We had heard rumors of this before on gun boards. And also a mention in the press a bit back. Now, the Houston Chronicle is in on it: Success on the front lines of a government blitz on gunrunners supplying Mexican drug cartels with Houston weaponry hinges on logging heavy miles and knocking on countless […]

Fact Check on gun traced in Mexico.

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

After a bit of a lull, the Mexican Gun Canard is back. The LAT parrots the whole machine guns coming from gun shows thing, which is false.

Factcheck asks why more gun in Mexico aren’t traced. They say it’s because the system isn’t in English. Odd. Also it’s because a lot of guns come in from Mexico’s southern border.

Bill Conroy: Experts suggest Mexican weapons-bust press conference may have been staged event […] there is just one problem with this narrative. According to U.S. law enforcers, specifically the ATF, the captured weapon is not what it appears to be, or at least what it was purported to be by the Mexican police commander. In […]

Sig Sauer 226 Blackwater edition. Not to be confused with the Xe edition. Ugly ass golden guns. Ruger report.

RICHARD S. DUNHAM, Houston Chronicle: Amid a wave of publicity about drug-related gun violence along the Mexican border and police killings in U.S. cities, an increasing number of Americans oppose new government efforts to regulate guns. Recent nonpartisan polls show shrinking support for new gun-control measures and strong public sentiment for enforcing existing laws instead. […]

PJTV parrots the Mexican Gun Canard? Anyway, the big issue is the press reporting that machine guns and bazookas are coming from US gun shows. We know that’s not the case since those are banned here. Even ATF says the weapons are coming from Mexico’s southern border.

Lost in the whole Mexican Gun Canard thing is this bit of truth from ridefast: Even if every single gun, knife and throw able rock in Mexico came from a single gun shop in southern California, it does not justify one more gun restricting law in the United States.

The president of Mexico issued some demands for US gun laws: * Ban on semi-automatic rifles * Gun owner registry * One gun-a-month * Enact Mexican gun laws in the United States Obama blames the US for all Mexico’s problems. Of course, we know the issue is grossly overstated. David Hardy looks at factcheck.org’s analysis: […]

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

JOHN LOTT: ABC’s Shameful ‘20/20′ Experiment It opens with an interesting bit. Lott notes that gun control activists appear desperate. After all, why else would they fabricate a piece such as the 20/20 bit? Or, for that matter, bitterly cling to the Mexican Gun Canard?

Or pantalones mierda histeria Despite being thoroughly debunked, the Mexican Gun Canard continues: Fox News already debunked the claim that 90% of the guns involved in Mexico’s drug war come from the United States. Facts aside, the press onslaught continues in a new push for gun control. The fact is that out of 29,000 firearms […]

More on the Mexican Gun Canard.

AK 47 made of bacon. China’s QBZ-95 Linoge gets his AR on. Mexican army using HK32

The VPC issues a comprehensive study of how the U.S. civilian firearms market contributes to the ongoing drug-related violence in Mexico. Summing up Google searches, no doubt. Anyway, this one is easy because it comes pre-debunked.

FoxNews dispels the myth that 90% of Mexican crime guns come from the US: There’s just one problem with the 90 percent “statistic” and it’s a big one: It’s just not true. In fact, it’s not even close. By all accounts, it’s probably around 17 percent. What’s true, an ATF spokeswoman told FOXNews.com, in a […]

Don’t tell Yon, but I’d say a fair amount of Mexican AK-47s are coming from that Venezuelan factory.

A bit back I mentioned Michael Yon’s falling for the Mexican Gun Canard. He continues to parrot that line. If you disagree with him and use facts and reason and stuff, you are a fanatic. UJ tells Yon to stop digging, which is good advice when you’re in a hole.

Seen at PGP’s: As the issue of Mexican violence continues to boil over, it has become clear that for many anti-gun politicians, the war on drugs and the war on gun owners’ rights are the same thing.

Alberto Gonzales (you remember him?) advocates a Southern Strategy (RACIST!!!) to keep Mexico secure. Blames the nonexistent gun show loophole. The other biased Washington paper says that Hezbollah is using the same routes as Mexican drug gangs. Scary, if true. ATF testified that the case of assault weapons flowing into Mexico was overstated. Now, a […]

BBC: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is pledging further effort to help Mexico in its anti-drugs campaign. Mrs Clinton said the use of military-style assault weapons was a particular concern, and she would discuss reimposing a ban on their sale. A previous US decision to lift a ban on such sales had been a […]

Paul Helmke of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Ownership advocates that the US should adopt some Mexican gun laws: Sebastian reminds Paul that this would amount to a sweeping gun ban.

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 […]

More misrepresentation that rocket launchers are heading into Mexico from the US. Insty also says: If rocket launchers and grenades are making it into Mexico from the United States, it’s because they’re being sold out the back door of military and police armories, since civilian gun stores don’t sell them. Say, anyone know the rate […]

Scary: Thousands of Mexican soldiers pour into the country’s most violent city in crackdown on drug gangs

The NYT dutifully parrots the Mexican gun canard. It’s dogma. Also, our old friend ATF Special Agent Thomas G. Mangan is showing up again. It’s like there is this concerted effort at disinformation. Mangan stuff here and here.

SIH: At a press conference announcing the arrests, Holder also suggested that re-instituting a U.S. ban on the sale of assault weapons would help reduce the bloodshed in Mexico, where last year 6,000 people were killed in drug-related violence. Ah, the Mexican gun canard rears its head once again. I told you it was dogma […]

Or is it ignorance? CNN would have you believe you can walk right into a local gun shop or gun show and buy a bazooka. To ship to Mexico, of course. This Mexican gun canard is now officially dogma. For a reason.