The vast majority of illegal firearms in Mexico have been smuggled from the world's largest gun market: the U.S. Researchers estimate that more than 750,000 guns were purchased in the U.S. between 2010 and 2012 to be smuggled into Mexico.
were purchased in the United States between 2010 and 2012 to be smuggled into Mexico.
The dealer, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said he buys pistols and revolvers on the black market and resells them for up to $800. High-powered rifles such as AK-47s fetch up to $2,500.The dealer said he got swept up in gang life as a teenager in the 1990s. Back then, people fought with knives or fists. “Now it’s bullets,” he said.He picked up a shiny Smith & Wesson pistol manufactured in Massachusetts that he said had been smuggled from the United States.
Crime scene investigators gather evidence at the scene where a man was shot in the head in Acapulco, Guerrero, on April 26. A view of downtown Acapulco. For years, Acapulco has been one of Mexico’s most violent cities, with 874 homicide cases opened in 2018, up slightly from the year before. U.S. exports of firearms, ammunition, explosives and gun parts to Mexico rose to roughly $40 million a year, according to the advocacy group Stop U.S. Arms to Mexico. The Mexican army also vastly increased its own production of firearms.
By 2012, the year Calderon left office, he was begging the U.S. to reinstate the assault weapons ban.that year to the U.S. Congress. “Instead, thousands are ending up in the hands of criminals.”Calderon was frustrated, too, with a botched U.S. law enforcement operation dubbedthat allowed weapons from the U.S. to pass into the hands of suspected gun smugglers in an attempt to identify top cartel members in Mexico.
Vigilante group leaders Ernesto Gallardo Grande, left, and Eusebio Ceveriano Rodriguez in Barra Vieja, Acapulco. Alanis said his community police group purchases weapons and bullets from members of Mexico’s armed forces. He said he pays a former marine to train his men how to shoot.
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