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For: The opinion Updated 12 Apr 2022, 17: 05 pm EDT
Heading to the next 12 in April, when the hearing on Mexico’s lawsuit against US arms manufacturers, Smith & Wesson, Century Arms, Colt ´s Manufacturing, Glock, Ruger and Barrett, in the neighboring country warn that the caliber sniper rifle.50, one of the deadliest weapons in the world, are becoming more common in the kid organized menu.
Hence there is in the Mexican territory a concern for the use of this powerful weapon of war capable of firing 70 bullets per minute with a range of 2 thousand 500 meters.
The Barrett .50 is considered the most powerful rifle in the world. It pierces armored structures and even cement and is capable of shooting down aircraft, as was experienced in 2015, when a group of drug traffickers shot down a Mexican army helicopter.
The .50-caliber rifle has been center stage for some of Mexico’s worst moments of cartel conflict, but many of the American citizens who traffic the weapons face little punishment due to weak laws in the United States. https://t.co/uwgm5ZEz1O— VICE (@VICE) April 4, 2016
According to the magazine Vice, . caliber sniper rifles stand out from the rest of the arsenal seized in Michoacán, ground zero of one of the bloodiest cartel wars of Mexico.
“That is the highest caliber we have had”, said Pedro Gutiérrez, head of the General Coordination of Expert Services in Michoacán.
Like Gutiérrez, Tim Sloan, head of the Mexico branch of the US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), confessed his concern, mainly because most of these rifles come from US gun shops.
Sloan accepts that the Mexican government has mot ives to worry about these weapons, because “it is well known that at least the 50 percent of the weapons in Mexico come from the United States”.
Similarly, David Pucino, Deputy Lead Counsel The Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence in America, currently “There is no federal law that prohibits the trafficking of firearms, which means that the cases that are built for the trafficking of firearms firearms must be based on other laws”, quoted the magazine.
The problem lies in the concept that the United States does not sell weapons clandestinely, so there is no black market in the eyes of justice ; the acquisition of weapons occurs through third parties who buy weapons in a number of legal stores that exist.
Hence Pucino himself emphasizes the need for “Having a federal law that expressly prohibits firearms trafficking, that has force, would really help a lot, both in terms of allowing law enforcement to dedicate resources to it and allowing prosecutors build those cases in a solid way without having to do this kind of creative work ”.
Even, criticizes the president of the United States. , Joe Biden, who the publication claims has remained relatively quiet on international arms trafficking, instead advocating universal background checks in his State of the Union address of 2022.
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