News From the Border

Providing the news from a different front but from a war that we must win as well! I recognize the poverty and desperate conditions that many Latinos live in. We, as the USA, have a responsibility to do as much as we can to reach out to aid and assist spiritually with the Gospel and naturally with training, technology and resources. But poverty gives no one the right to break the laws of another sovereign nation.

Monday, March 12, 2007

Smugglers getting guns from U.S. dealers

The Associated Press

Published: 03.12.2007

MESA - Human and drug smuggling organizations in Mexico are getting their guns from the same places law-abiding citizens are getting theirs — licensed gun dealers and gun shows, according to court documents.

"There's an iron river of guns flowing to Mexico," said special agent Thomas Mangan, spokesman for the Phoenix office of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

Search warrant affidavits show smugglers are getting guns from "straw purchasers," people with clean records who buy guns for smugglers, who then sneak them across the border for a few hundred dollars.

Records show the weaponry is bought from legitimate dealers in cities from Tucson to Scottsdale and Apache Junction to Avondale.

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