Mike Irwin
Staff
and, as we all suspected, it's NOT what Felipe Calderon, Barak Obama, or Eric Holder is claiming.
http://www.examiner.com/x-2581-St-L...-to-source-of-drug-cartels-gunsthe-government
That's a link to a very interesting article (with accompanying articles) that shows exactly how the "95 to 100% of all guns in cartel hands come from the United States" was derived.
And as all of us suspected, those figures are GROSSLY inflated and, surprise surprise, horrifically misrepresented.
What's really amazing about all of this is that the latest information comes not from our supporters in the US, but from articles by a Mexican newspaper.
It makes for interesting reading, and it makes for some SERIOUS ammunition in dealing with people who want to reimpose the "assault weapons ban" as a means of helping the poor defenseless (incompetent?) Mexican government deal with its crime problems.
http://www.examiner.com/x-2581-St-L...-to-source-of-drug-cartels-gunsthe-government
That's a link to a very interesting article (with accompanying articles) that shows exactly how the "95 to 100% of all guns in cartel hands come from the United States" was derived.
And as all of us suspected, those figures are GROSSLY inflated and, surprise surprise, horrifically misrepresented.
What's really amazing about all of this is that the latest information comes not from our supporters in the US, but from articles by a Mexican newspaper.
It makes for interesting reading, and it makes for some SERIOUS ammunition in dealing with people who want to reimpose the "assault weapons ban" as a means of helping the poor defenseless (incompetent?) Mexican government deal with its crime problems.