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Of the 132,823 guns recovered at crime scenes in Mexico from 2009 to 2018, 70% came from the U.S.

Mexico has a single heavily regulated gun store. One.

The drugs flow north. The guns flow south. Mexico’s drug war is America’s drug war. latimes.com/world/mexico-a…
“The assassins that kill us are Mexican,” said Alanis, 40. “And the people we shoot are Mexican.”

He pointed to the words stamped on the barrel of a Colt assault rifle: “HARTFORD, CONN, U.S.A.”

“We kill each other,” he said. “And you send the bullets.” latimes.com/world/mexico-a…
It’s not just Mexico, which estimates that 2,000 guns cross the border from America each day.

As many as a quarter to half of all guns seized by police in Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador can be tranced back to the United States. From @AlexYablon: thetrace.org/2017/05/gun-tr…
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