Once again, the myth that 90% of guns in Mexico come from American gun shows is busted.

In comments, Sebastian takes the press to task. It’s pretty funny how they don’t think of the obvious. And Rusty has more.

Jake: Notice the very important but understated qualifier in that second paragraph: “three out of four guns used in crimes in Mexico and submitted for tracing“ Meanwhile, it’s not just Texas: Florida among the biggest sources of guns used in crimes in Mexico

I thought those mortars and machine guns were coming from US gun shows?

Former Ambassadors to Mexico say we should pass an assault weapons ban.

Bob: an ATF official testified in Congress that only eight percent of weapons recovered in Mexico came through licensed U.S. gun dealers. I thought it was 90%? That’s what the press, the administration, and the anti-gunners (but I repeat myself) tell me?

Ted Novin: The report, which NSSF is still reviewing, appears to be rife with error. It looks like GAO may have hired a Violence Policy Center shill to write parts of it. Of course, it’s not like the VPC has anything else to do.

David Codrea: Mexican warehouse exposes gun grabber cartel lies

I’m guessing they got that airsoft gun at a gun show? And ATF probably can’t trace it.

Investors Business Daily calls it bogus. Wayne LaPierre: They’re trying to piggyback this whole phony issue on the back of the tragedy in Mexico

Once more, with feeling. Yon is still bitterly clinging to the Mexican Gun Canard. When he’s not calling us fanatics for pointing out facts and stuff, he’s happily parroting talking points that have been proven false. The latest is Yon’s re-publishing a rebuttal to a FoxNews piece by Todd Bensman. You see, you should take […]

Steve debunks the canard by actually looking at the confiscated arms. The LAW, M249 beltfed machinegun, and the fragmentation grenades are not coming from US gun shows. Meanwhile, this is brilliant. You see, the guns do come from here. Except we are smuggling them from US gun shows to Guatemala. Then Guatemalans smuggle them in […]

Don: if you were a leader in a Mexican cartel with access to rifles, ammunition, grenades and RPG’s from Mexican military arsenals, M16 rifles and ammunition from scavengers all over South America who have old American military exports to sell on the cheap, and a dozen other sources . . . would you be sending […]

According to polls, the American people are not buying it: The poll, which was conducted March 20-23 and has a margin of error of plus-or-minus 1.5 percentage points, asked 4,523 likely voters: “Mexican officials, gun control groups and officials at the Department of Homeland Security claim drug cartels are crossing the U.S. border in order […]

Once more, it’s misleading. The other biased Washington paper reports: Mexico has long tried to get the United States to curtail the number of guns – many purchased legally – that wind up south of the border, where gun laws are much stricter. The State Department says firearms obtained in the United States account for […]

A look at Mexican gun laws in action. Meanwhile, insty notes that the canard of Military hardware flowing into Mexico from the US is being parroted by the press. The LA Times (yes, that LA Times) who is known to shill for any anti-gun cause notes: Most of these weapons are being smuggled from Central […]

You would expect a retired general to know guns. You’d be wrong. He does, however, know his PSH: Mexican law enforcement authorities and soldiers face heavily armed drug gangs with high-powered military automatic weapons. Perhaps 90% of these weapons are smuggled across the US border. They are frequently purchased from licensed US gun dealers in […]

Suddenly, it’s like a lot of blogs are paying attention to the issue. Any way, a round up of the ATF shenanigans: A shocking admission: U.S. admits that Mexican cartels get military weaponry from Central America. That, of course, didn’t fit the narrative so they had to make reality fit the narrative. Pattycakes has a […]

Been going on since 2008, which, IIRC, is about the time press started parroting the Mexican gun canard. Checking archives, looks like the canard started in October 2007. Senator Grassley calls for independent investigation of ATF.

Joe and Sebastian on why the Mexican gun canard. And: You’d think if this were such a huge problem, you’d be able to find at least one stash of firearms being smuggled, let alone being able to find a single gun. You would think that. Instead, we can find evidence of raids on police armories.

As long as the photo-op scares you Ahead of G20, Toronto police display “weapons” confiscated from protesters. Trouble is, most weren’t taken from protesters. And some were taken from role-playing fantasy gamers. Of course, police and the press like to parade around toys and claim they’re weapons all the time. Particularly, airsoft toys.

Drug control breeds gun control. The ever evolving Mexican Gun Canard goes through another iteration.

ATF and other federal agents are going to the border: Hundreds of federal agents, along with high-tech surveillance gear and drug-sniffing dogs, are headed to the Southwest to help Mexico fight drug cartels and keep violence from spilling across the U.S.-Mexico border, Obama administration officials said Tuesday Good. Meanwhile, other groups join in the chorus […]

It keeps coming. Except that it’s not real. Testimony from law enforcement officials concludes that, generally, military hardware is not flowing into Mexico from the United States. We gun nuts have been saying that for years. More testimony here. The experts on the panel do not conclude that more gun control is the answer. But […]

The 15 year time to crime stat on guns discredits the DOJ’s Mexican Gun Canard.

The Mexican Gun Canard. The WaPo brings it in, poorly. The NYT parrots the same bogus numbers. And a proposal that FFLs report bulk rifle purchases.

The Mexican gun canard is in full swing again. It’s like there’s a narrative or something. And the inadequacy of U.S. efforts to stop the illegal trafficking? Sounds to me like the inadequacy is from the folks who keep letting the guns get in the country. You know what would stop that? Some sort of […]

First, he calls the gun blogs fanatics because they dare point out that he was wrong about the whole Mexican Gun Canard. Now, he calls the milbloggers milkooks.

NSSF has a response to parroting the Mexican Gun Canard.

Now, it’s the Jamaican Gun Canard. It’s much more exotic than the Mexican Gun Canard.