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May 5, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET
Members of the Salvadoran armed forces on patrol in San Rafael Cedros.
By Ioan Grillo
Photographs by Adriana Zehbrauskas
Mr. Grillo is a writer who has covered gang violence and organized crime in Mexico and elsewhere in Latin America for two decades.
EL MOZOTE, El Salvador â The village of El Mozote sits in the department of Morazán in the northeastern highlands of El Salvador near the border with Honduras, a huddle of concrete block homesteads, many of loggers and farmers, nestled between fertile peaks rich with pineapple, coffee and sugar cane.
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Arms trafficking from the U.S. to Mexico has given unimaginable power to criminal organizations. The iron river, as Ioan Grillo refers to this phenomenon in his literary gem, “Blood Gun Money: How America Arms Gangs and Cartels,” is a deady, blood-stained multimillion-dollar industry that American politicians have not dared to regulate as they should.
On April 21, Mexico’s president said that he hopes Joe Biden’s efforts toward stronger regulations in the U.S. will be successful, and the defense secretary explained that greater effort is being made at customs controls in the north to stop the smuggling that passes through the Mexican border. I fear that this will not be enough, and Grillo’s book makes that clear. But let there be no confusion: it has been evident for a long time that the problem lies in the U.S.
US Firearm Sales See Small Year-Over-Year Increase to 1.8 Mil Firearms Ammoland Inc. Posted on
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U.S.A. -(AmmoLand.com)- Small Arms Analytics & Forecasting (SAAF) estimates April 2021 US firearms unit sales at just over 1.8 million units, a year-over-year increase of 2.1% from April 2020.
Detailed data by firearms type and state are available for purchase at SmallArmsAnalytics.com/shop/.
SAAF’s firearms unit sales estimates are based on raw data taken from the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS), adjusted for checks unlikely to be related to end-user firearms sales. For example, while the FBI’s raw numbers (for April, 3,485,016) increased year-over-year by 21.1%, this is largely due to background checks unrelated to end-user sales.
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