American Guns Are Not to Blame for Mexico’s Cartel Problem

President Trump’s recent deal with Mexico has that country deploying 10,000 troops to the border. But America’s commitments in agreement have gone insufficiently examined.

“For the first time, the U.S. government will work jointly to avoid the entry of guns to Mexico,” Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum announced to reporters.

That promise is in response to a years-old narrative that America’s love affair with guns helped create Mexican cartel monsters who poison Americans with fentanyl. This claim has been relentlessly advanced by Democratic lawmakers and progressive gun-control advocates. Trump’s recent concession to work on the “problem” has added heft to Mexico’s claim that it has nothing to do with its own cartel crisis—as when Mexico recently filed a $10 billion lawsuit against American gun manufacturers for allegedly turning a blind eye to gun smugglers...

The truth is that Mexico’s drug cartels have, for many years now, equipped themselves with military weaponry stolen or bought from the stores of Mexico’s own corrupted military and similarly from the armories of corrupt officials in Central American and South American nations, which buy large amounts of older, hand-me-down military equipment from foreign nations around the world...

“That sh*t is not coming from the United States. You can’t get those weapons systems from American gun stores,” said retired Texas Department of Public Safety Intelligence Captain Jaeson Jones...

If The Drug Cartels Are Terrorist Groups, Mexico Is Their State Sponsor, The Federalist, 20 February 2025.

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