Mexican Criminals Get Their Guns in America

[billbuckhead]

Mexican Criminals Get Their Guns in America

Canadian officials have blamed the United States for providing easy access to guns for their criminals. Yesterday, we told you about Jamaican police tracking a gun problem to our great nation. And now, Mexican officials say that armed robbers in our neighbor to the south are getting their guns here as well.

In mid-November, Mexican police Officer Alan Rodriguez caught a pair of armed bandits who had just assaulted a group of immigrants.

The assault took place in Sasabe, in Sonora, but the .38- and .22-caliber guns, as with most weapons used by border bandits, came from the United States. The two said they’d purchased them in Tucson.

Guns are largely illegal in Mexico and difficult for private citizens to attain. The application process can take years and includes an examination of a person’s “moral character” and proven need for a gun.

So criminals turn largely to the United States with its more liberal gun laws.

“It’s probably easier for some of these guys to acquire a weapon legally in the U.S. than it is to try to get one illegally in Mexico,” said U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement spokesman Russel Ahr.

Ninety percent of the illegal guns traced in Mexico come from the United States, estimated Sig Celaya of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

Arizona, Texas and California are the top source states.

Many of the guns that end up in Mexico are purchased at gun shows or pawn shops where there are no waiting periods, said Celaya. Criminals, or others not legally able to buy guns, often get them through “straw purchases” where someone else legally purchases the weapon and passes it along.
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Kind of ironic that reichwingers are so concerned with terrorism coming in from Canada and Mexico, when the reality is that America is polluting it's good neighbors with weapons.

Now here's a story about American guns helping dangerous guns in Jamaica. Also from Gun Guys
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Jamaican Police Seek Gun Dealer in the US

Policemen in Jamaica seized a shipment of twenty high powered assault weapons and machine guns. You get three guesses as to where they came from, and the first two don’t count.

The police claimed yesterday to have identified the person who, in November, shipped 20 high-powered guns (shown here) to Jamaica intended for Spanish Town’s Clansman gang, and said they have asked the Americans to help them track down and apprehend the criminal.

“We have identified the exporter of these illegal guns,” said Sergeant Steve Brown, spokesman for the police drug and gang-busting task force, Operation Kingfish. “He is a Jamaican and a high-ranking member of the Clansman gang who is living in the United States, and we have requested our law enforcement colleagues there to assist us in nabbing him.”

By more than four times over, the United States is the number one exporter of weapons in the world, and that’s just the legal side. This guy isn’t even a United States citizen, but he’s a big fish in the criminal world, and he came here to get his guns. That’s a clear sign that our guns laws need tightening. We’re proud of our country, and we’d love it for the USA to be number one in a lot of things around the world, but weapons exporting definitely isn’t one of them.
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[ThomWV]

1. So Do American Criminals

And if the criminals in question are in the east the gun probably came from Virginia.

[PDJane]

2. and Canada has a problem

with guns coming across the border, too, which is just one of those things.

If you ask me........which no one did........BC bud goes that way and guns come this way. It's not a fair exchange, eh?

[RagingInMiami]

3. And weed comes in from Mexico as well

Not exactly green bud but cheap and potent