Texas Is Arming Mexico’s Gunmen
Data shows that firearms were purchased in 212 Texas counties before being trafficked to Mexico and recovered as crime guns from 2015-2022, for a total of nearly 22,000 firearms. by John…
Maps Show Where American Guns Are Trafficked Across Southern Border
Dan Gooding and Billal Rahman Newsweek, August 7, 2024 Immigration into the United States is being partly driven by gun violence — which itself is fueled by firearms bought in…
Kamala Harris Should Reframe Immigration as a Gun Control Issue
By Jean Guerrero, The New Republic August 5, 2024 She can show how U.S. weapons are driving immigrants. Kamala Harris is achieving what many people long believed was impossible: making…
More than 2,000 guns recovered in Mexico & Central America linked to Pima County firearms dealers
Report by anti-gun trafficking group traces firearms using newly released ATF data By Paul Ingram, Tucson Sentinel July 2, 2024 At least 2,259 firearms recovered in Mexico and Central America after violent…
Mexican cartels boast of increased lethal firepower, including some weapons from the U.S.
By Steve Fisher, USA Today June 29, 2024 The man sat on a worn-out office chair in the backroom of a market in the Mexican state of Sinaloa, amid vegetable trimmings…
Avoiding a Legal Battle, the ATF Has Released Near-Unprecedented Gun Trafficking Data
By Champe Barton, The Trace June 19, 2024 The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has released records detailing the origin of guns smuggled from the United States to Mexico…
The Iron River of Weapons to Mexico: Its Sources and Contents
The Iron River of Weapons to Mexico: Its Sources and Contents A report by Stop US Arms to Mexico June 2024 The iron river of weapons transiting from the United…
How the black market gun trade fuels Haiti’s conflict
By Matt Berg, Eric Bazail-Eimil and Miles Herszenhorn, Politico With help from Daniel Lippman June 7, 2024 The U.S. is spending hundreds of millions of dollars on a foreign intervention…
Hacked data reveals which US gun sellers are behind Mexican cartel violence
by Nick Penzenstadler, USA Today May 22, 2024 A massive leak of Mexican military intelligence has exposed for the first time in two decades U.S. gun shops and smugglers tied…
Armed with Reason podcast: The Mexican “arms race” and American-made guns
Armed with Reason, May 15, 2024 The complex Mexican "arms race" spurred on by the influx of American-made guns. GVPedia founder Devin Hughes speaks with anthropologist, author, and Brown University associate…