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In reply to the discussion: When Men Hate Women: Femicide in Ciudad Juarez [View all]GreenStormCloud
(12,072 posts)The entire report is 83 pages. I am not going to devote that much time to an internet argument.
How many guns did the Mexican authorities confiscate? According to the GAO report, page 16: In 2008, of the almost 30,000 firearms that the Mexican Attorney Generals office said were seized, only around 7,200, or approximately a quarter, were submitted to ATF for tracing. http://www.gao.gov/assets/300/291223.pdf That is a direct quote from the GAO report.
Stratfor claims that the GAO report says that only 4,000 guns were capable of being traced. I was not able to find that in the GAO report so I will not use that number and use the 7,200 as capable of being traced.
That means that they didn't submit about 22,800 for tracing.
Of the 7,200 guns submitted for tracing, 87% were found to have come from the U.S., therefore 13% came from somewhere else. That is 936 guns came from somewhere else. I will round that to 900 since all of the other numbers are rounded off.
22,800 + 900 = 23,700 guns that came from somewhere else. That is 80% came from somewhere else.
Please notice that these are not NRA numbers, they come from the same GAO report that you are promoting.
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