickle down effect" with help from the NRA and other lobby-controlled branches of government. Unrestricted "free trade" should allow anyone to buy as many weapons as they desire without having to worry about a Waco-like scenario. They should be available in vending machines, too, with ammunition in every box of Cheerios. What more do Americans want? Among other things automatic weapons, silencers, and night-vision scopes.
It seems to me we're over the top on this one. Not only are we incapable of settling our differences amicably, we have become so small that we now require a firearm to make us bigger. With deadly weapons so readily available here, and highly illegal in Mexico, buyers cross over where getting guns is so easy it's almost like buying them from a vending machine. Just how do the congressional recipients of large NRA campaign contributions view this situation, and what do they want to do about it? Ask, and listen to a verbal tap dance through the stables.
Adele Roberson
Silly comments regarding Eric Holder... etc. yak yak and more yak.
Simpletons making simple minded comments. about US guns found in Mexico.
The NRA benfits from billions of dollars selling guns to gun runners who supply them to drug
cartels in Mexico.
For about twenty years now this business has been flourishing. Mostly in the South.
And it will continue to flourish because, in the South, simpletons will continue to offer their comments. Only comments. That is all they offer.
Another 99%
2/3 of the guns in Mexico, 40,000 deaths, have nothing to do with Holder, except he is trying to stop the slaughter. Concerned about the exporting of Murder, talk to the NRA, Rick“Machine Gun”Perry, and your neighborhood mass murder gun stores, in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona.
Unbelievable that senseless guns, has more meaning in life, than a human being, whether its children, women, police officers, soldiers. Thou shall not kill,The Ten Commandments, the Bible, has no meaning to these GunFreaks. Is it fair to call them Gun Devils?
Paraniod people, don't need guns, they need a doctor.
KS Huffman
This is an illegal alien problem caused by the ATF supply of arms to them, and the Feds not doing anything to stop the illegal aliens from coming in, in fact, now they call you a racist if you even try to. So the ATF makes up the numbers, and then Hillary can say the the UN gun ban should be used in the US?
KS Huffman
What do you bet the Feds who are stopping the M1 Garand from coming back home to the US will end up selling them to the neighbors to the south?