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They do get many from straw purchases here, which is already illegal can get you 10+yr in federal prison.
But also they get a fuckton of full auto guns that are illegal here from the mexican military's corrupt members, and other sources like china, somehow they get explosives too including south korean grenades have been found which is wild, and the best is Operation Fast & Furious, where the ATF just directly sold them a bunch of AKs "to track" and then surprise! "lost" them. They get em from multiple sources.

Not sure if I'd really use the troubles as a defense against the proliferation of personal ownership of firearms........
Kinda hard to claim you've been "radicalized" by denying other radicalized individuals the ability to fight off a oppressive foreign government with a long history of genocidal tyranny against your entire ethnicity.

Wrong. I don't know why Jay Hulme feels the need to lie but there is more than one gun store in Mexico.
A quick look at Wikipedia clearly shows that there are actually two gun stores.
- Even easier and faster; a quick look at google maps presents a list, their locations, hours of operation....
- The tessreact.
- BUSTED

We had to arm the drugs in the War on Drugs to make it a real fight.

Because screenshots of what someone said on social media aren't journalism:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firearms_regulation_in_Mexico
Mexico has restrictive laws regarding gun possession. There are only two stores in the entire country, DCAM near the capital, and OTCA, in Apodaca, Nuevo León. It also takes months of paperwork to have a chance at purchasing one legally.
- So you’re saying it’s easier to get a gun in Mexico than a RTX 5000 GPU in the US
  
  You really shouldn't be spending your money on either
  
  Yeah, but since the RTX 5000 doesn't even exist, it's no wonder
  
  Are you implying that it's easy to get an RTX 5000 in Mexico??

Something like 85% of guns used in crimes in Canada are smuggled from the US
- Sounds to me like someone should build a barrier of some sort to keep all those undesirables from the south out of their country.

Smuggled? The DEA was shipping them direct at one point.
- For the curious.
  Not literally shipping them, but setting up a sting that never stung. Ironically to stop the flow of illegal guns.

Too fast, too furious...
https://www.cnn.com/2013/08/27/world/americas/operation-fast-and-furious-fast-facts/index.html
The craziest thing cartels buying guns in America and smuggling them into Mexico isnt that the US government was selling to people they thought were smugglers.
It's that the people at the gun store are doing the same shit people are doing all over the place.
The used gun market is insane, I know a couple people that constantly buy new guns and sell them less than a year later. They don't question why some person is willing to buy $200 over new price for a used gun.
And the way the law is structured, that's in their best interest.
If a random person walks up and asks to buy a gun, you don't have to ask any other questions as a "private seller" and since you can only get in trouble if you know that person can't own a gun, the less questions the better.
The "private sale" loophole makes every other gun law just a slight hassle to get around. But no one wants to actually close it.
Edit:
It also incentives those sales.
No gun store will pay as much as someone who can't buy from a gun store.
So to make sure someone ends up with that can legally have it, the seller loses money.

The last thing the working classes of the world needs is for the owner class to have a monopoly on violence.

Why need more gun store when the biggest gun store in the world is right above you? 🤷🏻‍♂️
- Damn that gravity causing trickle down egunomy.

Restrictive gun laws, but live in North America? Just hop on over to the Ugunted Guns of Agundica and get as many as you want!

Maybe per city? I know there's one single gun shop where I live but not for the entire country? Lol
- There are two in the whole country. Finding that odd shows a very Americanized view where gun are ubiquitous instead of controlled which is the exact point of this article.
  
  Not American and I'm still baffled by that. I can think of two in my "small for US standards" city, in a country with less people than Mexico city, although most of their business is for sports and hunting.
  Ask for anything slightly large or automatic and they'll laugh all the way to a cell.
- Are there most likely small illegal shops? Absolutely. But he is correct. There is only one single legal firearms store in mexico city and is run by the military
  
  He didn't say Mexico City. He said "Mexico."
  
  Yeah, I think there's more than one of anything illegal anywhere here on Earth at any given moment. Of course I mean the legal shops. Lol

Accuracy of this post aside, would anyone be surprised if many of the cartel leaders are on a cia payroll?
I am not alleging that to be any truth, but i would digest that information like a weather report claiming rain when you’re still soaking wet from having been outside.
- You hardly have to speculate.
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Condor
  Condor was formally created in November 1975, when Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet's spy chief, Manuel Contreras, invited 50 intelligence officers from Chile, Uruguay, Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia, and Brazil to the Army War Academy in Santiago, Chile. The operation ended with the fall of the Argentine junta in 1983.
  ...
  In 1980, Regional Security Officer James Blystone had met with an Argentine Intelligence Source. In the declassified memo, Blystone had asked about the disappearance for two Montoneros that had plans to travel from Mexico to Brazil to meet with other Montoneros. The Argentine Intelligence Source had explained that they had been taken and interrogated, and later contacted their Mexican and Brazilian counterparts for approval to conduct an operation to capture the other Montoneros that were expecting their arrival. Once they were under custody, they had utilized fake documents to check into their hotel to impersonate their presence and not alert any other Montoneros of their capture. They were imprisoned at Campo de Mayo
  The Mexican Connection of the Iran Contra Affair
  In what newspapers here are calling ''the Mexican connection'' to the Iran-contra affair, the Mexican political establishment and its right-wing opposition are trading charges that each has maintained improper contacts with American organizations supplying aid to anti-Sandinista forces in Nicaragua.
  Critics of the opposition National Action Party accused the party of treason after it was disclosed last month that a prominent party member met several times in Washington last year with Carl R. (Spitz) Channell, director of the National Endowment for the Preservation of Liberty.
  Mr. Channell recently pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud the American Government by raising tax-deductible contributions for a purpose that was not deductible: buying arms for the contras. He was an associate of Lieut. Col. Oliver L. North, who developed the contra arms supply network while working for President Reagan's National Security Council.
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A9rida_Initiative
  Some examples of Mexico's paramilitary abuses at the time included the sexual assault and rape of dozens of female detainees by police in San Salvador Atenco, and the disappearances of dozens of teachers in the state of Oaxaca in 2006, as well as the killings of seven innocent bystanders, including the American journalist Brad Will by off-duty policemen. Almost half of Mexican police officers examined in 2008 failed background and security tests, a figure that rose to nearly 9 of 10 policemen in the border state of Baja California
  
  Also fun: Operation Fast and Furious
- They almost certainly are to some extent. That being said no cartel works for the CIA. The CIA isn’t nearly as good at espionage as some think.
- At this point in history, yes.
- I would be surprised if they weren't on the CIA payroll.

The international community should probably do what the US did to set the drinking age to 21, but for guns.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Minimum_Drinking_Age_Act

Honestly when 2nd constitution is for the entire world, but Americans are the only ones who mansplain it across the world in different formats; ie sabatoage or coup or rebellion groups..

Mexico doesn’t really check vehicles coming into the country either. That’s something they could start doing. I know I’ve only been stopped one time out of maybe 20 but granted I’m not transporting a firearm.
Downvotes for the truth i guess. Obviously there’s way too many guns but if you don’t even check at the entrance then that’s definitely an area for improvement