Gross Human Rights Abuses: The Legal and Illegal Gun Trade to Mexico
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…
Trump says Mexico’s violence is a threat to the U.S. Here are 3 ways the U.S. helps drive that violence
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…
Mexico’s president-elect says he’ll stop US helicopter deal
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…
Sig Sauer representative and child at Arizona festival in March.
The Trump Administration proposes making gun exports easier. Here is how you can submit your public comment on this dangerous proposal.
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…
U.S. Lawmakers: Drug War Causing Killings in Mexico
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…
How America Is Exporting Gun Violence to Mexico
In These Times, June 14, 2018 By Laura Weiss Recent shootings have rekindled a national conversation about the disproportionate levels of gun violence in the United States and the lax…
U.S. gun industry wants a bigger piece of the world’s arms trade
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.
American Guns Are Fueling Record Homicides in Mexico. Experts Urge the White House to Take Action.
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…
There is only one gun store in all of Mexico. So why is gun violence soaring?
By Kate Linthicum The Los Angeles Times, May 24, 2018 The only gun shop in all of Mexico is behind a fortress-like wall on a heavily guarded military base. To…
Trump Opens Door For U.S. Gun Industry To Sell More Firearms Abroad
By Travis Waldron and Nick Wing Huffington Post, May 24, 2018 Senators and human rights groups worry the proposed rule changes will export the U.S. gun violence epidemic. Read more.