How about a simple deal? If Mexico stops the flow of wetbacks we will stop the gun flow




http://www.newsmax.com/us/border_guns/2008/08/11/121064.html

ATF: Most Illegal Guns in Mexico Come From U.S.

Monday, August 11, 2008 7:00 PM

EL PASO, Texas -- Nearly all illegal guns seized in Mexico come from the United States, the head of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said Monday.

ATF acting director Michael Sullivan said investigators have traced 90 to 95 percent of the weapons found in Mexico to the U.S. Generally, only law-enforcement officers or military personnel can legally possess guns in Mexico.

Sullivan, speaking at the fifth annual Border Security Conference at the University of Texas at El Paso, said the weapons are being traced as part of an effort by the U.S. and Mexico to stop the illegal flow of guns south.

"In Mexico, investigators have provided some tremendous leads ... to weapons trafficking organizations," Sullivan said.

One bust came in May, when the owner of a Phoenix gun shop was arrested on charges that he knowingly sold hundreds of weapons to "straw purchasers" who funneled the weapons to violent drug cartels in Mexico. Two Mexican men accused of helping to set up the sales also were arrested.

Many of the weapons being found in Mexico have been traced to smuggling points in Southern California, Arizona, Texas and New Mexico, Sullivan said. But he added that weapons are being traced to sellers in "virtually every state, as far north as Washington state."

Sullivan said recent successes in tracking guns thought to be fueling an increasingly violent drug cartel war are attributed to an "e-trace" system that allows officials on both sides of the border to quickly track weapons.

"Tracing where these weapons are from is critical in the early stages," Sullivan said.

The weapons tracking program is only part of the U.S. effort to help curb drug violence in Mexico and in the U.S., Sullivan said.

FBI Director Robert Mueller, who also spoke at the border conference Monday, said the FBI is working directly with Mexican officials as part of an anti-kidnapping effort in Laredo and Nuevo Laredo. His agency has also developed a task force to focus on the "very few law enforcement officials who assist drug cartels" in the U.S., as well as helping curb the growth of prison gangs such as the Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13.

"We have slowed drug trafficking, tracked down violent fugitives and rescued kidnapping victims," Mueller said.

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Well BooHoo....our prisons are full of their people....I wonder who is actually sending those guns ....home...??

Mexicans, illegally in the US, sending guns back to Mexico.

"Two Mexican men accused of helping to set up the sales also were arrested. "

I would rather the FBI spend their time curbing the flow of illegal aliens into the US. Let Mexico enforce their own rancid gun laws.

quite frankly i couldn't care less if they have a gun problem.... i agree, boo hoo.....

hmm?

Bought with the proceeds of the illegal drugs they're selling here. Stop the drugs and the problem will go away...

Somehow they will hold this against the law abiding gun owner in the US. They always do.

Someone should tell Mexico that we'd be happy to trade all our illegal Mexicans for all their illegal guns - one of one... That ought to restore order to the universe.
But something tells me that they'll run outta guns wayyyy before we run outta surplus Mexicans.

I'd love to see the ATFs numbers on that, since last time I checked neither Norinco or FN were US companies.

Headline: "Most illicit freedom in tyrannous countries is exported from or inspired by a free country"

shocking

Hello
Unfortunately, I think the only way we'd convince Mexico to accept these quasi-literate wankers back would be to give em' more guns.
Too bad we couldn't have gotten ahold of those containers of Makarovs that got crushed...

Take back a messkin, get a gun! What a deal, especially if we ever get the fence built, so they can't run right back across. Heck, we could even use the gun to get the crimigrant to the border to make the swap, then just transfer both the gun and the crimigrant.

Maybe they would use the guns to clean up their own corrupt cesspool of a country.

guido2 in Houston

A lot of the guys doing highway drug interdiction are now finding ammo and weapons cached in the mule vehicles instead of cash. Stop the flow of illegal drugs and mules out of Mexico (there are plenty of white American mules working for the Cartels as well$$$$$) and their gun problem will go away. If the ATF REALLY wants to stop the flow of guns into Mexico, they should outlaw the Gold plating process, no self respecting cartel banger would be caught dead without a gold plated gun