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…