The Mexican police/military can’t secure their weapons, and the US gunmakers along with their distributors are responsible for that? Sounds like the old gun control argument writ large.
I don't think that's what this article is saying.
Here's how it works: A foreign government fills out an application to buy weapons from private gun manufacturers in the U.S. Then the State Department decides whether to approve.And it did approve 2,476 guns to be sold to Mexico in 2006. In 2009, that number was up nearly 10 times, to 18,709. The State Department has since stopped disclosing numbers of guns it approves, and wouldn't give CBS News figures for 2010 or 2011.