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Thursday, November 10, 2016

Arms smuggling

Border gun-smuggling arrests ‘just scratching the surface’”


11xx16-news-border guns1Ammunition-smuggling busts at Arizona ports of entry — like this one – jumped 600 percent over the past two years, U.S. Customs and Border Protection statistics show. A total of 54,000 rounds and 25 firearms were seized at the state's ports in fiscal year 2016, statistics obtained by the Arizona Daily Star through a public records request show.
But that's a small fraction of what’s actually getting across the border.
“It’s just scratching the surface,” said Jose Wall, a retired Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agent who worked on arms trafficking into Mexico from 2000 to 2013.

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