Despite US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton‘s insistence that 90% of guns used in Mexican gang violence come from America, only 17 percent of guns found at Mexican crime scenes have been traced to the U.S.
The lie could be excused as an omission of fact from Secretary Clinton. ATF Special Agent William Newell told FOX News that “over 90% of the traced firearms originate from the US,” not 90% of firearms overall.
Firearms made in America are produced with a traceable serial number on them, which originates back to the specific producer of the firearm.
In 2007-2008, the Mexican government recovered 29,000 firearms at crimescenes in Mexico. Agent Newell reports that Mexico submitted 11,000 guns to the ATF for tracing. Out of that 11,000, only 6,000 were successfully traced – and out of that, 5,114, or 90%, actually came from the US.
The bottom line: only 17% of firearms used in Mexican violent crimes originate from the US.
Diane Feinstein makes a gun grab.
Hillary’s numbers-smudge has been repeated by lazy newsreporters and those with a political axe to grind, such as CBS News’ Bob Schieffer and NBC’s Mark Potter. To follow the old axiom, the lie has become truth and even worked into the Congressional record by California Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who said at a Senate hearing: “It is unacceptable to have 90 percent of the guns that are picked up in Mexico and used to shoot judges, police officers and mayors … come from the United States.” William Hoover, assistant director for field operations at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, testified in the House of Representatives that “there is more than enough evidence to indicate that over 90 percent of the firearms that have either been recovered in, or interdicted in transport to Mexico, originated from various sources within the United States.”
The majority of guns used in violent Mexican crimes come from a number of places: other Latin and South American countries, Asia, and Russian crime syndicates. The firearms are sold through the Mexican black market, which is a United Nations of illegal arms sales, smuggled in from everywhere from China to Israel to the former Soviet Bloc countries.
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She is too dishonest to acknowledge her & her wife’s part in NAFTA, and further prosecuting the failed drug war. She & wifey bill could at least alleviated the problem without laying a finger on the 2nd Amendment
Mexico was always a lawless, criminal and would be revolutionary infested hole. It springs from their culture. They bring the guns in and buy them.