Bigger than two thirds of guns recovered at Mexican crime scenes get in the U.S. For a protracted time, Mexico has struggled with staggering ranges of gun violence fueled in tall phase by weapons trafficked all over its northern border.
Now an investigation printed by The Dialog has arrived at a brand new estimate of the scale of this illicit gun change between the U.S. and Mexico in 2022: 135,000 guns.
Investigative journalist Sean Campbell and Topher McDougal, a professor of industrial pattern on the University of San Diego, spent a year combing thru a pair of databases and court docket paperwork and conducting interviews to clutch how the waft of guns works.
Their investigation finds the put apart in the U.S. the guns are coming from, what affect these American guns are having in Mexico, and one of many top ways refined it’s for American regulation enforcement agencies to prosecute those trafficking guns all over the border.
Steal heed to Campbell and McDougal discuss their investigation on The Dialog Weekly podcast.
You may well be taught the corpulent investigation here.
This episode of The Dialog Weekly became once written and produced by Mend Mariwany and Gemma Ware. Mixing and sound get by Eloise Stevens and theme tune by Neeta Sarl.
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