weapons

At least 80% of firearms in Mexico enter through the northern border and over 50% come from the U.S.; Texas and California are the main exporters

The SAT filed 7 lawsuits against employees linked to arms, ammunition, and money trafficking

Despite SEDENA's works for securing and retrieving weapons through campaigns, there are still 1,679,000 illegal weapons in the country

For decades, Israeli mafias have supplied weapons and laundered money for criminal organizations in Mexico

The Second Amendment in the U.S. Constitution guarantees the individual right to owning firearms and to use them for self-defense, with all the risks it implies

Small Arms Survey estimated that there are around 16,800 million weapons in the country

Mexico's arms imports peaked in 2015, when military spending rose to USD$7.7 billion

Today, EL UNIVERSAL revealed that during Peña Nieto's presidency, the Mexican government spent the largest amount of money on weapons in its history

Prosecutors said that the U.S. Border Patrol agent had helped a Mexican cartel to move illegal weapons and ammunition south of the border and illicit drugs to the north.

956 legal weapons were sold in Mexico in 2001, compared to 10,115 in 2015.