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Interactive: Firearms in Mexico

Stop US Arms to Mexico and the Mexican Commission for the Defense and Promotion of Human Rights present “Firearms in Mexico,” an interactive platform that permits users to visualize what, ...
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Mexico vs. Gun Companies

Lawsuit is step in the right direction, but more needed, say experts Press release (español aquí) August 4, 2021 – The Mexican government filed suit in federal court today against ...
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Don’t shield U.S. gun makers from liability for Mexico’s gun violence

Jean Guerrero, Los Angeles Times November 26, 2021 If it weren’t for U.S. gun companies supplying a steady stream of weapons ...
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How the ‘Craigslist of Guns’ Helps Arm Cartels in Mexico

Investigators traced guns found in the border city of Reynosa back to Americans who used the website Armslist. Published on ...
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Interactive: Firearms in Mexico

Stop US Arms to Mexico and the Mexican Commission for the Defense and Promotion of Human Rights present “Firearms in ...
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Fact Sheet: Mexico’s Lawsuit & Implications for U.S. Policy

Fact Sheet: Mexican Government vs. Gun Companies: Lawsuit & Implications for U.S. Policy towards Mexico The following is a summary ...
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The U.S. is organizing a $5 million gun sale to Mexican forces accused of murder and kidnapping

As the two countries meet this week to discuss security cooperation, lawmakers see the sale as evidence of a systemic ...
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Global Exchange welcomes letter from US Senators on control of arms exported to Mexico

Leer en español Washington, DC.- On September 14, four U.S. Senators asked Secretary of State Antony Blinken to suspend weapons ...
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A New Lawsuit Illustrates the Problem of U.S. Guns in Mexico

by Eugenio Weigend and Joel Martinez, Center for American Progress September 2, 2021 Last month, the Mexican government filed a ...
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Lawsuit Targets Arms Flows to Mexico

Arms Control Today, September 2021 By Jeff Abramson The Mexican government took a novel approach to curtailing illegal gun trafficking into ...
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Mexico v. Smith & Wesson: Does US Immunity for Gun Manufacturers Apply Extraterritorially?

by William S. Dodge and Ingrid Wuerth Just Security, August 19, 2021 Earlier this month, Mexico sued six U.S. gun manufacturers, one foreign ...
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Panel: Legal approaches to reduce gun violence—Mexican and U.S strategies

August 18, 2021 Attention to the production and marketing of firearms in the United States, in relation to violence within ...
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Why Mexico Is Right to Sue U.S. Gun Companies

The lawsuit over drug cartel violence could be part of a bigger change on guns. Ioan Grillo, Foreign Policy August 12, ...
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American guns are flooding into Mexico and wreaking havoc

The Guardian, August 6, 2021 By Robert Reich Mexico has tried almost everything to stop US-made guns from fueling cartel ...
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Mexico vs. Gun Companies

Lawsuit is step in the right direction, but more needed, say experts Press release (español aquí) August 4, 2021 – ...
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Mexico sues US gunmakers in unprecedented attempt to stop weapons crossing border

Country seeking up to $10bn in damages in Massachusetts lawsuit US-made weapons used in cartel battles and attacks on civilians ...
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Mexico near deal to buy Sig Sauer automatic rifles from U.S. sources

By Patricia Zengerle and Mike Stone Reuters, August 3, 2021 WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The small arms maker Sig Sauer Inc ...
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Report: Invisible Weapons, Indelible Pain

The Urgent Necessity for Transparency in the U.S. and Mexican Gun Trade A report by the Mexican Commission for the Defense ...
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Two Events to Prevent Gun Violence in Mexico

Wednesday, July 28, 3pm-4pm EST, 2pm-3pm CDMX, 12pm-1pm Pacific, 9pm-10pm Germany Invisible Weapons, Indelible Pain: The Urgent Necessity of Transparency in ...
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SIG Sauer Must Pay Historic 11 Million Euros Over Illegal Arms Sales / SIG-Sauer-guns are being used in Colombia to commit crimes and human rights abuses

SIG Sauer Must Pay Historic 11 Million Euros Over Illegal Arms Sales / SIG-Sauer-guns are being used in Colombia to ...
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El Ejército de EU “pierde” armas. Aparecen en países como México

Publicado en AP por Kristin M. Hall, James Laporta, Justin Pritchard y Justin Myers En la primera investigación en su ...
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Over 100 International Organizations Urge President Biden to Stop U.S. Arms Sales to Mexico

Over 100 International Organizations Urge President Biden to Stop U.S. Arms Sales to Mexico Press Release, April 13 2021 Comunicado en ...
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Controversial Guilty Verdict for Weapons Trafficking to Mexico Upheld by Top German Court

The guns were used during the forced disappearance of 43 teaching students in the state of Guerrero in 2014. Ricardo ...
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Mexican Police Who Massacred Guatemalan Migrants Get Their Guns from the U.S.

