AP Enterprise: US push not halting guns to Mexico

[jpak]

http://www.blueridgenow.com/article/20110305/APN/1103050984

Federal agents are barely able to slow the river of American guns flowing into Mexico.

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The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives reported seizing 2,633 guns in 2009 at its offices in the four southwestern border states, the most recent figures available, but those were captured before making it into border traffic - and even if they had, they would have amounted to a little more than a day's worth that get through.

A November 2008 study by The Brookings Institution, a Washington-based think tank, stated that 2,000 American guns are smuggled into Mexico each day. Compiled by a commission including ex-Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo and Thomas Pickering, a former ambassador to Russia and a senior State Department official during the administration of President Bill Clinton, the report was the last comprehensive estimate on the subject, though it did not include information on how that figure was reached.

Efforts to halt ammunition have been more successful. Outbound border inspections seized 93,141 rounds in the last fiscal year, more than four times the amount seized during the previous year.

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[AnOhioan]

1. Ah yes,,,,the United States' best export.....guns and weapons....

At least one segment of the economy is going gangbusters

[X_Digger]

2. That doesn't even pass the smell test.

That would be 730,000 guns a year- more than the total that are sold in all the border states combined.

the report was the last comprehensive estimate on the subject, though it did not include information on how that figure was reached.

Wild-assed guess?

[Katya Mullethov]

3. Daily dose of Irony

"A very very violent viscous gang of thugs "
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCRDHuwc_7I
A gang that can burn you down , and doze you in .

[WatsonT]

4. The same ATF that got caught smuggling guns in to Mexico?

I wonder why they were unable to stop the illegally smuggling of guns in to Mexico?

It makes no sense.

:eyes:

[lawodevolution]

5. Time for Mexico to liberalize its gun laws

[Katya Mullethov]

6. Mexico gets wind of Gunrunner

"""Mexico's Ministry of Foreign Affairs is asking the U.S. government for details about ATF's "Fast and Furious" operations.

As our CBS News Investigation has revealed, "Fast and Furious" was a secret program under which, sources say, ATF purposely allowed thousands of assault rifles and other weapons from the U.S. into the hands of drug cartels in Mexico. Insiders call it letting the guns "walk."""'

[rl6214]

7. "deral agents are barely able to slow the river of American guns flowing into Mexico."

Because THEY are sending them in.

Even YOU can't be that dense.

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