American Guns in Mexico

In 2009, we reported on the large number of guns being bought legally in the United States and smuggled across the border into Mexico, where they are arming the drug cartels that are terrorizing the country. Today, the Washington Post published an year long investigation into the issue, tracing the guns used in Mexican cartel violence to specific dealers in the United States, most of them located in Texas. Read the article from the December 13, 2010 issue of the Washington Post here. And below watch the video story we produced for the New York Times in April 2009.