NACLA Report on the Americas, April 1, 2021 by John Lindsay-Poland On the third day of the Biden administration, January ...
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Trump made it easier to export U.S. guns. Biden must reverse these dangerous policies

By John Lindsay-Poland and William D. Hartung Los Angeles Times, March 12, 2021 Last March, the Trump administration implemented regulations to make ...
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A gun pledge Biden can easily keep

By Jeff Abramson, The Hill March 9, 2021 In his 2019 gun violence prevention policy platform then-presidential candidate Joe Biden pledged to “ensure ...
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U.S. gun export data update for 2020

by John Lindsay-Poland, Stop US Arms to Mexico Led by pistol exports to Thailand and Mexico, the number of semi-automatic ...
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The Fight Against Global Gun Violence: Roundtable with Progressive Changemakers

A discussion on March 17, 2021, of the connections between gun violence prevention within the United States and internationally, with ...
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Cobertura sobre tráfico de armas: ángulos y geografías

Publicado por Periodistas de a Pie 29 de Enero 2021 Desde el área de formación y capacitación de la Red ...
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Slow the Iron River of Guns to Mexico

By Ioan Grillo The New York Times MEXICO CITY — In 2008, the U.S. gun maker Colt, based in Hartford, Conn., ...
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The United States, a Special Operations Unit and a Massacre in Mexico

By Parker Asmann, InSight Crime February 12, 2021 The United States provided training to a troubled Mexican police unit — several ...
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Federal Court of Justice Hears Revision in the Case of Illegal Arms Exports to Mexico

Heckler & Koch Before the Highest German Criminal Court Federal Court of Justice Hears Revision in the Case of Illegal ...
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The arms trade keeps Mexico at gunpoint. The role of Italy

Altreeconomia no. 234 by Caterina Morbiato, February 1, 2021 In the country, the army controls the armed supplies destined for the police. An ...
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Webinar on Arms Trafficking between the U.S. and Mexico

Please join the University of Arizona for a Webinar on Arms Trafficking between the U.S. and Mexico, to be held on Wednesday, February ...
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Monografía sobre webinars de 2020

Monografía sobre webinars de 2020INTRODUCCIÓNAntecedentes: Informes recientes indican que la carga mundial de la violencia armada representa más de 250.000 ...
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Rochester and the state are now partners in gun violence

By Arnie Alpert and John Lindsay-Poland January 17, 2021, Seacoast Online With the authorization of additional public funds to support Sig ...
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Infographics on the Illegal Gun Trade to Mexico

Produced by Mexico’s Ministry of Foreign Relations Click on images to enlarge [Versiones en Español aquí] ...
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Deadly Trade: How European and Israeli Arms Exports are Accelerating Violence in Mexico

Español aquí Weapons companies based in Europe and Israel exported more than 238,000 firearms to Mexico for use by police ...
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The Kidnapped American Trump Forgot

Jorge Dominguez was a U.S. citizen kidnapped in Mexico by the military. Did the U.S. government do anything to find ...
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The Hidden Pandemic: How U.S. Arms Sales Have Fueled Decades of Violence in Latin America

Witness for Peace Solidarity Collective December 14, 2020, 51:39 minutes In this episode of Solidarity Radio we are joined by ...
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Deadly Trade – Infographics

All infographics created by Agir pour la Paix. (Ver infográficos en Español) Read the report: Deadly Trade: How European and ...
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An Ocean of Guns:

Mexico’s Journalists in the Crossfire of the International Arms Trade by Phineas Rueckert, Forbidden Stories December 9, 2020 At least 86 ...
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Somewhere in Mexico

Control of arms exports Wolf-Dieter Vogel, taz [google translate from the German original] December 7, 2020 The German arms factory Dynamit ...
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Welcoming Marco Castillo

