Prosecutors: US-Mexico gun smuggling is challenge

By GI Analyst • on December 3, 2009

“State prosecutors meeting at a conference Dec. 2 said the illegal flow of guns from the United States to Mexican drug cartels poses one of the biggest challenges in trying to reduce violence along America’s southern border.

Many guns used by drug cartels in gun-restrictive Mexico come from the United States. The guns are typically bought through straw buyers and smuggled across the border to be used against the Mexican government in its war against the cartels.”

(Arizona Capitol Times » Blog Archive » Prosecutors: US-Mexico gun smuggling is challenge)


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