Myth: The United States is the source of 90% of drug syndicate guns in Mexico
Fact: This is an often misquoted data point from the BATFE, who said 90% of the
firearms that have been interdicted in transport to Mexico or recovered in Mexico came
from the United States. Thus the 90% number includes only the firearms American and
Mexican police stop in transport.70
Fact: The original number was derived from the number of firearms successfully traced,
not the total number of firearms. For 2007-2008, Mexican officials recovered
approximately 29,000 firearms from crime scenes and asked for BATFE traces of 11,000.
Of those, the BATFE could trace roughly 6,000 of which 5,114 were confirmed to have
come from the United States. Thus, 83% of the crime guns recovered in Mexico have not
been or cannot be traced to America.71
Fact: Mexican drug syndicates can buy guns anywhere. For the relatively underpowered
civilian rifles coming from the United States, drug runners would pay between 300% and
400% above the market price. Thus they can and are buying guns around the world.72
Fact: Mexican drug cartels – with a $40 billion in annual revenues – have military
armament that includes hand grenades, grenade launchers, armor-piercing munitions,
antitank rockets and assault rifles smuggled from Central American countries.73 These
are infantry weapons bought from around the world and not civilian “assault weapon”
rifles from the United States.
http://www.gunfacts.info/pdfs/gun-facts/5.1/gun-facts-5.1-screen.pdf
Looks like he is full of shit
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