Awash in Weapons, Mexico Only Has One Store Where You Can Legally Buy a Gun Tim Johnson - McClatchyDC
go to original August 25, 2015

Mexico's only gun store (Tech Insider)

Mexico has some of the most restrictive gun laws in the world. If any of the nation's citizens want to buy firearms, there's only one store where they can do it legally. It's on a sprawling military base and run by the army.

That, however, hasn't stopped Mexicans from acquiring firearms. The country is awash in illegal guns, many of them assault weapons in the hands of merciless criminal gangs. President Felipe Calderon says authorities have seized more than 140,000 weapons since he came to office in late 2006. Many of them, Mexican officials assert, were purchased in the United States.

Nothing highlights the cultural and legal differences between Mexico and the United States as starkly as Mexico's lone gun shop, whose ponderous name is the Directorate of Arms and Munitions Sales.

In contrast, the four U.S. border states — California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas — have 20,834 firearms dealers licensed by the U.S. government, according to Marc Willis, a spokesman for the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

...The differences between U.S. and Mexican gun laws date to the days when founding fathers north of the border saw armed militias as a necessity to guarantee freedom while Spanish rulers south of the border saw guns as a threat.

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