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March 22, 2023, Santa María Rayon , Mexico : The Mexican Army of the 22nd military zone destroyed 288 small weapons, 93 long weapons, 3472 ammunition and 102 magazines, which came from seizures by organized crime and had been placed at the disposal of the Ministry of National Defense. (Photo credit should read Arturo Hernandez / Eyepix Group/Future Publishing via Getty Images)

Behind a Rise in Latin America’s Violent Crime, A Deadly Flow of Illegal Guns

Americas Quarterly, May 15, 2023 By Carina Solmirano Weapons diverted from the U.S. and from militaries are plaguing the region. Governments can do more to combat the phenomenon. Murder is…

Stopping Illegal Gun Trafficking Through South Florida

Will Freeman, Council on Foreign Relations April 25, 2023 American-made guns trafficked through Florida ports are destabilizing the Caribbean and Central America and fueling domestic crime. It's time for the…

Guns Without Borders

Forum in Washington, DC, April 16, 2023 Hosted by Center for American Progress More than half of all gun violence deaths in the world occur in six countries in the…

International Delegation Report

Investigating the Global Firearms Trade and Its Human Impacts in Mexico Download the full report Executive Summary From February 19 to 25, 2023, an International Delegation visited Mexico to investigate…

US must stem ‘iron river’ of guns flowing to Latin America, activists say

By Sarah Morland, Reuters April 18, 2023 April 18 (Reuters) - U.S. guns, many of them exported legally, are flowing into Latin America in an "iron river" ending in the…

Confronting the Crisis of U.S. Gun Violence in Mexico

By John Lindsay-Poland Armed With Reason, April 13, 2023 The protracted and polarized debates about firearms in the United States frequently track the importance that each side attributes to two…

Mexico Appeals in Case Against Gun Manufacturers

April 4, 2023, Just Security by León Castellanos-Jankiewicz On Mar. 14, Mexico filed an appeal with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in its civil complaint against seven gun manufacturers…

Mexico says support growing for lawsuit against US gunmakers

Mexico News Daily, March 23, 2023 [Note: Stop US Arms to Mexico was party to two amicus briefs filed in support of Mexico's appeal of Mexico v. Smith & Wesson et.al. One…

A Cruz Roja Mexicana ambulance of Matamoros, Mexico, successfully transports two surviving kidnapped U.S. citizens to Brownsville Fire Department EMS ambulances through Veterans International Bridge at Los Tomates in Brownsville Tuesday, March 7, 2023. (Miguel Roberts/The Brownsville Herald)

Weapon used in Matamoros murder, kidnapping of four Americans came from U.S.

By Valerie Gonzalez The Monitor / myRGV.com, March 20, 2023 One of the weapons used in the fatal kidnapping of four American citizens in Matamoros was linked to a Valley…

Amid Violent Conflict, Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel Thankful for US Guns

Alexander Miller Geopolitical Monitor, March 9, 2023 Members of the Sinaloa Cartel expressed their appreciation for the availability and abundance of guns in the US in a recent documentary. The flow of illicit…