No one is more pro-gun than I am. But to think that arms manufactures would not conceivably take advantage of an armed conflict to make a profit ignores reality and history. It speaks to the nature of what pres Eisenhower said of the possible threat of the military industrial complex. All I would point out is that our RIGHT to purchase and bear their products is absolute, but it still isn't cool that American companies may be arming the very people that could do us grave harm. I've read that there are some hundreds or thousands of gun shops that sit right along the Mexico border. Shouldn't they make the guns for the good guys and not the bad guys?
It is up to state and federal officials to enforce legal gun sales, one must have a federal license to sell guns and if caught violating rules will lose his license and face time in federal prison. That isn't the problem, and I've not read either that there are hundreds of thousands of gun shops near the border, where did you get that??
Calderon, Obama, Holder and Clinton are lying through their teeth and they know it!!
In the first place if we didn't have literally millions of illegal aliens running around lose in America they couldn't possibly be illegally purchasing weapons and smuggling them to Mexico, which is Mexico's problem anyway, if they don't want things being smuggled into Mexico, then guard their border.
The fact is, only 17 percent of guns found at Mexican crime scenes have been traced to the U.S.
Whats true, an ATF spokeswoman told FOXNews.com, in a clarification of the statistic used by her own agencys assistant director, is that over 90 percent of the traced firearms originate from the U.S.
But a large percentage of the guns recovered in Mexico do not get sent back to the U.S. for tracing, because it is
obvious from their markings that they do not come from the U.S.
Not every weapon seized in Mexico has a serial number on it that would make it traceable, and the U.S. effort to trace weapons really only extends to weapons that have been in the U.S. market, Matt Allen, special agent of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), told FOX News.
In 2007-2008, according to ATF Special Agent William Newell, Mexico submitted 11,000 guns to the ATF for tracing. Close to 6,000 were successfully traced and of those, 90 percent 5,114 to be exact, according to testimony in Congress by William Hoover were found to have come from the U.S.
But in those same two years, according to the Mexican government,
29,000 guns were recovered at crime scenes.
In other words,
68 percent of the guns that were recovered were never submitted for tracing. And when you weed out the roughly 6,000 guns that could not be traced from the remaining 32 percent, it means
83 percent of the guns found at crime scenes in Mexico could not be traced to the U.S.
So, if not from the U.S., where do they come from? There are a variety of sources:
The Black Market. Mexico is a virtual arms bazaar, with fragmentation grenades from South Korea, AK-47s from China, and shoulder-fired rocket launchers from Spain, Israel and former Soviet bloc manufacturers.
Russian crime organizations. Interpol says Russian Mafia groups such as Poldolskaya and Moscow-based Solntsevskaya are actively trafficking drugs and arms in Mexico.
- South America. During the late 1990s, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) established a clandestine arms smuggling and drug trafficking partnership with the Tijuana cartel, according to the Federal Research Division report from the Library of Congress. (Chavez recently purchased 250,000 AK-47s from Russia)
Asia. According to a 2006 Amnesty International Report, China has provided arms to countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Chinese assault weapons and Korean explosives have been recovered in Mexico.
The Mexican Army. More than 150,000 soldiers deserted in the last six years, according to Mexican Congressman Robert Badillo. Many took their weapons with them, including the standard issue M-16 assault rifle made in Belgium.
Guatemala. U.S. intelligence agencies say traffickers move immigrants, stolen cars, guns and drugs, including most of Americas cocaine, along the porous Mexican-Guatemalan border. On March 27, La Hora, a Guatemalan newspaper, reported that police seized 500 grenades and a load of AK-47s on the border. Police say the cache was transported by a Mexican drug cartel operating out of Ixcan, a border town.
-- No doubt Cuba would be the source of many of the weapons.
Question; if stringent gun control laws have been in place for a long time in Mexico and 22,000 people have been killed in recent drug war violence do you think such stringent gun laws would work in America??
HELL NO, before long only the criminals would be armed and the US Supreme Court has ruled that police forces
ARE NOT responsible for protecting individual citizens.
An armed society is a polite society, look at the cities in America where they have strict gun laws such as Chicago where it is more dangerous to live than Iraq and Afghanistan.
Criminals will find some way to aquire weapons, denying law abiding citizens their constitutional gun ownership rights isn't the answer. :no:
Flashback, nearly ten years ago.
The Mexican invasion of the United States of America
