#guns in Mexico

[mysharona1987]

If prosecutors will do this to a rich, famous Hollywood actor with plenty of resources and access to great, expensive and very meticulous lawyers, what do you think they do to regular poor people?

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Tracing guns from the U.S. to Mexico

by kpbsSanDiego

[reasonsforhope]

"Starting in July 2024, California will be the first state to charge an excise tax on guns and ammunition. The new tax – an 11% levy on each sale – will come on top of federal excise taxes of 10% or 11% for firearms and California’s [7.5]% sales tax (x).

The National Rifle Association has characterized California’s Gun Violence Prevention and School Safety Act as an affront to the Constitution. But the reaction from the gun lobby and firearms manufactures may hint at something else: the impact that the measure, which is aimed at reducing gun violence, may have on sales.

As a professor who studies the economics of violence and illicit trades at the University of San Diego’s Kroc School of Peace Studies, I think this law could have important ramifications.

One way to think about it is to compare state tax policies on firearms with those on alcohol and tobacco products. It’s not for nothing that these all appear in the name of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, also known as ATF...

The ATF focuses on those products because, while legal, they can cause significant harm to society – in the form of drunken driving, for example, or cancer-causing addictions. They also have a common history: All have been associated��with criminal organizations seeking to profit from illicit markets.

Alcohol and tobacco products are thus usually subject to state excise taxes. This policy is known as a “Pigouvian tax,” named after 20th-century British economist Arthur Pigou. By making a given product more expensive, such a tax leads people to buy less of it, reducing the harm to society while generating tax revenue that the state can theoretically use to offset those harms that still accrue.

California, for instance, imposes a US$2.87 excise tax on each pack of cigarettes. That tax is higher than the national average but much lower than New York’s $5.35 levy. California also imposed a vaping excise tax of 12.5% in 2021.

Of the three ATF product families, firearms have enjoyed an exemption from California excise taxes. Until now...

How Much Will the Policy Help?

It’s unclear how the new tax will affect gun violence. In theory, the tax should be highly effective. In 2023, some colleagues and I modeled the U.S. market for firearms and determined that for every 1% increase in price, demand decreases by 2.6%. This means that the market should be very sensitive to tax increases.

Using these estimates, another colleague recently estimated that the California excise tax would reduce gun sales by 30% to 44%. If applied across the country, the tax could generate an additional $1.5 billion to $1.9 billion in government revenue.

One possible problem will come from surrounding states: It’s already easy to illegally transport guns bought in Nevada, where laws are more lax, to the Golden State.

But there’s some evidence that suggests California’s stringent policies won’t be neutralized by its neighbors.

When the federal assault weapons ban expired in 2004, making it much easier to buy AR- and AK-style rifles across much of the U.S., gun murders across the border in Mexico skyrocketed. Two studies show the exception was the Mexican state of Baja California, right across the border with California, which had kept its state-level assault weapons ban in place.

Gun seizures in Mexico show that all four U.S. states bordering Mexico rank in the top five state sources of U.S.-sold guns in Mexico. But California contributes 75% less than its population and proximity would suggest.

So, California laws seem to already be making a difference in reducing gun violence. I believe the excise tax could accomplish still more. Other states struggling against the rising tide of guns will be watching closely."

-via The Conversation, May 21, 2024

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Louisville Gun Club 208 Torcido Rd NW, Rio Rancho, NM 87144, USA See in map

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https://www.abqjournal.com/opinion/opinion-governor-it-s-time-to-ban-assault-weapons-in-new-mexico/article_1c5e3c94-b19a-11ee-a0b8-bfceaa002b91.html? | Archive

>Every day, Americans wake up to the news of another community torn apart by gun violence.

Yes, and? 100 million+ guns. 365 incidents a year is relatively small.

And most of those aren't even with legal guns.

America’s gun violence crisis has become so rampant that we are virtually numb to the deadly reality that more than 120 Americans are shot and killed every day in our country.

Most of which are suicides. Which rarely "tear communities apart".