We are delighted to announce the hiring by Global Exchange of Marco Castillo, who will serve as lead U.S. organizer ...
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The Sniper Rifles Flowing to Mexican Cartels Show a Decade of U.S. Failure

The Washington Post, November 19, 2020 By Kevin Sieff and Nick Miroff NOGALES, Mexico — North of the border, the ...
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Webinar: Deadly Trade

Deadly Trade: How European and Israeli weapons exports are accelerating violence in Mexico Watch the Webinar November 24, 2020 Weapons ...
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Ex-Mexico army chief arrested in LA on drugs, money charges

By E. Eduardo Castillo and Stefanie Dazio The Associated Press, October 15, 2020 Former Mexican defense secretary Gen. Salvador Cienfuegos, ...
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German weapons and the Ayotzinapa case

A webinar on the illegal sale of assault rifles from Germany and the lethal consequences for Mexico Film documentary “Lethal ...
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US Gun Exports Have Spiked During the Pandemic

By John Lindsay-Poland Inkstick, September 9, 2020 In the first five months of new looser federal rules for exporting firearms, ...
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US Hemorrhaging Weapons to Mexico, One at a Time

By Zachary Goodwin, InsightCrime September 8, 2020 A recent UN report shows that traffickers move weapons from the United States to ...
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Mexican Cartels Are Arming Themselves to the Teeth With Powerful US Sniper Rifles

High-powered .50-caliber rifles can be purchased legally in most of the U.S. — and they keep showing up in the ...
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Webcast: The Mass Shooting in El Paso and Controlling Gun Traffic to Mexico

August 3, 2020 Fabián Medina is head of cabinet of Mexico’s Secretary of Foreign Relations. Victoria Estrada is editor and producer of audio reports ...
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Local Solutions to a Hemispheric Challenge

Gun Violence in the Americas: Local Solutions to a Hemispheric Challenge Webinar hosted by the Consortium of Universities for Global ...
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Flow of US Guns and Violence Against Women in Mexico and Central America

our next event The Flow of U.S. Guns and Violence Against Women in Mexico and Central America June 25, 2020 ...
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Webinar: Enfoques nacionales para enfrentar armas en México y Centroamérica

Presentaciones en Powerpoint Natalia Báez Zamudio Mark Ungar Montserrat Martinez Suchit Chavez Gráfico: Silvia Minguzzi ...
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America’s Guns Fuel Mexico’s Domestic Violence Epidemic

By Meaghan Beatley, Foreign Policy May 27, 2020 On Nov. 25, 2019, while thousands of women took to the streets of ...
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Hemisphere: Interview on stopping weapons traffic to Mexico

Elena Klaver interviews John Lindsay-Poland in this 25-minute interview aired on May 5, 2020 by Boulder, Colorado’s KGNU community radio ...
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Carte blanche: “Mexico must be supported in its fight against firearms”

Le Soir, April 20, 2020 (google translation from French) By Fabián Medina, Chief of Staff to the Minister of Foreign Affairs ...
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‘All weapons we sell are from the US’: Smuggling guns into Mexico

Source: Al Jazeera A Mexican arms trafficker, a hitman, and the wife of a victim of gun violence talk about weapons ...
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Webinar recording: Gun Violence in the Americas: Focus on Mexico

This 60-minute webinar on March 24, 2020 features presentations by Dr. Stephen Hargarten, Natalia Báez, and John Lindsay-Poland on gun ...
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Why We Fight To End Gun Violence

Gun violence affects nearly everyone. Close to 40,000 Americans die and more than 100,000 are injured by gun violence every ...
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Trump’s Export Reform Will Shower Gun Industry in Central American and Mexican Blood Money

by Brett Heinz, Center for Economic and Political Research (CEPR) February 20, 2020 El Salvador has one of the highest homicide rates in ...
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New Arms Exports Rule Will Spread US Gun Violence Beyond Borders

The Globe Post, January 28, 2020 Adotei Akwei A new rule announced on Thursday by the Donald Trump administration will make it far easier to export ...
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European Gun Makers Are Quietly Supplying the Mexican Drug War

Vice, Robin Eveleigh January 28, 2020 From the safety of gleaming mansions in the foothills of the Italian Alps, government-owned ...
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How the US made the so-called ‘safe third countries’ unsafe

