Posted on 10/14/2009 2:37:54 PM PDT by neverdem
MEXICO CITY — The United States should reinstate a Clinton-era ban on assault weapons to prevent such guns from reaching Mexican drug cartels, former officials from both countries said in a report released Tuesday.
The group, which includes two former U.S. ambassadors to Mexico, also said the U.S. should do more to stop the smuggling of firearms and ammunition into Mexico by stepping up investigations of gun dealers and more strictly regulating gun shows.
The Binational Task Force on the United States-Mexico Border listed the assault weapons ban as a step the U.S. should take immediately to improve security in both countries. The 10-year ban expired in 2004...
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KMA Mexico !
Your lack of border an internal security is YOUR problem Mexico !
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Not your worry when you get kickbacks from drug an human trafficking but now your blaming the US !
Maybe ya’ll ought to build a fence er sumpthin......:o)
How about starting with an illegal immigrants ban in the US?
Got it!
words mean things, especially when speaking of God Given Rights...
just come in on foot, nobody will stop ya...
Screw Mexico, if they didn’t want to buy these weapons there would be no market for them.
When it comes to drugs, the Mexican message is, “the reason why there is a supply of Mexican drugs is that there is an American demand....”
Yet here there are, not only advancing the fellacious claim that the primary source of fully-auto weapons is US citizens, but also that it is our duty to protect MEXICANS by outlawing such weapons here in the US.
The topper? Mexico just legalized drug possession.
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