Report: Almost 70% of Guns Found in Mexico Came From US

Newsmax ^ | Monday, 30 Apr 2012 02:58 PM | Newsmax Wires

[Olog-hai]

A new report from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) shows that more than more than 68,000—or 68 percent—of the 99,691 guns recovered in Mexico between 2007 and 2011 were either made in the U.S. or legally brought into the U.S. at some point.

As you might expect, gun-rights advocates and gun-control advocates view the data quite differently, The Hill reports.

Gun-rights advocates say the 68 percent number is overstated because the sample pool only reflects guns submitted to the ATF for traces. There are many other guns in Mexico, and many don’t have a U.S. connection, they say. Guns-rights supporters say Democrats try to use the inflated percentages to promote gun control. …

[donozark]

Ya. And about 70% of the people found in America came from Mexico!

[momtothree]

BTT!

[ConservaTexan]

Most of them stamped: Property of Eric Holder

[PeterPrinciple]

Ya. And about 70% of the people found in America came from Mexico!

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Are you proposing we give them the people back in exchange for our guns?

[FlingWingFlyer]

Almost 70% of the illegal drugs found in the U.S. came from Mexico. So what’s the ATF’s point?

[edcoil]

Any company in mexico make guns? Then I guess they would have to be imported. Need to call Holder and ask for an inventory of what he sent down.

[forgotten man]

How many of the American made guns came from the Mexican army? The cartels have recruiting signs hanging from highway overpasses aimed at Mexican soldiers. The soldiers desert and take arms and equipment with them. That is how the Zetas started.

[unkus]

There are no Mexican gun manufacturers so they have to come from somewhere else.

[Lazamataz]

Amazing. The child, with his hand caught in the cookie jar, yells loudly about other cookie thefts, and proposes harsh new cookie-theft laws.

[donozark]

Only if BATFE approves.../s

[TigersEye]

ATF Publishes Misleading Trace Data From Mexico
April 27, 2012 | Katie Pavlich

The Myth of 90 Percent: Only a Small Fraction of Guns in Mexico Come From U.S.
"The fact is, only 17 percent of guns found at Mexican crime scenes have been traced to the U.S."
April 02, 2009 | William La Jeunesse & Maxim Lott

Fast and Furious; 0bama's Bloodiest Scandal and its Shameless Cover-Up.
Video interview with author/journalist Katie Pavlich.

ATF Publishes Misleading Trace Data From Mexico
April 27, 2012 | Katie Pavlich

The Myth of 90 Percent: Only a Small Fraction of Guns in Mexico Come From U.S.
"The fact is, only 17 percent of guns found at Mexican crime scenes have been traced to the U.S."
April 02, 2009 | William La Jeunesse & Maxim Lott

Fast and Furious; 0bama's Bloodiest Scandal and its Shameless Cover-Up.
Video interview with author/journalist Katie Pavlich.

[MamaTexan]

Almost 70% of Guns Found in Mexico Came From US

Fast and Falsely Furious.

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I'm pretty certain 90% of cars found in Mexico came from the US, and cars kill more people than guns, so...

LET'S BAN ALL CARS!

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Absolute lie.

About 70% of the guns CHECKED with the ATF come from the US.

They only check them if they suspect they came from the US.

The vast majority are not checked with the ATF because there is no reason to believe those guns came from the US.

Guns are much cheaper to get from other countries than from the US.

[Vigilanteman]

Almost 70% of the illegal drugs and illegal aliens found in the U.S. came from Mexico.

So how about we take back our guns and return the illegal drugs and illegal aliens to them? Wouldn't it be nice?

[Wizdum]

And the dividend of “Fast and Furious” pays off for this administration

[Publius6961]

Report: Almost 70% of Guns Found in Mexico Came From US

BS!

Am I the only one that knows the facts?
Of all the guns that can be traced, yadda yadda...

95% of the guns in Mexico CAN'T BE TRACED!

Another "Damn the U.S.A. moment...

[Little Ray]

What they are forgetting to mention is that most (AR15 derivatives like the M-16) of them were legally tranferred to the various militaries of South and Central America by the US Goevernment.
In other words, the corrupt and incompetent governments of Central and South America armed the drug cartels out of their own armories.

[weston]

Build the fence...secure our border!

[GonzoGOP]

Well when you have no domestic manufacturing capability it kind of makes sense that most would be from the nearest location that does. That is just common sense. If the majority were from China, that would be something unexpected.