Despite Donald Trump’s claims, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador are everything but safe. by Belen Fernandez, Al Jazeera December 29, ...
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Trump administration’s dangerous plan to make it easier to export assault weapons

By Jeff Abramson, November 18, 2019 CNN Less than 10 days after six children and three women of a US ...
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Stemming the Guns of Massacre in Mexico

By John Lindsay-Poland and Dee Rowland Salt Lake Tribune, November 16, 2019 The massacre of six children and three women ...
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Italian Weapons in Mexico

November 12, 2019 – Italy is exporting tens of thousands of high-powered weapons to Mexican forces involved in human rights ...
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Mexico rejects Trump’s ‘war’ strategy

Leader calls US approach against drugs a ‘disaster’ By Mary Beth Sheridan, Washington Post MEXICO CITY — President Andrés Manuel ...
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What Trump Didn’t Say About the Massacre in Mexico

By Ioan Grillo, New York Times November 6, 2019 If the president wants to fight the cartels behind killings like Monday’s attack ...
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Beyond Our Borders but Within Our Control

How U.S. Gun Policy Influences Violence in Mexico By Eugenio Weigend Vargas and Rukmani Bhatia, Center for American Progress November 1, 2019 Gunfire, ...
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American-Made .50-Caliber Rifles Help Fuel Mexican Cartel Violence

Alex Yablon, The Trace October 29, 2019 Mexican authorities were outgunned by criminal cartels in two notable incidents this month. In ...
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Two Mass Killings by Shooters in Mexico in as Many Days

Assault weapons trafficked into Mexico were used in an ambush and massacre of police officers in Michoacán on Monday. This ...
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Mexicans are killing each other at record rates. The U.S. provides the guns

Los Angeles Times By Kate Linthicum, October 6, 2019 FILO DE CABALLOS, Mexico — The sun had not yet risen ...
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Mexico says will focus on arms smuggling at U.S. meeting on migrant flows

Reuters, September 10, 2019 MEXICO CITY – Mexico said it would press the United States to halt arms smuggling across ...
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Restore controls over dangerous gun exports

By William Hartung, The Hill September 10, 2019 One of the most ill-advised decisions made by the Trump administration is ...
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Lack of US Gun Control Provokes Record Bloodshed in Mexico

InsightCrime, August 31, 2019 by Parker Asmann The problem of US-sourced firearms finding their way into the hands of Mexico’s ...
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Banning high-capacity magazines in the U.S. will strengthen security, save many lives in Mexico

Over 112,000 high-capacity magazines recovered at Mexican crime scenes September 6, 2019 – The House Judiciary Committee will vote next ...
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An $8 Billion Murder Industry

Jacobin, August 2019 By Kurt Hackbarth American gun manufacturers are responsible for arming the El Paso shooter. They’re also responsible ...
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After El Paso, Mexico Takes a New Approach to Trump

The New Yorker By Stephania Taladrid, August 10, 2019 On Sunday evening, as U.S. authorities considered bringing hate-crime charges against the gunman ...
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Arming the Cartels: The Inside Story of a Texas Gun-Smuggling Ring

Selling weapons south of the border is big business — and America’s loose gun laws are also devastating for Mexico By ...
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After El Paso Attack, Mexico Demands Protections for Mexicans in the U.S.

By Elisabeth Malkin and Azam Ahmed, The New York Times August 4, 2019 Mexico demanded protections for Mexicans and Mexican-Americans living in the ...
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Mexico, US to launch plan against arms smuggling at border

By Associated Press July 22 at 1:58 PM MEXICO CITY — The Mexican government said Monday it has reached agreement with ...
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The U.S. Is Flooding the World With Guns. Congress Can Stop That.

