90% of Mexico's guns come from the U.S. posted 6/23/2009 11:13:51 AM | 5 kudos what's this?     report abuse

thenewguy295

As the drug war rages in Mexico producing thousands of deaths a year, we are being told that 90% of Mexico's guns are smuggled in from the U.S. This is the "statistic" being thrown around in the media and by certain members of our government. I have a problem with this statement though.
First is with the people making or reporting the statement, they are no supporters of your second amendment rights. It's a little like believing the Nazis claims to support and protect Jewish rights, why would I take their word for it with no supporting evidence.

Usually they show footage of all the weapons 'bought at gunshows' here in the U.S., the problem with those is that grenades, machine guns, anti-aircraft and anti-tank rockets are illegal in the states, even at a gunshow, most aren't even manufactured here. They can be obtained illegally on the international arms market though or, more likely LEGALLY! And here is the other main problem I have with the statement.

These drug cartels are bringing in billions of dollars a year and spending hundreds of millions on their security. They are bribing Mexican politicians, generals, judges, police and so on. So what is stopping them from getting an end user certificate? An end user certificate is a statement by a government seeking to buy arms and munitions on the international market, that they are the end user, that the arms will not be re-sold or transferred to a third party. With all of the money being thrown around it wouldn't be hard for the cartels to get one and many Nations will sell these arms even without the certificate. (Kuwait, Dubai, Venezuela, North Korea, Somalia, Ethiopia, former parts of the Soviet Union and Warsaw pact) Or for that matter they could simply bride a General and buy the guns from the Mexican army!

These cartels may be brutal thuggish gangsters but they are also smart business men and it's cheaper and easier to buy the guns they require in bulk on the international market. How expensive is it to come to the United States and purchase the legal semi-automatic firearms one at a time in stores and gunshows for $1,000 or more each, with a required background check for each purchase, then smuggle them back to Mexico and make the less safe, less reliable conversion to fully auto weapons? On the international market they can order thousands of newly manufactured automatic rifles for only a couple of hundred dollars per piece from the same dealers they are getting the grenades and rockets from.

It doesn't make any sense and I think we are once again being fed a line of garbage in an attempt to manipulate and control public opinion.

Kaplaw!

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