According to US gun control agency ATF, over half of the 'crime guns' recovered and traced in Central America are sourced from the United States.
FILE PHOTO: AR-15 style rifles are displayed for sale at Firearms Unknown, a gun store in Oceanside, California, U.S., April 12, 2021. REUTERS/Bing Guan/File Photo
"It's called the iron river and it's flooding countries to the south," Elizabeth Burke of U.S. non-profit Global Action on Gun Violence said at an event organized by the Center for American Progress in Washington. "Why would we be arming the very people that we say we are fighting?" he said, calling for more controls at the start of the supply chains.
U.S government figures show last year that income from legal firearm shipments to Latin America increased 8%, with most sales going to Brazil, Mexico, Guatemala and Colombia.
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