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US High School Students Selling Guns Bound for Cartels
Original: American High School Students Are Selling Guns Bound for Cartels
The New York Times reports that American high school students are being drawn into gun trafficking, selling firearms that end up in the hands of Mexican drug cartels. The report highlights how teenagers are recruited into smuggling networks moving weapons across the southern border, raising concern about the scale of illicit arms flows from the United States into Mexico.
Why now: The report sheds light on a surprising new dimension of cartel gun trafficking that has implications for US-Mexico relations and gun policy debates.
New York TimesMexican cartelsUnited StatesMexico
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- American High School Students Are Selling Guns Bound for Cartels · The New York Times
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