....also in todays Fort Worth Star-Telegram the only gun store in this entire country. Run by the Mexican military, it restricts purchases of such models to police departments. The ones we can buy are over there, Merino said, pointing across the store to the deer rifles and small handguns, no larger than a .380 caliber. Yet Merino has gotten little traction trying to marshal a campaign for looser gun laws through his Facebook group, Mexico Armado (Mexico Armed). I’ve tried to contact congressmen, senators. They never respond, said Merino, a Mexican military veteran who works as a private security consultant. At this moment there are few of us, but when we have built a movement and we have votes, they’re going to have to pay attention to us. If, to some, the relatively lax gun laws in the United States seem to be out of whack with those of other industrialized nations, frustrated activists such as Merino say Mexico’s tight regulations are even further out of whack with his country’s heavily armed reality. Nowhere has this been more evident recently than in the mafia-plagued western state of Michoacan, where the government has tried to contain the spread of vigilante militias in recent months by organizing them into rural defense forces with offers of a one-time amnesty for their unregistered (i.e., illegal) guns.
Posted on: Sat, 05 Jul 2014 21:29:14 +0000
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