Federal Indictment Against 17 Persons for Trafficking Firearms to Mexican Drug Organizations and House Blocks Gun-Sale Reporting Regulation

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Friday, April 1, 2011
Author: 
Bruce Zagaris
Volume: 
27
Issue: 
4
Abstract: 
On January 25, 2011, a federal grand jury in Phoenix, Arizona returned multi-count indictment in five cases against 34 defendants accused of assisting Mexican Drug Trafficking Organizations with illegally trafficking firearms from the U.S. to Mexico. The indictment shows how easily drug traffickers buy firearms in the U.S. and export them to Mexico, notwithstanding the enormous harm caused in Mexico and increasingly in the U.S...(more)...