Do you really believe that?
The US is the largest exporter of illegal firearms in the world. It's the biggest single problem Canada Customs has to face: the amount of weaponry being smuggled from your side of the border.
You realize that there are more Ak-47 type weapons than any other type in the world right, so, it would have to be Russia.
And China, Pakistan and Iran of course; allied communists country's at one point, who made large volumes of the weapons. It's not really possible to be the U.S. Even if you want to say we are exporting a lot, which I can prove we aren't, it's not even possible for it to be the primary weapon.
The U.S.'s most favorite weapon is the AR-15; so far, about 8 million have been created. There are over 100 million Ak-47's type weapons in the world.
The math is very simple. And most of these AR-15's are in government or civilian hands, not cartels or other organizations.
What confuses people is Obama's GOA (government accountability office) report said that 87% of firearms found in Mexico were traceable to the U.S.; the problem with this is that, the weapons only make up the number of traceable weapons. Since most firearms are not traceable, as they are made in illegal gun shops, and chemically retrievable serial codes are almost impossible to remove without destroying the functioning parts of the weapon, for the most part, any weapon that's not traceable either doesn't work or isn't of American, European, etc. legal origin.
According to the GAO report, some 30,000 firearms were seized from criminals by Mexican authorities in 2008. Of these 30,000 firearms, information pertaining to 7,200 of them (24 percent) was submitted to the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) for tracing. Of these 7,200 guns, only about 4,000 could be traced by the ATF, and of these 4,000, some 3,480 (87 percent) were shown to have come from the United States. Therefore the 3,480 figure only represents a total of 11.5% of the total 30,000 guns recovered, indicating that the other 90% or so weren't even traceable, meaning that could not have been of legal origin.
Further more, In 2009, Mexico reported that they held 305,424 confiscated firearms, but submitted data of only 69,808 recovered firearms to the ATF for tracing between 2007 and 2009. This is roughly a 23% sample of total gun population. The ATF requests "to only submit weapons for tracing that have a likelihood of tracing back to the U.S .... instead of simply wasting resources on tracing firearms that will not trigger a U.S. source." As a result, it's likely that the vast majority of the 305,424 firearms weren't even possible to be of American origin. Operating off this principle, then only roughly 1.1% of total firearms recovered in Mexico were traceable to the U.S. It is also notable that there have been 150,000 desertions from the Mexican army during 2003 to 2009, or about one-eighth of the Mexican army deserts annually. Many of these deserters are known to take weapons with them, some of which have been American provided weapons, to Mexico's military. As a result it's easy to see how only likely, a staggering small percent of weapons in the Drug Cartel's possession come from the U.S.
Put another way, while the 87% figure is almost true, it is 87% of 55% of 24% of 10% of all weapons, or roughly 1.1% of all weapons, and given that 1/8th of the Mexican army deserts annually and usually brings their illegally obtained weapons with them, the vast majority of illegal weapons of U.S origin likely are not coming from civilian stores. Hence it's unlikely that the U.S. is contributing to the Cartel's crime, while the cartel's are obviously smuggling illegal contraband into the U.S., clearly not of U.S. origin.[1][2][PDF]
Comparatively, the U.S. is right next to the home of the single largest cartels in the world, or the Mexican drug cartels. These cartels dominate the smuggling of blackmarket goods into the U.S., from drugs, to guns, to humans, to exotic animals, delivering over 90% of the illegal contraband into the U.S. In addition, their primary routes involve over land transportation methods, making sharing a closely geographically related land connection with the world's largest, most successful, and arguably most powerful cartel incredibly dangerous, and likely to increase crime and the presence of illegal contraband as a result. Crime is known to be higher at border states and border crossings than in other areas of the country.
However, in particular, they are responsible for approximately 90% of the illegal contraband in the U.S. Therefore, it would be difficult to impede the flow of illegal guns into the U.S. without some form of physical barrier, such as a large ocean, to decrease traffic into the U.S., but more or less it's easy to implicate the cartels in the smuggling of pre-soviet firearms into the U.S. The vast majority of weapons used in crimes or in organized crime are clearly not of U.S. origin, and it's easy to make that connection without exact statistics.
Edited by Manoka, 10 April 2013 - 08:11 AM.
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