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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 in Mexico that is impacting migrants as well as Mexican ...
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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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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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How US Guns Push Central Americans to Flee
By John Lindsay-Poland U.S.-sourced guns brutalize and force migrants to flee all along the route between Central America and the ...
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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 a lot of sound data to indicate that U.S.-sourced assault ...
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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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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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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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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 ...
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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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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Supplying the world’s third most-deadly war
Campaign Against the Arms Trade, September 11, 2015 John Lindsay-Poland At the DSEI fair in London this week, leaders of Mexico’s ...
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