I found a great post over on The Firearms Blog showing why the Mexican drug cartels aren’t buying their guns from America…
http://hosted.verticalresponse.com/442059/100c35fa92/1641502434/35c8c21797/
It comes down to simple economics. Why would a drug cartel spend anywhere from $850.00 to $1,100.00 for a semi-automatic AR-15 when they could spent less than $100.00 on a fully automatic AK-47? Furthermore other countries are more than willing to sell the guns to Mexico whereas extra work must be done to get them from America.