By Lisa Marie Pane, Associated Press Among the thousands of immigrants who have been coming across the U.S.-Mexico border in recent months, many are seeking to escape gang and drug violence raging in…
By Alex Yablon, September 18, 2018 The Trace Smugglers who run weapons across the southern border are loyal customers. Rogelio Barajas got off his flight from central Mexico to O’Hare…
By Leslie Benavides On May 24, the Trump administration published a set of proposed rules to make it easier to export U.S. gun and ammunition.[1] The proposed rules would change…
A report by the Mexican Commission for the Defense of Human Rights and the Stop US Arms to Mexico Project of Global Exchange. Mexico faces an acute crisis of gun…
By Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, August 1, 2018. President Trump tweeted about Mexico's soaring violence this week, saying the United States must beef up its border security in response. He was…
Associated Press, July 11, 2018 By Christopher Sherman President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Wednesday he will cancel the pending purchase by Mexico's navy of eight armed Lockheed Martin MH-60R…
On May 24, the Trump administration proposed to make it easier to export U.S. gun and ammunition globally, even though U.S.-exported firearms are already used in countless crimes, attacks and…
Call to Suspend Aid for Military’s Police Ops Members of the U.S. Congress called on the secretaries of State and Defense yesterday to conduct a full and public evaluation of…
By Sarah Okeson, Salon, June 1, 2018. The plan would make it easier to sell American-made weapons to foreign governments and terrorists. Read more.
By Alex Yablon The Trace, May 25, 2018 Mexico is on track to have its most murderous year on record. Criminal violence in that country is overwhelmingly committed with firearms, most of…