Families from Farmington to Las Cruces feel the anxiety and fear of being gunned down at shopping malls and movie theaters, of dropping their children off at school.

Good news! The trip is actually much more likely to kill kids than guns!

We saw it in Farmington — a teenager legally purchased an AR-15 in late 2022 and bought an additional three magazines just days before he went on a shooting spree.

That's a very careful way to avoid saying "a legal adult bought a gun he was legally entitled to buy and murdered people". Which he might've done anyway, no matter how long the wait was.

And I don’t think it’s a good idea to strip rights from millions of people in the hopes it’ll do some good.

Three women were brutally slaughtered by an automatic weapon designed for warfare and whose only purpose is to kill multiple people in a short amount of time.

Legal automatic weapons are highly limited, strictly controlled, and federally tracked.

Rifles are less commonly used for murders than knives, blunt objects, or bare hands.

AR15s are very commonly used for varmint control and feral hog control.

They're also being phased out by the actual military because they aren't good enough at killing people.

If you >can't even describe the gun correctly<, I gotta wonder how you expect to make laws against it.

[cid5]

1931 Mexican Mauser and Poco No. 1

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[lesbiradshaw]

⋆˙⟡♡ some of my favorite monica looks!

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Ramón Arellano Félix + outfits

[piastri]

call it delusion call it denial call it me being a 🤡but there’s stilll a tiny part of me that believes

[mysharona1987]

Re: Alec Baldwin case. Yes, the armourer was guilty, but the way the female cop (oh so gently) talked her out of getting a lawyer in the initial interrogation said everything.

Armourer girl who knows she’s in deep shit*between sobbs* “I need a lawyer in here, right?”

Female cop: “But, why? We’re just having a friendly conversation. You don’t need a lawyer. You can trust us.”

Armourer, still a stupid, hysterical mess: “I suppose not…”

She then spends the next hour blubbering, blabbing and totally incriminating herself on tape.

She was guilty. She was inept. But this was sickening. There should have been a lawyer there.

[army-of-idiots]

[mudwerks]

(via Pulp International - 1943 photo of Dolores del Rio)

Dolores del Río poses with a machine gun during a 1943 Mexico City photo session meant to drum up support for the country's participation in World War II. Women from the civilian organization Servicio Femenino de Defensa were photographed by Hoy magazine, and del Río, one of the membership, took part. There was a caption in the magazine about her giving up her Hollywood finery to become a “dangerous modern soldier,” but she didn't participate in the war except as a symbol and fundraiser, as far as we know.

[pleasantfanartist]

She's a champion

[blueeyeddarkknight]

With great eyes comes high light and flashing sensitivity 👁️🕶️📸🥺

It gets overwhelming sometimes and he gets temporary blindness 😵😭

It evolves a lot of squinting in pics, wearing tinted glasses, even indoors (not to mention they look cool ❄️)

That's also why his house (new Mexico) is mostly lit by soft and yellow lights, scones💡 and candles 🕯️even the chandelier.

Source : the architectural digest

[thoughtlessarse]

A United States federal judge dismissed on Wednesday most of the Mexican government’s US $10 billion lawsuit against U.S. gun manufacturers it accused of negligent business practices leading to violence in Mexico. District Judge Dennis Saylor threw out claims against six of eight companies Mexico sued in 2021. Saylor, a judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, previously dismissed Mexico’s lawsuit in October 2022, saying that U.S. law “unequivocally” prohibits claims that seek to hold gun manufacturers responsible when people use their products for their intended purpose. The Mexican government appealed the decision, and in January a U.S. appeals court ruled its lawsuit could proceed.] On Wednesday, Saylor once again dismissed Mexico’s lawsuit against Sturm, Ruger & Co.; Barrett Firearms Manufacturing; Glock; Colt’s Manufacturing Company; Century International Arms; and Beretta U.S.A. Corp. In early 2022, those companies filed to have the lawsuit against them dismissed based on the broad protection the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act provides to gun manufacturers.

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