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Gun Dealer Accused Of Selling To Cartels

CBS Evening News: Gun Runners Send Thousands Of Weapons From The U.S. To Mexico, Fueling That Country's Drug Wars

LOS ANGELES, March 9, 2009 | by Ben Tracy

Gunrunning Across The Border
In the continuing drug war in Mexico, the assault weapons they use such as AK-47s and 50 caliber rifles are largely coming from U.S. traffickers at a rate of 2,000 a day. Ben Tracy reports.

(CBS) In Phoenix Monday, a gun dealer went on trial for supplying assault rifles to Mexican drug gangs who are locked in a bloody war with authorities -- and each other. CBS News correspondent Ben Tracy reports on a case that's being watched closely in both the United States, and in Mexico.

In the escalating drug war south of the border, Mexican cartels supply the drugs, but the guns largely come from the United States.

"Firearms trafficking to Mexico is a huge problem," says Phoenix ATF agent William Newell. "Drugs go north, guns come south."

George Iknadosian is accused of being a top gun-supplier. When government agents raided his Phoenix gun shop last May, they found hundreds of weapons allegedly destined for Mexico. He's now on trial, accused of knowingly selling more than 700 guns to so-called straw buyers - U.S. citizens who buy the guns legally and then turn them over to a trafficker.

"They get $100 for their trouble, and the trafficker will take the gun down to Mexico and sell it for exponentially more than they pay here," says ATF agent Peter Forcelli.

As many as 2,000 firearms are believed to cross the border into Mexico every day. And they are often assault weapons, Tracy reports.

The ATF says that 7,700 guns found in Mexico last year were traced to sellers in the United States.

"All the killing they are doing here are killing with guns that are selling in the United States," said Tijuana Mayor Jorge Ramos.

Mexican law makes it nearly impossible to buy guns there legally. But less restrictive laws in the U.S. keep the firearms flowing over the border. Court papers in the Iknadosian case claim U.S. border states provide three-quarters of black market firearms to Mexico.

And with more than 2,000 people killed so far this year in drug-related violence in Mexico, cutting off the gun supply is now a top concern on this side of the border.

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Ok folks! This garbage is on CBS now, you can expect the elites in America to make a move on guns anytime now. Second amendment rights abridgment imminent!

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Examining the US-Mexico Gun Trade - International Business News

...Mexico has no gun-tracing system of its own, so it relies on the A.T.F., to whom it sends between 3000 and 7000 trace requests each year. ...

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ATF: most illegal guns in Mexico come from U.S. - USATODAY.com

Nearly all illegal guns seized in Mexico come from the United States, the head of the US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said Monday.

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Originally Posted by JohnDoe2

Examining the US-Mexico Gun Trade - International Business News

...Mexico has no gun-tracing system of its own, so it relies on the A.T.F., to whom it sends between 3000 and 7000 trace requests each year. ...

www.portfolio.com/news-markets/internat ... -Gun-Trade - 150k - Cached - Similar pages

I'm beginning to think you would make an excellent liberal poltician.
If I keep saying the same thing over and over again ignoring the facts and arguments against mine until those that offer the truths give up and ingnore me, I will know then that I am right and they were wrong.
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So far all you have had to offer is the liberal views of events that agree with yours but have ignored the facts others have had to give.
Who's side are you really on here John???
I want facts and truth, not some NY times article written by someone who knows nothing but what they read in some other article.

Seal the border now! No drugs in, no illegals in, and none of these supposed US "assault weapons" going out.

A single action fixes three problems, seems pretty simple to me

What a bunch of garbage.What will be the last straw we as Americans are willing to take?

Its Smith and Wessons fault the mexican druglords are killing every one in sight? And it wouldn't have anything to do with our borders being wide open would it?