Many of you probably have already read about how 90% of the guns recovered in Mexico come from the U.S.  Several people, including President Obama and his administration have used this as an excuse to increase the gun laws in the United States.

I have a couple of thoughts on the matter:

1.  I have never heard Mexico start talking about how they should increase drug laws in Mexico becuase 90% of the drugs recovered in the U.S. come from Mexico. (Ok . . . so I don’t actually know the percentage but it’s got to be high–and they don’t care AT ALL about the drugs in the U.S.)

2. Let’s look a little more at drugs–they are illegal already but it obviously hasn’t made it difficult to get drugs. It’s pretty obvious that if people want them they can get them. It’s already illegal to transport guns into Mexico. They don’t care about the law–otherwise they would obey the laws we already have.

3. They don’t want the low powered semi-auto guns we have in the U.S. They want high powered fully automatic rifles, hand grenades, rocket launchers, and other military weapons which are either HIGHLY regulated and extremely expensive, or outright illegal and impossible to legally obtain.

4. Why don’t we let Mexico deal with people bringing stuff into their country that they don’t want. These guys buy guns from all over the place–Russia, China, South American, etc. because they can get fully automatic weapons and real military weapons on the black market. They even go to their very own government. (See article in the last issue of American Rifleman where the Mexican Police recovered body armor that was stolen from the Mexican Police–you can also read about how a large percentage of the Mexican military quit and left with their M16 that the Mexican military received from the U.S.–so we gave it to them and then they steal it from themselves)

5.  The 90% statistic is bogus. A brief summary of where it comes from–when Mexico recovers firearms they analyze the gun themselves. If it looks like it’s from the States then they send it to the BATFE for tracing. Mexico has a pretty good idea (based on serial numbers) so really all the 90% number says is that Mexico is really good at guessing which guns come from the U.S. and which guns do not. In reality the number of guns is closer to 15-30% based on which report you look at.

I don’t like U.S. guns ending up in Mexico–but for a very different reason. That means that it was taken out of the hands of an American who could put it to good use in my country. Let’s worry putting back together our country before we start trying to control what happens in other countries.  And believe me–we have plenty to fix in our own country.

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