Hacked data reveals which US gun sellers are behind Mexican cartel violence
A massive leak of Mexican military intelligence has exposed for the first time in two decades U.S. gun shops and smugglers tied to 78,000 firearms recovered south of the border – and which types of guns are being trafficked.The nuggets of information are among roughly 10 million records hacked by an anonymous collective known as “Guacamaya” and shared with news outlets by the transparency organization Distributed Denial of Secrets, or DDoSecrets. The Mexican Defense Ministry leakpreviously made headlines for exposing military corruption and surveillance abuse, and now revealsthe trace data on American-sold firearms recovered since 2018.Texan Craig Adlong, he pleaded guilty in 2020 for lying on firearm transaction forms, saying the guns were for his personal use. He purchased 95 semi-automatic rifles at Guns Unlimited in Katy, Texas, making seven visits over two months. Sixty-six of those firearms were recovered in Mexico, according to the leak.
