Trial Of H&K Officials Over Illegal Gun Shipments To Mexico Begins

By Tom Knighton

Anti-gun jihadists like to pretend that guns being used in Mexico come from the United States. They use the violence in Mexico to justify additional curtailments of our constitutionally protected rights.

However, let’s be realistic here. Guns end up in Mexico from all sorts of places. One example can be found in a German trial of Heckler & Koch officials who (allegedly) illegal shipped guns to Mexico.

A German court Tuesday put on trial six former employees of gun maker Heckler & Koch over thousands of assault rifles that were allegedly exported illegally to violence-torn Mexican states.

Human rights activists, dozens of whom protested outside the Stuttgart court, charge that G36 automatic rifles have been used in abuses including the 2014 disappearance and suspected massacre of 43 Mexican students.

In the dock are two former H&K directors, two former sales executives, one former sales staff and a former Mexico representative.

The six defendants, aged between 54 and 77, face maximum jail terms of up to five years if found guilty, and the court could also fine the company based in Oberndorf am Neckar, a major centre of the German weapons industry.

Germany is one of the world’s top five arms exporters, along with …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

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