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…
Dirty Ex-Cop-Turned-Gun Dealer Fueled Brutal Violence on the Mexico Border
By Francisco Alvarado VICE, December 12, 2018 A gun-trafficking case involving ex-law enforcement exposed the lie at the heart of Trump's race-baiting over the migrant caravan. The M-134G Minigun is…
CEO of gun company Sig Sauer arrested in Germany
German media reported on November 23 that Ron Cohen, the CEO of gun company Sig Sauer, was arrested at the Frankfurt airport in October for alleged involvement in an illegal delivery of…
They’re killing us in Honduras with U.S.-made guns, some in caravan say
Miami Herald, November 23, 2018 By Sarah Blaskey The Miami Herald found that the political violence in Honduras, which has contributed to an exodus of migrants, was sometimes carried out…
Fact Sheet on Sig Sauer Arms Exports to Mexico
Download PDF of this Fact Sheet. Updated November 2018 News alert, Nov. 23, 2018: The CEO of Sig Sauer in the United States, Ron Cohen, was arrested by German authorities…