So 17% of the 30% come from the US?
Thats 5% of the original number. How many of those were fully automatic?
If the lies came from the ATF those people need to be fired.
According to the Mexican Attorney General, in the last two years, they've recovered about thirty thousand, twenty-nine thousand weapons in Mexico. They have submitted about only one-third of those to the United States for tracing. And according to testimony that we have from the special agent in charge, in Phoenix, of the ATF, only about six thousand of those were successfully traced, and about ninety percent of those came from the U.S. But basically, the bottom line here is that according to our figures, which we got from them, eighty-three percent of the guns that have been recovered in Mexico at these crime scenes are not from the United States.
So using the higher number of 30,000 confiscated guns from Mexico, 6,000 are traceable to the United States. Keep in mind the figures cover two years of confiscation.
That is one out of five or 20%.
80% of the guns confiscated in Mexico don't come from the US.
From 1987 thru 2006 74,918,551 total guns (handguns, shotguns and rifles) were manufactured in the US. Given that up to that point we were still a free market, those guns are likely in circulation. Gun Production U.S.
6000 / 74 918 551 = 8.00869734 × 10-5 according to Google.
As a percentage of guns recovered from U.S. sources = .008% of guns manufactured in the US over a ten year period. Compared to the total gun ownership it is even smaller.
(Please check my math)