253,000 US Guns Smuggled to Mexico Annually

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Some 2.2 percent of all U.S. gun sales are made to smuggling rings that take firearms to Mexico, a scale of illegal trafficking that’s “much higher than widely assumed,” an academic study released Monday found.

An average of 253,000 weapons purchased in the United States head south of the border each year, according to the study by four scholars at the University of San Diego’s Trans-Border Ins ute and the Igarape Ins ute, a research center in
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Profit margins at many gun stores are razor thin, and thousands of U.S. gun vendors would go out of business without the illicit traffic to Mexico,

http://truth-out.org/news/item/15202...ly-study-finds

And you suckered, ignorant gun fellators wanted to impeach Barry for Fast and Furious?

Self defense?

water the tree?

2nd Amendment?

Don't Tread on me?

It's All About the Benjamins!

Marans!

[CosmicCowboy]

The traffic is reflected in the disproportionately high number of federally licensed firearms dealers along the U.S. side of the border, said Robert Muggah, another of the four scholars. Of the 51,300 retail gun shops in the United States that hold federal licenses, some 6,700 of them are concentrated in the four U.S. states that border Mexico, Muggah said. On average, there are more than three gun dealers for every mile of the 1,970-mile border between the countries.

The scholars said their study was the first “empirically robust” effort to “estimate the total flow of arms” heading south from the United States. The authors said they’d determined the likely traffic to Mexico by a complex statistical formula that measured how close a federally licensed dealer was to the Mexican border, then factored out likely local legal demand, based on population and income.

In other words, they just pulled a number out of their ass.

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In other words, they just pulled a number out of their ass.

... which where your head resides.

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U.S. Is Arms Bazaar for Mexican Cartels

Mexican authorities have long complained that American gun dealers are arming the cartels. This case is the most prominent prosecution of an American gun dealer since the United States promised Mexico two years ago it would clamp down on the smuggling of weapons across the border. It also offers a rare glimpse of how weapons delivered to American gun dealers are being moved into Mexico and wielded in horrific crimes.

“We had a direct pipeline from Iknadosian to the Sinaloa cartel,” said Thomas G. Mangan, a spokesman for the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in Phoenix.

Drug gangs seek out guns in the United States because the gun-control laws are far tougher in Mexico. Mexican civilians must get approval from the military to buy guns and they cannot own large-caliber rifles or high-powered pistols, which
are considered military weapons.

The ease with which Mr. Iknadosian and two other men transported weapons to Mexico over a two-year period illustrates just how difficult it is to stop the illicit trade, law enforcement officials here say.

The gun laws in the United States allow the sale of multiple military-style rifles to American citizens without reporting the sales to the government, and the Mexicans search relatively few cars and trucks going south across their border.

What is more, the sheer volume of licensed dealers — more than 6,600 along the border alone, many of them operating out of their houses — makes policing them a tall order. Currently the A.T.F. has about 200 agents assigned to the task.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/26/us...anted=all&_r=0

6600 gun "dealers" near the border!!

as they say:

Location! Location! Location!



6600 gun dealers have their heads better situated that CC's

[Wild Cobra]

Shazbot, don't blame the gun dealers. Homeland security is buying 1.6 billion rounds of ammunition. I'll bet they are following those guns. You can probably thank president Obombalot.

[CosmicCowboy]

Not only did they pull a number out of their ass, it stinks to high heavens.

Just simple math blows their "complicated formula" all to .

Based on the 2010 census the combined population of California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas is 72,739,429 out of a total 50 state population of 313,281,717, or 23.21% of the total US population.

Based on the articles numbers that there are 6700 gun dealers in the same 4 states and 51,700 gun dealers in the US, those 4 border states account for only 13.06% of the gun dealers in the US.

Just more of the typical stinky crap boutox vomits out in here.

[CosmicCowboy]

Apparently Bou isn't very good at math. The 4 border states in question have 23.21% of the US population and only 13.06% of the US gun dealers.

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Apparently, CC is just another right-winger who never met a fact he wouldn't deny.

[CosmicCowboy]

Apparently, CC is just another right-winger who never met a fact he wouldn't deny.

Do the math, for brains.

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you DENY the fact that the 6600 dealers are NEAR THE US BORDER, which is exactly NOT WHERE THE VAST MAJORITY of those ENTIRE STATES LIVES.

your math is perverted, as is your denial.

[CosmicCowboy]

you DENY the fact that the 6600 dealers are NEAR THE US BORDER, which is exactly NOT WHERE THE VAST MAJORITY of those ENTIRE STATES LIVES.

your math is perverted, as is your denial.

No they aren't for brains. Read your own damn article. That is the total gun dealers in the 4 states.

[CosmicCowboy]

I even clipped the quote from the article for you in post #2. You really ARE a dumb mother er.

[Wild Cobra]

I think we sould just conclude that there is more to Fast and Furious than we know about.

Again... 1.6 billion rounds of ammo...

[mavs>spurs]

Mexico, when they stop smuggling drugs we will stop smuggling guns

[TeyshaBlue]

lol truthout
lol propoganda
lol boutons

[DisAsTerBot]

that's some ty border patrol imo

[CosmicCowboy]

lol truthout
lol propoganda
lol boutons

No . This one was even worse than the normal boo drags in here. He ran like a scared little when I started to debunk it.

[Bender]

just what we need, another 'gun fellator' thread

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gun fellators!

what is your estimate of guns smuggled over the southern border? I'm sure NRA says their beloved dealers NEVER sell to straw buyers and always do thorough b/g checks.

[TeyshaBlue]

lol goal post move
lol truthout fellator

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TB

so you don't have a answer?

[TeyshaBlue]

TB

so you don't have a answer?

You post another ty, no content blog.....get slapped for it...and now you're crying to me for help?
ing pathetic.

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You post another ty, no content blog.....get slapped for it...and now you're crying to me for help?
ing pathetic.

the claim is US dealers selling 250K guns. your response is

[CosmicCowboy]

You post another ty, no content blog.....get slapped for it...and now you're crying to me for help?
ing pathetic.

[CosmicCowboy]

Of course some guns cross the border. We have open borders with Mexico. If Mexico wants to close the border to prevent guns from crossing they are free to do so.