Drug Control Breeds Gun Control

Drug Control Breeds Gun Control
"Two weeks ago (as Radley Balko noted), a Fox News story by William La Jeunesse and Maxim Lott debunked the commonly heard factoid that 90 percent of the firearms used by Mexican drug traffickers come from American dealers.
In a front-page story about gun smuggling on Tuesday, The New York Times modified the claim, saying '90 percent of the 12,000 pistols and rifles the Mexican authorities recovered from drug dealers last year and asked to be traced came from [gun] dealers in the United States.'
But according to La Jeunesse and Lott, that's not quite right either:"