By Alex Yablon, Foreign Policy March 8, 2019 The administration’s push to weaken oversight of gun exports could worsen the Central American refugee crisis. When Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández was…
WASHINGTON— Rep. Raúl M. Grijalva and Rep. Alan Lowenthal sent a letter on March 7 with 22 other Members of Congress to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo urging him to address…
On Feb. 4, the Trump administration presented to Congress new rules for the international sale of military-style firearms that could make it easier to export the gun violence and weapons…
National Catholic Reporter, February 28, 2019 By Mary Ann McGivern You may remember the kidnapping and presumed murder of 43 Mexican students in 2014 in Guerrero, Mexico. Local police who…
New Hampshire Union Leader, Feburary 27, 2019 Three former managers of German gun maker Sig Sauer accused of illegally selling firearms to Colombia have reached a deal with prosecutors that…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…