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To: RandFan
Mexico's Gun Supply and the 90 Percent Myth

As we discussed in a previous analysis, the 90 percent number was derived from a June 2009 U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) report to Congress on U.S. efforts to combat arms trafficking to Mexico (see external link).

According to the GAO report, some 30,000 firearms were seized from criminals by Mexican authorities in 2008. Of these 30,000 firearms, information pertaining to 7,200 of them (24 percent) was submitted to the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) for tracing. Of these 7,200 guns, only about 4,000 could be traced by the ATF, and of these 4,000, some 3,480 (87 percent) were shown to have come from the United States.

This means that the 87 percent figure relates to the number of weapons submitted by the Mexican government to the ATF that could be successfully traced are not from the total number of weapons seized by Mexican authorities or even from the total number of weapons submitted to the ATF for tracing. In fact, the 3,480 guns positively traced to the United States equals less than 12 percent of the total arms seized in Mexico in 2008 and less than 48 percent of all those submitted by the Mexican government to the ATF for tracing. This means that almost 90 percent of the guns seized in Mexico in 2008 were not traced back to the United States.


17 posted on 08/30/2022 7:10:27 PM PDT by TigersEye (The Democrat Party is criminal, unAmerican and illegitimate )
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Stop selling guns to Mexico then, Joe. We know you do whatever 0bunghole tells you to do.

The ATF requested that gun shops sell to straw-buyers that didn't pass NICS background checks. As all gun dealers know a "request" from ATF is refused at their legal peril.

ATF field agents were ordered to let the straw-buyers cross the border and leave their surveillance, against their own strenuous objections, or "find another job."

Here is testimony, under oath, to all of the above by four ATF field agents.

The Department of Justice ’ s Operation Fast and Furious: Accounts of ATF Agents

Guns are not out of control. The Federal government is out of control.


21 posted on 08/30/2022 7:19:10 PM PDT by TigersEye (The Democrat Party is criminal, unAmerican and illegitimate )
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