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Luis Merino may be the loneliest gun rights activist in North America.
Like a kid in a pastry shop, he gazes longingly into the display cases of 9mm handguns and sleek semi*automatic rifles here at the Directorate of Arms and Munitions Sales, the only gun store in this entire country. Run by the Mexican military, it restricts purchases of such models to police departments.
“The ones we can buy are over there,” Merino said, pointing across the store to the deer rifles and small handguns, no larger than a .380 caliber.
Yet Merino has gotten little traction trying to marshal a campaign for looser gun laws through his Facebook group, Mexico Armado (Mexico Armed).
“I’ve tried to contact congressmen, senators. They never respond,” said Merino, a Mexican military veteran who works as a private security consultant. “At this moment there are few of us, but when we have built a movement and we have votes, they’re going to have to pay attention to us.”
Excerpt ... Read more at
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/activists-struggle-to-loosen-gun-laws-in-mexico/2014/07/03/d9e03b2c-fb9e-48a4-b752-5d3287dba0fd_story.html
Like a kid in a pastry shop, he gazes longingly into the display cases of 9mm handguns and sleek semi*automatic rifles here at the Directorate of Arms and Munitions Sales, the only gun store in this entire country. Run by the Mexican military, it restricts purchases of such models to police departments.
“The ones we can buy are over there,” Merino said, pointing across the store to the deer rifles and small handguns, no larger than a .380 caliber.
Yet Merino has gotten little traction trying to marshal a campaign for looser gun laws through his Facebook group, Mexico Armado (Mexico Armed).
“I’ve tried to contact congressmen, senators. They never respond,” said Merino, a Mexican military veteran who works as a private security consultant. “At this moment there are few of us, but when we have built a movement and we have votes, they’re going to have to pay attention to us.”
Excerpt ... Read more at
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/activists-struggle-to-loosen-gun-laws-in-mexico/2014/07/03/d9e03b2c-fb9e-48a4-b752-5d3287dba0fd_story.html
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