Louis E.V. Nevaer reports in the San Francisco Chronicle that American guns being smuggled into Mexico are helping fuel drug-related violence there. Mexico's military is searching southbound traffic along the border for shipments of weapons. U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez acknowledged the problem last month in Mexico saying, “We are concerned about the number of weapons coming into Mexico and Central America illegally from the United States. There is more that we can do, and we are looking to do, to try and stem the flow of illegal weapons into Mexico.”
According to Nevaer, Mexico's own gun laws are strict, with less than 6,000 legally registered guns in a country of 110 million people.
See: American guns help fuel Mexico's drug trade killings (SF Gate)
