{"id":112850,"date":"2025-10-24T13:24:38","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T18:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=112850"},"modified":"2025-10-24T13:25:42","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T18:25:42","slug":"112850","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=112850","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sharyl Attkisson: Mexican government bought US guns used in cartel crimes<\/a><\/p>\n

For years, escalating violence and bloodshed in Mexico was blamed on U.S. gun smuggling and lax firearm laws. American-made weapons litter Mexican crime scenes.<\/p>\n

But what if the truth is far different? A former federal agent\u00a0is flipping the script with a jaw-dropping twist: Many of the U.S. guns used in cartel crimes were bought by Mexico\u2019s own government.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Deadly shootouts and clashes with police are a daily reality among Mexico\u2019s killer cartels. As a result, Mexico\u2019s gun homicide rate is two to three times worse than the U.S., with over 21,700 gun murders in 2022. It\u2019s a flashpoint in the debate over firearms and crime and who\u2019s to blame. Mexico and gun control advocates have long blamed smuggling and America\u2019s loose gun laws.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the story John Dodson says he was told throughout his 15 years as a special agent with the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. The narrative was, \u201cWe are to blame. Our civilian firearms market, our right to bear arms, is to blame for the violence in Mexico and along the southwest border,\u201d Dodson said.<\/p>\n

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But that narrative, he says, has been upended by the surprising truth: \u201cThe vast majority of crime guns recovered in Mexico are purchased directly by the Mexican government,\u201d he said.<\/div>\n
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Tracing data confirms it. Most of the U.S. firearms recovered from Mexican crime scenes weren\u2019t trafficked or smuggled. The Mexican government legally purchased them.\u00a0 Exact numbers are hard to come by, but a 2023 State Department report confirms the U.S. approved $147.7 million in small\u2013 arms sales to Mexico from companies like Sig Sauer and Glock. Still more weapons are supplied through U.S. Foreign Military Sales.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we first started telling the Mexicans, \u2018You have to do something to stop the drug trafficking coming north of the border,\u2019 the Mexican authorities needed resources and funds to do that,\u201d Dodson said. \u201cSo we started funding these operations \u2026 providing them with hundreds of millions of dollars to purchase equipment \u2014 much of that firearms.\u201d<\/p>\n

He says he queried ATF\u2019s gun-tracing network. And he saw that most of the U.S. guns turning up at cartel crime scenes were originally sold to the Mexican government. Dodson said he was \u201cflabbergasted.\u201d<\/p>\n

We reviewed data from 2016 to 2023. It confirms the Mexican government was the top buyer of U.S. guns later traced to crime scenes in Mexico. One document shows the Mexican military, listed as \u201cdealer,\u201d purchased more than 2,000 from 2016 through 2021.<\/p>\n

A 2023 document sources a year\u2019s worth of U.S. guns from Mexican crime scenes, with 779 of them originally bought by the Mexican government. No other source is anywhere close.<\/p>\n

The State Department, which oversees foreign weapons sales, declined our interview request and wouldn\u2019t answer any of our questions. We also couldn\u2019t get any information from the Justice Department or the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. The State Department has told Congress that its priority is national security.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom what I know,\u201d Dodson said, \u201cthe amount of those firearms that are ending up being diverted to the black market \u2014 I would cease and desist all transactions with the Mexican government when it comes to firearms.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Do tell….. Sharyl Attkisson: Mexican government bought US guns used in cartel crimes For years, escalating violence and bloodshed in Mexico was blamed on U.S. gun smuggling and lax firearm laws. American-made weapons litter Mexican crime scenes. But what if the truth is far different? A former federal agent\u00a0is flipping the script with a jaw-dropping … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[107,9,50,97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-answer-o-the-day","category-enemies-foreign-domestic","category-goobermint","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=112850"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112853,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112850\/revisions\/112853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=112850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=112850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=112850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}