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2024-04-19 12:02:34
He arms trafficking from the United States to Mexico has found new platforms to carry out its negotiations, since In applications like Tinder it happens as follows.
A study on the illegal trade in digital media made by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) has uncovered the North American nation as a substantial agent of the problem.
Well, according to the data collected around the weapons trafficking on the Tinder, TikTok and Instagram applicationsthe citizens of United Statess are leaders in this criminal activity.
About how this constant crime occurs, and, unfortunately increasingly, on social networks, we tell you what the study specialists discovered.
Social networks are involved in arms trafficking from the United States to Mexico (Rami Al-zayat / Unsplash)
This is how arms trafficking from the United States to Mexico occurs through Tinder
According to the ATF study, currently the arms trafficking It has more popularity and sales consolidation in its online mode.
Well, criminals, both sellers and buyers, They have found an optimal space in Tinder, TikTok and Instagram to keep your records and important identity details unnoticed.
Regarding products, the study indicates that the most demanded weapons in this traffic from the United States to Mexico are the guns, since they represent 56% of the total negotiations.
And these are followed by rifles and shotguns that They arrive in the Mexican region through Tindermainly, for the organized crime sector, or, they stay in the United States for shootings in the nation.
Therefore, it requires the ATF studyarms trafficking with social networks as a commercial channel, has achieved at least 230 thousand fire devices have been sold illegally.
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Arms trafficking from the United States to Mexico (PATRICK T. FALLON / AFP)
Arms trafficking figures on Tinder point to the United States as the main culprit
As had already been anticipated in different scenarios, the study on arms trafficking in Mexico on apps like Tinder, declare that The United States is primarily responsible for the danger.
And the documentation of the National Evaluation of Commerce and Trafficking in Firearms states that the 95% of those who commit this offense towards the tricolor territory are american citizens.
Likewise, there are 3 entities that lead arms trafficking from the United States to Mexico and most of them do not have permits to sell them:
- Texas with 42.5%
- Arizona with 25.2%
- Florida with 13.7%
Gun trafficking is a huge problem in the United States that threatens the security of our nation. […] For 20 years we had no data on this growing problem, but thanks to ATF, Dettelbach, and the Joe Biden administration, we are finally moving forward and finding solutions.
Lindsay Nichols, Giffords Law Center
2024-04-19 12:02:34