[Calgaryborn]

Originally Posted by Makarov

Source?




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





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

I looked up your source and I do find it questionable being as it is an anti-gun lobby. But in any case, look at what it says: According to them a full 80% of guns confiscated in Mexico in 2010 were from the USA. That has got to be a mistake. Possibly 80% of the guns turned over to US law enforcement for tracing turns out to be American made. How often does one make that mistake before it is no longer a mistake but rather intentional misreputation?

Your article in the background section suggests that in 2007 two thousand weapons were smuggled into Mexico and in 2009 that number was up to five thousand firearms. In the same section it claims that the Mexican authorities confiscated 9 632 weapons in 2007 and 32 332 in 2009. That means that in 2007 a little under 21% were American weapons and in 2009 a little over 15% were from our of the States.

I don't have any stats for the number of weapons the US has seized that turn out to be from out of country. Both the Obama administration and the Mexican government are not too interested in that. I could find Stats on the number on illegal aliens that commit murder in the United States.

If approx. 80 to 85% of weapons used by the drug cartels originate outside of the United States than it would be reasonable to conclude that 80 to 85% of the weapons they bring the drugs in with are from outside of the States.

Getting back to my original point. Securing the border is the first step in any plan to control guns. It needs to be done long before you ask anything of your own citizens.