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March 19, 2013

Study: 250,000 U.S. Guns Smuggled into Mexico Each Year 
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The U.N. global arms talks come as a new study has revealed that about 2
percent of all U.S. gun sales are made to groups that smuggle them into
Mexico. More than 250,000 U.S. guns head into Mexico each year as part
of an illegal trade worth nearly $130 million annually, according to
researchers at the University of San Diego. In fact, thousands of U.S.
sellers depend on the illegal sales and would go out of business without
them, the report found.

 

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