New Trump rules make it easier for U.S. gun makers to sell overseas

NBC News, Josh Lederman February 7, 2019 Manufacturers will no longer need State Department licenses to export dozens of weapons. WASHINGTON — Semi-automatic weapons, flamethrowers and even some grenades will…

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How US Guns Push Central Americans to Flee

By John Lindsay-Poland Versión en español. U.S.-sourced guns brutalize and force migrants to flee all along the route between Central America and the United States. In Honduras, El Salvador and…

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Urge Congress to Stop Arming Human Rights Abusers

U.S. guns exported to Mexico with few controls on where they go are part of the growing human rights crisis in Mexico that is impacting migrants as well as Mexican…

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Mexican Security Forces Commit War Crimes: Stop Arming Them

By Louis Epstein, January 29, 2019 Foreign Policy in Focus Americans might think of Acapulco as a tropical idyll but it’s increasingly something different: a homicide capital. U.S. weapons, sold to Mexican…

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Read more about the article Assault weapons in Mexico
NUEVO LAREDO, TAMAULIPAS, 28ABRIL2018.- Elementos del Ejército Mexicano llevaron a cabo un aseguramiento de armas, se lograron decomisar 206 armas largas, dos fusiles Barret, un lanza cohetes antitanque portatil, 33 cohetes, granadas, cartuchos, cargadores, entre otras. El arsenal decomisado por los soldados corresponde a cuatro operativos que se llevaron a cabo en esta ciudad fronteriza, luego de recibir una denuncia anónima, por lo que se llevó a cabo la coordinación con otras autoridades. FOTO: CUARTOSCURO.COM

Assault weapons in Mexico

Illegally trafficked weapons are difficult to count, but there is much sound data to indicate that U.S.-sourced assault weapons are more commonly used in violent crimes in Mexico than in…

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Read more about the article CEO of N.H. Gun Maker Facing Five Years in German Prison for Alleged Arms Deal
Investigators leave arms manufacturer Sig Sauer with boxes full of seized material in Eckernfoerde, Germany, 03 July 2014. The public proseceturs office of Kiel ordered the search after reports of illegal arms deals to Colombia. Photo: CARSTEN REHDER/dpa | usage worldwide (Photo by Carsten Rehder/picture alliance via Getty Images)

CEO of N.H. Gun Maker Facing Five Years in German Prison for Alleged Arms Deal

By Todd Bookman, January 9, 2019 New Hampshire National Public Radio Gun manufacturer Sig Sauer’s chief executive is accused by German prosecutors of colluding with Sig Sauer’s sister-company in Germany…

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Encuentran armas en escuela de Guerrero

REFORMA, enero 4, 2019 Chilpancingo, Guerrero.-El ejército encontró dos fusiles AK-47, cargadores y cartuchos al interior de una escuela en la comunidad El Mirabal, en Guerrero, informó el Vocero de la…

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