A report commissioned by Representative Eliot Engel and published on Monday details how Mexico’s drug cartels are using the same routes to smuggle drugs into the United States that are used to get American guns across the southern border.
Findings detail that 70% of the guns recovered from crime scenes in Mexico from 2009 to 2014 and traced by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), originated in the United States, Motherjones reported, detailing how cartel gun runners often buy weapons legally in the United States, either at gun shops, gun shows, or in private sales and smuggle them across the border. Continue reading “70% of Guns Found at Mexican Crime Scenes Came From US”