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Originally Posted by Calgaryborn

That was long ago debunked. 95% of the firearms turned over to American authorities for tracing purposes turn out to be American in origin. Mexico doesn't turn over weapons that they don't assume came from America.

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Originally Posted by Calgaryborn

I'll bet most of those weapons that turn out to be American are hand guns, as well. They're easy to smuggle both ways. The automatic weapons come from suppiers like China that will sell to anyone.

In fact, the evidence appears to suggest that the majority of those weapons are semi-automatic rifles.

Gun trafficking to Mexico has grown drastically worse in recent years, with the number of firearms trafficked to Mexico increasing from 2,000 in 2007 to 5,000 in 2009.[3] The increasing number of firearms smuggled across the U.S.-Mexico border aggravates the already extremely high levels of violence in the country, which has suffered 36,000 drug-related deaths in the past four years alone.[4] The majority of these contraband weapons are semiautomatic rifles—AK-47s in particular—which are much more sophisticated than the basic weapons used by the Mexican police. A report conducted by the U.S. General Accountability Office (GAO) found that the Mexican police are encountering weapons that are “increasingly more powerful and lethal.”[5]

The link between weak American gun laws and gun trafficking is particularly revealing when one examines the recent increase in the number of AK-47s and semiautomatic rifles found in Mexico. As stated previously, the GAO reported that these weapons have become increasingly common in Mexico. Notably, in 2004, the U.S. Congress removed a ban on the consumer purchase of assault rifles, which made it easier to acquire these weapons. While it is impossible to show that this law has directly impacted the trafficking of assault weapons, the recent spread of assault rifles into Mexico and the increase in violence crime since the ban was lifted do not seem to be purely coincidental.

SOURCE: http://www.coha.org/mexican-drug-vio...d-by-u-s-guns/