President Obama Meets Mexican President Calderon: With Guns Drawn?

Ray Walser / April 17, 2009

Today’s Washington Post reports an often heard but highly inaccurate statement: 90% of guns employed in the drug cartel killing spree come from the U.S.  It is a factoid prominently stuck in the minds of leaders and the media, some of whom use this misrepresentation in support of reimposing extensive federal gun restrictions.

The Post reports that Mexican law enforcement seized 35,000 weapons between December 2006 and the present. Of that total, the Post reports that 13,149 weapons were then reported to the U.S. by our southern neighbor. That leaves 21,851 guns for which Mexican authorities have not submitted information to the U.S., probably because it is apparent that those 21,851 guns were not manufactured in the U.S. (more…)