In an article published by Newsweek on August 7, 2024, Dan Gooding AND Billal Rahman make some incendiary claims. From the article:
Immigration into the United States is being partly driven by gun violence — which itself is fueled by firearms bought in the U.S. and illegally transported back to Mexico by organized crime networks.
Over 200,000 firearms found in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Mexico between 2015 and 2022 were linked back to the U.S., recent data from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) shows.
The 200,000 number seemed interesting. This correspondent went to the ATF website to look at the original data from the ATF on traces. The ATF website provides links for traces of Central America and Mexico. The data is given by year for Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Panama. Only seven years of data is given for Nicaragua. For Mexico, the data is linked to five-year aggregates, but the total for each year is given. It is not hard to dig out how many firearms were shown to have come from the United States each year. The data is divided into various categories. A major division is U.S. Sourced Firearms and Undetermined Source Country for Firearms.
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