A subtlety in that quote: most guns were not submitted for tracing in the first place. Of those that were, ~90% led to the US. The whole 90-percent-of-Mexican-

A subtlety in that quote: most guns were not submitted for tracing in the first place. Of those that were, ~90% led to the US. The whole 90-percent-of-Mexican-gun-crimes-happened-with-US-sourced-guns argument never passed the smell test with me. Guns are expensive at retail. And wholesale prices aren’t low, either. Who wants to spend truckloads of cash on brand new guns from licensed dealers when all manner of ex-military AKs and FNs are available on the Latin American black market? Much cheaper and less risky to get guns from the south than the north. Anyway, what’s the proportion made up by US-sourced firearms? Nobody’s sure, but probably nowhere near the bulk of it: https://www.factcheck.org/2009/04/counting-mexicos-guns/ https://www.factcheck.org/2009/04/counting-mexicos-guns/