American Guns Fueling Mexican Violence

In 1993 U.S. gun retailers depended on Mexican markets for 37% of their sales. That number rose to 47 in 2012

Mexican attempts to seize illegal firearms at the border are largely ineffective, with the majority of the guns slipping past border authorities

Since 2006 120,000 people have been killed in Mexico, the majority with firearms

• the majority of these deaths are committed by drug related cartels
• the majority of the weapons used from sourced illegally from the U.S.

Gun laws are extremely strict in Mexico and there is only one licensed gun retailer in the entire country compared with the 50,000 in the U.S. The current situation has U.S. retailers profiting from the militarized drug war.