Heckler & Koch’s illegal arms deal with Mexico
DW, February 20, 2019 Five H&K employees who conspired in a sale of G36 assault rifles to Mexico await their sentences in Stuttgart. The trial has offered insights into the…
Trump’s new gun export rules could aid terrorists, tyrants and criminals
CNN, February 14, 2019 By William Hartung For a man who regularly rails against the activities of criminal gangs and has claimed victory in the war on ISIS, President Donald Trump sure…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Human Rights Organization Supports U.S. Gun Proposals to Stop Bloodshed in Mexico
Versión en español. San Francisco, CA - Global Exchange and its Stop US Arms to Mexico project applaud the introduction in Congress of two critical bills that, if enacted, would…
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.
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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…
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…
Mexico’s gun violence a “moral crisis of complicity” for U.S. border states
By Gabriel Schivone and John Lindsay-Poland Arizona Daily Star, Dec 17, 2018 Many southern neighbors are hopeful about the overwhelming victory in Mexico by new president Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who…