Gun Trafficking and the Southwest Border
Contents
Overview of Gun Trafficking from the United States to Mexico
..................................................1
U.S. Gun Control Statutes and an Inter-American, Anti-Gun
Trafficking Convention...................3
National Firearms Act of 1934 (NFA)....................................................................................4
The Gun Control Act of 1968 (GCA)
....................................................................................4
Arms Export Control Act of 1976 (AECA)............................................................................5
Export Administration Regulations
(EAR).............................................................................6
OAS Convention on Illicit Firearms Trafficking (CIFTA)
......................................................7
ATF Enforcement of U.S. Gun Laws
...........................................................................................8
ATF Compliance Inspections of Licensed Gun
Dealers..........................................................9
Straw Purchases and the Ant Run
........................................................................................10
Multiple Handgun Sales Reports
.........................................................................................
11
Gun Shows and Private Firearm Transfers
...........................................................................
11
Semiautomatic Assault Weapons
.........................................................................................12
Fully Automatic
Machineguns.............................................................................................13
Project Gunrunner: ATF Efforts to Suppress Southwest
Border Gun Trafficking..................13
Funding for Gunrunner
.................................................................................................13
ATF Firearms Tracing for
Mexican
Authorities..............................................................14
Merida and Appropriations
Authorizations for ATF
.......................................................17
Prosecution of Firearms Trafficking Cases and Related Statutes
................................................17
McAllen, Texas—Possession and Receiving of Illegal
Firearms ..........................................18
Brownsville, Texas—Conspiracy to Make False Statements
and Straw Purchases................19
Victoria, Texas—Smuggling of Firearms
.............................................................................19
U.S. Law Enforcement Challenges and Southwest Border Gun Trafficking
...............................20
Previously Proposed Anti-Gun Trafficking
Measures.................................................................23
Anti-Gun Trafficking Penalties Enhancement Act of 2007
(S. 77 and H.R. 1895) ................24
Detectives Nemorin and Andrews Anti-Gun Trafficking Act
of 2008 (H.R. 4818)................24
End Gun Trafficking Act (S.
3634)......................................................................................25
Policy Questions Regarding Southwest Border Gun Trafficking
................................................26
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