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So? Next question is how many of them were from their own government agencies after being purchased from the United States?
U.S. and Mexican law enforcement officials also noted a new complicating factor in efforts to fight firearms trafficking is that weapons parts are being transported to Mexico to be later assembled into finished firearms, an activity that is much harder to track.
Again, "Of firearms that are traced by ATF." On a quick skim, I couldn't find the percent of firearms that were seized by Mexican authorities in busts related to drug trafficking and subsequently submitted to ATF for tracing. I can imagine they wouldn't bother if it didn't look like the firearm was either manufactured in or originally imported to the US.
Again, "Of firearms that are traced by ATF." On a quick skim, I couldn't find the percent of firearms that were seized by Mexican authorities in busts related to drug trafficking and subsequently submitted to ATF for tracing. I can imagine they wouldn't bother if it didn't look like the firearm was either manufactured in or originally imported to the US.
NPR said:The figure, based on data from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, represents about 70 percent of the 104,850 firearms seized by Mexican authorities that were also submitted to U.S. authorities for tracing.
MEXICO CITY — Seeking to ease a cross-border relationship strained by drug trafficking, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton arrived here Wednesday and offered the clearest acknowledgment yet from an Obama administration official of the role the United States plays in the violent narcotics trade in Mexico.
“Our insatiable demand for illegal drugs fuels the drug trade,” Mrs. Clinton said, using unusually blunt language. “Our inability to prevent weapons from being illegally smuggled across the border to arm these criminals causes the deaths of police officers, soldiers and civilians.”
From https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/09MEXICO3114_a.html
Comment. Claims by Mexican and U.S. officials that upwards of 90 percent of illegal recovered weapons can be traced back to the U.S. is based on an incomplete survey of confiscated weapons. In point of fact, without wider access to the weapons seized in Mexico, we really have no way of verifying these numbers. Joint efforts to develop intelligence that can serve the impetus for investigations and prosecutions of individuals or companies that market firearms to the cartels, will require Mexican and USG law enforcement agencies to share essential crime scene forensic information on a real time basis. Post law enforcement agencies will continue to work closely with their Mexican counterparts to break down institutional divisions and facilitate more information sharing on arms trafficking cases both among the Mexican agencies and with U.S. partners. . . . .