Take the Mexican military 'losing' huge numbers of weapons, and add this:
The Central American countries, for example, often ask U.S. officials to trace the origins of suspected U.S.-supplied weapons. Over a four-year period, for example, 27,000 trace requests came in, and the federal agencies were able to show that about a third were U.S.-supplied.
The GAO also determined that not all are illegally trafficked, with some coming in legally because those countries do not manufacture firearms.
In one stunning section of the new report, the GAO said that many firearms go to police and military and are sometimes “rented” to drug gangs.
“Although U.S. agencies have no reliable data on criminals’ acquisition of firearms in Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, U.S. and foreign law enforcement officials said their experience had shown that criminals in those countries purchase firearms illegally in local black markets, steal them from legal firearm owners, and rent or borrow them from legal owners,” said the report.
Throws a bit of a wrench in the 'Iron River' bullshit.
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