I called up Champe Barton from over at the Trace to talk about a totally new way to think about gun control. But honestly, I can’t shake the very first thing he told me—a fact that seems to explain just how hard it is to prevent gun violence in the first place: “If you want to buy a gun in Mexico, there’s one gun store, and it’s on an army base. There’s just one, in the entire country.
proved to a judge is that their allegations are plausible. If you look at the data on gun violence in Mexico relative to gun production in the U.S., you can see a pretty clear relationship between gun homicides on Mexican soil and U.S. gun production. As gun production goes up in the U.S., gun homicides go up in Mexico, generally. The central point is that there is a clear relationship here between what goes on in the U.S.
There was a time in the U.S. in which that comparison was almost perfect, because it used to be that when a firearm was traced, the ATF needed to pick up a phone and dial the manufacturer and inform them,And then they would have to say,, and they would go on down the chain like that.