“For all the crying that “guns used in crimes” come from the US, the reality is that the AR-15 type rifles come from China, smuggled in through the coast or Cuba, Nicaragua or Venezuela.”
Years ago a friend loaned me a real police equipment catalog and I was surprised to learn that Norinco manufactures a full-auto M-14 clone, which they were selling (legally, to US police forces) for about $700.
Why would a frugal Mexican Drug Lord want to spend at least a Grand on a semi-auto AR-15 in the US when the Chinese stuff is so cheap?
Okay, probably crap, but very cheap crap.
And those that “come from the US” usually are from the defecting mexican army soldiers as they run away to the cartels and take their US-supplied/sold arms with them. Sold to the army, legally, I might add, FMS from the US government to the “government” of mexico..