14312: Lemieux: Nation: excerpt pertaining to Haiti (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: JD Lemieux <lxhaiti@yahoo.com>

Title: Guns 'R' U.S. .
Subject(s): FIREARMS
Source: Nation, 12/2/2002, Vol. 275 Issue 19, p20, 3/4p
Author(s): Montero, David
Abstract: Presents a list of the groups of gun smugglers
and terrorists which have bought guns in the United States.
Consideration of the laxity of U.S. gun law enforcement;
Popularity of Florida among gun smugglers from Haiti;

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Guns 'R' U.S.
Terrorists and gun smugglers like to buy guns in America
because of the abundant inventory at gun shops and gun
shows, and the laxity of US gun-law enforcement. Here are a
few examples:

Haiti: Florida is also popular with Haitian gun smugglers.
According to the ATF's Miami office, 25 percent of its gun
smuggling cases in the past two years have involved guns
destined for Haiti, making it the number-one foreign
destination for guns trafficked out of the area. One bust
in 1995 uncovered 15,000 rounds of ammunition and 260
firearms, purchased from gun dealers in Fort Lauderdale. In
another incident, two men were arrested after they stuffed
110 semiautomatic pistols inside turkey carcasses and tried
to ship them to Haiti, which has long harbored paramilitary
groups and death squads. The guns had been legally
purchased from gun shops in Pompano Beach.


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