What Next - Mexico Is Full Of American Guns. So the Country’s Suing.
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🗓️ 14 March 2024
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Summary
How Mexico’s $10 billion lawsuit against American gun manufacturers and distributors could pave the way for new gun control tactics in the U.S. and abroad.
Guest: Champe Barton, reporter for The Trace.
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| 1:11.0 | But honestly, I can't shake the very first thing he told me. A fact that seems to explain just how hard it is to prevent gun violence in the first place. |
| 1:21.0 | If you want to buy a gun in Mexico, there's one gun store and it's on an army base. |
| 1:26.0 | Hold it one gun store? |
| 1:28.0 | There's just one in the entire country. |
| 1:41.0 | I live in a country, the United States, where there are twice as many gun stores as there are post offices. So it kind of blows my mind that just across the border things work like this. |
| 1:44.9 | To get a gun legally in Mexico, you go through months of background checks. |
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