Gun exports reached record levels in 2017 and again in 2018. Can Congress stop Trump from loosening the rules even ...
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House approves measure to control deadly gun exports

July 11, 2019 The House of Representatives voted Thursday to prohibit a Trump administration proposal to transfer weapons export controls ...
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The flow of guns from the U.S. to Mexico is getting lost in the border debate

PBS News Hour, June 12, 2019 By Gabriela Martinez. While the Trump administration’s hardline approach to immigration has focused on ...
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Breaking Through – radio program with Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

In recognition of #WearOrange National Gun Violence Awareness Day, we have an entire show dedicated to stopping gun violence. We cover ...
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Overlooked in U.S.-Mexico talks: Guns illegally crossing the border

CBS News. By Megan Cerullo, June 7, 2019 Arturo Sarukhan, the former Mexican ambassador to the U.S., has a proposal ...
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Fact Sheet on U.S. Weapons Sales to Honduras

U.S. guns in Honduras – in the hands of both state forces and gangs – brutalize communities and families, making ...
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More than 100 Organizations Urge Congress to Reject Proposal to Weaken Gun Export Controls

Administration’s Proposed Rule Could Result in Proliferation of 3D-Printed Firearms WASHINGTON, D.C., May 14, 2019 –Today a diverse group of more ...
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Congressional Hearing on Gun Exports

On March 26, the House Committee on Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations held a hearing, “Proposed Small Arms ...
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Trump Is Sending Guns South as Migrants Flee North

By Alex Yablon, Foreign Policy March 8, 2019 The administration’s push to weaken oversight of gun exports could worsen the Central ...
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Rep. Grijalva and Rep. Lowenthal Lead Congressional Letter on U.S. Firearms Sales to Mexico

WASHINGTON— Rep. Raúl M. Grijalva and Rep. Alan Lowenthal sent a letter on March 7 with 22 other Members of Congress ...
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Press Briefing on Firearms Export Reform

On Feb. 4, the Trump administration presented to Congress new rules for the international sale of military-style firearms that could ...
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Mexico disappearances highlight consequences of small arms exports

National Catholic Reporter, February 28, 2019 By Mary Ann McGivern You may remember the kidnapping and presumed murder of 43 ...
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Ex-Sig Sauer execs to avoid jail time for funneling 38,000 guns destined for Colombia through NH

New Hampshire Union Leader, Feburary 27, 2019 Three former managers of German gun maker Sig Sauer accused of illegally selling ...
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Heckler & Koch’s illegal arms deal with Mexico

DW, February 20, 2019 Five H&K employees who conspired in a sale of G36 assault rifles to Mexico await their ...
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Trump’s new gun export rules could aid terrorists, tyrants and criminals

CNN, February 14, 2019 By William Hartung For a man who regularly rails against the activities of criminal gangs and has claimed ...
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New Trump rules make it easier for U.S. gun makers to sell overseas

NBC News, Josh Lederman February 7, 2019 Manufacturers will no longer need State Department licenses to export dozens of weapons ...
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How US Guns Push Central Americans to Flee

By John Lindsay-Poland Versión en español. U.S.-sourced guns brutalize and force migrants to flee all along the route between Central ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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The Attitude: Interview with Natalia Báez and John Lindsay-Poland

WNHN, New Hampshire, October 17, 2018 Special guest host Arnie Alpert of the American Friends Service Committee NH interviews Natalia ...
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As immigrants flow across the U.S. border, American guns go south

By Lisa Marie Pane, Associated Press Among the thousands of immigrants who have been coming across the U.S.-Mexico border in recent months, many ...
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Guerrero State attorneys office personnel investigate the scene at San Juan del Reparo, Guerrero State, Mexico, March 31, 2015, one days after five people were killed in a shootout between the rival civilian self-defense forces. Guerrero is one of Mexico's poorest and most violent states. It was in this state that 43 college students were allegedly abducted by police and handed to a gang that slaughtered the group, in a case that has turned into the biggest challenge of President Enrique Pena Nieto's administration. AFP PHOTO / PEDRO PARDO (Photo credit should read Pedro PARDO/AFP/Getty Images)

ATF Documents Show How Traffickers Exploit Lax Sellers and Weak Laws

By Alex Yablon, September 18, 2018 The Trace Smugglers who run weapons across the southern border are loyal customers. Rogelio ...
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A Common Threat Is Uniting Prosecutors, Law Enforcement, International & Domestic Gun Violence Prevention Groups

Nick Wilson and William D. Hartung August 17, 2018, The Brady Campaign There has always been some cross over between ...
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Sale of SeaSparrow missiles to Mexico approved by State Department

Defense News, August 10, 2018 By Stephen Carlson The State Department has approved a possible foreign military sale to Mexico of ...
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Human Rights and the Trump Administration’s Gun Export Proposals

By Leslie Benavides On May 24, the Trump administration published a set of proposed rules to make it easier to ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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