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All the cartels in Mexico buy their guns from America and nobody is going to jail over it.

People do in fact get sent to prison for that, straw purchases are a federal felony. Not all of them actually get caught, which is true of any crime.

Except when the ATF does it, no big deal

More information about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATF_gunwalking_scandal

Kind of like the CIA importing heroin and cocaine. The laws cover this scenario but we have a problem with especially poor enforcement when the crimes are committed by parts of the government.

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