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Transnational Thursday for January 25, 2024

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Mexico is very much on the side of the USA blue tribe as far as gun control issues go because the Mexican government blames the purchase of civilian legal semi-automatic rifles as the key source of arms for the cartels, and ignores the cartels having access to massive amounts of weapons that aren't civilian legal in the US to avoid confronting its own corruption issues. We can expect them to periodically engage in normal American gun-control side antics like suing gun makers.

Now if weapons in Mexican military armories didn't tend to go missing and turn up in cartel hands, they might have a point. Banning AR-15s would have no effect on American gun deaths but if the Mexican army didn't sell weapons to its own primary opponents would probably meaningfully reduce cartel firepower.

I can see a case in Mexico suing United States. But not manufacturers.