Firearms are tightly restricted in Mexico, which only has one authorized gun dealer. Mexican citizens must pass extensive background checks to purchase firearms, and Mexican law restricts the type, caliber, and quantity of firearms available for legal purchase.
Still, cartels have flooded the nation with illegal firearms sold by U.S. gun manufacturers. The Mexican government estimated that around 200,000 U.S.-sourced firearms are smuggled into Mexico annually.
Heavily armed cartels use military-style guns and other weapons to assassinate politicians, attack the military, kill and injure judges, journalists and police, and terrorize ordinary citizens throughout Mexico. The cartels traffic fentanyl and other drugs into the U.S. and spur migration.
“For the first time, the U.S. government will work jointly to avoid the entry of guns to Mexico,” Sheinbaum said during a news conference Monday.
U.S. President Donald Trump did not acknowledge any deal related to gun trafficking, focusing instead on stationing the military along the border. The White House did not respond to questions about the agreement.
— Kelsey Reichmann in Mexico Opens Two-Front War on US Guns
Since the vast majority of firearms smuggled into Mexican by drug cartels, make the trip via illegal border crossings, Trump’s policies on securing the US/Mexico border would, by default, put a serious dent in such trafficking. Of course, that is also assuming that he also takes action to prevent certain rouge Government agencies which are, in fact, responsible for the vast majority of the aforementioned smuggling, from continuing continuing to do so.
I applaud this effort as long as Mexico holds up their end of the bargain.
But, what about Russia, China, Eastern Europe? You can’t tell me the USA is the sole source of Cartel guns.
Hmmm, so when you release Hose A from prison and let him walk into the U.S. he can buy a gun from the local MS 13 rep and walk right back into Mehico. Never saw that one coming.
Well, leftist U.S. judges did rule that illegal aliens can legally buy guns in the U.S. So, don’t tell me that didn’t help insure a flow of weapons to Mexico, I’m sure the cartels didn’t buy off those judges, though . . . . Eh? Also, last-candidate-left-standing-Sheinbaum is only in office because all of her opposition suffered “axedents” during the Mexican election cycle, so I’m not too interested in her comments about U.S. manufactured guns being the reason the cartels are well armed, either. Her party is better financed by the cartels than democrats are by USAID, and the cartels seem to be mainly armed with full-auto AKs that were NOT made by manufacturers in the U.S.
We should build a wall and staff the border with the National Guard to keep guns from crossing into Mexico.