Ten Commandments for Gun Control
By Aram Barra Mexican Times, May 23, 2018 Yesterday, May 22, more than 50 Latin American citizen organizations and over a hundred security experts sent a public letter to the…
Arms Transfer Initiative Would Help U.S. Gun Industry Market its Militarized Firearms Globally
Tuesday, May 15, 2018 WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Trump Administration’s proposal to make it easier to export military-grade guns to other countries is likely to lead to increased violence and…
How U.S. Guns Sold to Mexico End Up with Security Forces Accused of Crime and Human Rights Abuses
The Intercept, April 26, 2018 John Lindsay-Poland In a room full of weapons industry representatives in Washington, D.C., in February, one by one, people introduced themselves. They had come together as…
Film: Illegal firearms flowing into Mexico are made in the U.S.
CGTN America, January 29, 2018, 11 minutes The sale of illegal guns is big business in Mexico. And they’re being sold by a mysterious source in the United States. The…
Firearm exports to Mexico, by US state, 2007-2017
Click on U.S. state to see dollar value and type of gun exports to Mexico. Data source: U.S. Census Bureau
Guns, not just bullets, need Sig Sauer’s attention
Arnie Alpert and John Lindsay-Poland Concord Monitor, July 23, 2017 Now that Sig Sauer has taken steps to control the fate of bullets fired from its Brentwood shooting range, it’s…
Lawmakers Urge Border States to Act to Stop Gun Trafficking to Mexico
WASHINGTON, DC (June 14, 2017) Members of Congress this week called on the governors of four U.S. states on the southern border to do more to stop illegal gun trafficking into…
Mexican Mother Pleads with U.S. to Stem Flow of Firearms
Howard Altschiller, Portsmouth Herald, 4 June 2017 “My purpose in coming here is to ask for mercy,” Maria Herrera Magdaleno, a Mexican mother of four “disappeared” sons, told a group gathered…
Supplying the world’s third most-deadly war
Campaign Against the Arms Trade, September 11, 2015John Lindsay-Poland At the DSEI fair in London this week, leaders of Mexico's navy and other military branches are hobnobbing with arms dealers from around…
German gunmaker Sig Sauer faces criminal charges over Mexico drug killings
Published by DW, August 31, 2015 German weapons maker Sig Sauer is facing a second lawsuit on suspicion of illegally exporting guns to Latin America. A Mexican drug cartel member has…