Mexican diplomat urges U.S. to renew assault weapon ban

guns.com ^ | Aug. 24, 2016 | Chris Eger

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While speaking at a UN meeting in Switzerland, Mexico’s Foreign Minister said it was as easy to buy a gun in the U.S. as it is to purchase a “liter of milk or a box cereal.”

Foreign Minister Claudia Ruiz Massieu made the remarks to the Second Conference of States Parties to the Arms Trade Treaty of the United Nations in Geneva on Monday. She advocated for greater controls by each government on the transfer of arms as well as increased accountability.

In her speech, she held that Mexico is a peaceful nation committed to an effective, realistic and sensible arms trade regulation, holding that weapons for private use are strictly regulated and need a special permit from authorities to possess.

“But these efforts are limited by the thousands of illegal weapons who come every year to our country from our northern border where the largest producer and exporter is,” she said, without naming the United States directly.

Removing ambiguity, she went on to state that there are 23,000 licensed gun dealers in U.S. border states, contending that guns can be bought at “fairs, online and even in major supermarkets in the country,” and that it is “so easy to acquire weapons as is buying a liter of milk or a box cereal.”

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She blamed the demise of the U.S. federal assault weapon ban in 2004 in large part for Mexico’s gun violence problems..

Riiighttt.

The above AR platform is in no way an "Assault Weapon."

But...

“He Who Controls The Language Controls The Masses.”

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[Hodar]

Ohhh, that terrifying bayonet mount!!!
I is skert

[jospehm20]

Mexico can ESAD!

[nascarnation]

There’s something beautiful about that gun.

[CivilWarBrewing]

Fast & Furious.. OH WAIT:

Photo from Nice, France. Might as well ban big trucks, too.

[Voluntaryist]

This story only offers more of a justification for building the wall! Rofl

[SpaceBar]

I’m surprised the diplomat’s name isn’t Jose Von Pappen.

[forgotten man]

Mexican politicians go ballistic if the U.S. Government does anything that they perceive to be American meddling in Mexico’s internal affairs, yet they are constantly butting into our internal political affairs.

[nicepaco]

If she builds a really good wall Mexico won’t have to worry about guns coming across.

[Billthedrill]

...contending that guns can be bought at “fairs, online and even in major supermarkets in the country,”

Nobody spouting this nonsense has ever tried it, so we can conclude that this individual is as self-evidently ignorant as the rest of the gun prohibitionists. Gotta talk to my grocer, though. A battle-pack or two of fresh ammo next to the tater tots would make my Saturday pilgrimage a one-stop-shopping experience.

[Lurkinanloomin]

I didn’t even want one, I think the round is too small.
It’s not good for deer, only varmints.
Bought one anyway, just to piss off liberals.

[PROCON]

Ohhh, that terrifying bayonet mount!!!

[SpaceBar]

err... Von Ribbentrop

[Hodar]

She blamed the demise of the U.S. federal assault weapon ban in 2004 in large part for Mexico’s gun violence problems.

Let's do the non-PC thing and place the blame where it belongs. Let us blame cowardly Mexican masses who lack the will to stand up to an extreme minority of criminals, and allowed them to take away Mexico by doing nothing. Let us blame Mexican's who tolerated corrupt Government officials who sat idly by and watched or participated In the drug industry.

All it takes for Evil to triumph is for Good Men to do nothing. And Mexico has good men doing nothing in spades.

[jsanders2001]

< In her speech, she held that Mexico is a peaceful nation committed to an effective, realistic and sensible arms trade regulation, holding that weapons for private use are strictly regulated and need a special permit from authorities to possess.

Well your exported citizens definitely aren't peaceful. Thanks to them and the Muzzie imports here and abroad in Europe we now understand why the 2A is such an important amendment. Send Ms Foreign Minister to any large city in California after hours and take away her guns. I'd like her opinion then.

[Red in Blue PA]

They make AR’S in 308......heck, I think they have them in 300 win mag

[smokingfrog]

supermarket guns are the worst - especially those assault potato guns!!

[Lurkinanloomin]

That’s because our politicians are working overtime to give them our country.
Yeb! and the rest of the #NeverTrumpers want us to become North Mexico

[Lurkinanloomin]

Where does that put us?
We are tolerating our government inviting illegal aliens in and letting them take our country.