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Why isn't the US government getting at the source of 'this' gun problem on the US Mexico border?
People have asked what should we do about the Mexican drug lords who cross over into the states and promote violence. Shouldn't we also ask why is it that US gun dealers sells weapons to Mexicans during times that Mexico has become a dangerous problem for the US?
U.S. gun dealers arming Mexican drug cartels - International Herald Tribune
U.S. gun dealers arming Mexican drug cartels
By James C. McKinley Jr.
Published: February 26, 2009
PHOENIX, Arizona: The Mexican agents who moved in on a safe house full of drug dealers last May were not prepared for the firepower that greeted them.
When the shooting was over, eight agents were dead. Among the guns the police recovered was an assault rifle traced back across the border to a dingy store here called X-Caliber Guns.
Now, the owner, George Iknadosian, will go on trial on charges that he sold scores of weapons, mostly AK-47 rifles, to smugglers who supplied a drug cartel in the western state of Sinaloa, fueling the gang warfare in which more than 6,000 Mexicans died last year.
The Mexican authorities have long complained that American gun dealers were arming the cartels. This case is the most prominent prosecution of an American gun dealer since the United States promised Mexico two years ago that it would clamp down on the smuggling of weapons across the border.
It also offers a glimpse of how weapons delivered to American gun dealers are being moved into Mexico and used in horrific crimes.
People have asked what should we do about the Mexican drug lords who cross over into the states and promote violence. Shouldn't we also ask why is it that US gun dealers sells weapons to Mexicans during times that Mexico has become a dangerous problem for the US?
U.S. gun dealers arming Mexican drug cartels - International Herald Tribune
U.S. gun dealers arming Mexican drug cartels
By James C. McKinley Jr.
Published: February 26, 2009
PHOENIX, Arizona: The Mexican agents who moved in on a safe house full of drug dealers last May were not prepared for the firepower that greeted them.
When the shooting was over, eight agents were dead. Among the guns the police recovered was an assault rifle traced back across the border to a dingy store here called X-Caliber Guns.
Now, the owner, George Iknadosian, will go on trial on charges that he sold scores of weapons, mostly AK-47 rifles, to smugglers who supplied a drug cartel in the western state of Sinaloa, fueling the gang warfare in which more than 6,000 Mexicans died last year.
The Mexican authorities have long complained that American gun dealers were arming the cartels. This case is the most prominent prosecution of an American gun dealer since the United States promised Mexico two years ago that it would clamp down on the smuggling of weapons across the border.
It also offers a glimpse of how weapons delivered to American gun dealers are being moved into Mexico and used in horrific crimes.