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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 of Global Exchange. Mexico faces an acute crisis of gun ...
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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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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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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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