70% of Firearms Seized in Mexico Have Been Traced Back to the US PressTV
go to original January 18, 2016

How US Guns Are Flooding Mexico Illegally (TheLipTV2)

According to a report commissioned by US Democratic Representative Eliot Engel of New York, 70 percent of the guns - more than 73,000 - recovered from crime scenes in Mexico from 2009 to 2014 and traced by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), originated in the United States, fueling the ongoing war among the drug cartels and between the cartels and Mexican security forces with more than 100,000 killings in the country since 2007.

The report also details how cartel gun runners often buy weapons legally in the United States, either at gun shops, gun shows, or in private sales and smuggle them across the border.

Findings in the report show that cartels buy unassembled parts for firearms and ship them to be built across the border. US retailers do not have to report when they sell gun parts or kits and manufacturers are not required to stamp serial numbers on gun parts, leaving completed weapons untraceable.

"They are also easy to conceal," the US Government Accountability Office report notes of the gun parts, "making it more challenging for customs authorities to detect illicit shipments of such parts."

The ATF, tasked with apprehending smugglers, has long had problems with understaffing and underfunding.

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