have you ever served in the military? I don't think you have, because if you had, you'd know what kind of restrictions there are on the weapons in the armory. IF, a huge IF, a few members were dealing weapons, it would be highly unlikely that they could do more than 5 or 6 at a time. That is not enough to 'arm' the cartels.
There are numerous firearms manufacturers that are highly regulated due to the possibility of making auto firearms. It would be nearly impossible for any one of them to manufacture a batch of them to go south without SOMEONE alerting the ATF.
I've followed this story since it broke. My involvement in the gun rights community is pretty extensive. Your links completely gloss over the fact that the 90% figure comes from the only weapons that mexico bothered to give the US data on. It's pretty easy to make that come out the way you want it to.
maybe this 'story' would have more teeth in it if mexico allowed DoJ investigators complete and total access to all weapons recovered instead of piecemealing the specific data they want to achieve a desired result. THAT has nothing at all to do with your suggestion of my denial.
Probably in Belgium where FN (the current manufacturer of nearly ALL American military firearms) is located.
That was shown to be a misconception. Of the weapons that they report to us (about 20% of the captured weapons are ever even mentioned to us) 90% of those are from the US. But we have no way of knowing how many of the weapons the bad guys are using come from the US when they only report 20% or so of them.
