Posted June 9, 2015 2:00 pm by Comments

By Robert Farago

Weapons sales to Mexico (courtesy borderlandbeat.com)

Mexico has purchased more than $1.15 billion in military equipment from the United States over the past 12 months. As the following article [via borderlandbeat.com] reports, “These sales do not include guns and ammunition. In 2014, the U.S. legally transferred more than 28,000 firearms to Mexico, most of them military rifles, at a value of $21.6 million. The year saw the most firearms sales in dollars of the 15 years that the U.S. Census Bureau has kept data.” Accountability? You must be joking. In fact, over the last ten years . . .

thousands of U.S.-made rifles have “seeped” from the Mexican military to the drug cartels. More than 55k military-trained personal defected to the cartels. Thousands more fully-automatic firearms simply go walkies from military and police arsenals.

Not to mention the fact that the Mexican drug cartels have billions of dollars to spend on the tens of thousands of guns that the U.S. has sold or “donated” to South American countries over the last few decades. Or guns imported from China, Europe and elsewhere.

When confiscated by the Mexican military, none of these official U.S. sales rifles are submitted to the ATF for trace. Why would …read more

Source:: Truth About Guns

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