translated from Spanish: Legal loopholes are exploited in the United States

Despite the controls being imposed on the carrying of firearms on US territory, loopholes allow enthusiasts to access them in the neighboring northern country. The disputes in the Congress of the American Union to address the issue regularly end in a stalemate, the criminologist Itxel Cruz.De fact, the feeling towards gun ownership is very marked among Americans who frequently wield the Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America, which “protects the right of the American people to own and bear arms.”
“Basically, the legal difference between gun possession in the United States and Mexico is that in the Mexican Constitution the use of weapons for exclusively the Army is regulated in Article 10, removes the availability of calibers, up to 9 millimetres. Trims the possibility of use as well as semi-automatics. In the United States, assault rifles can be marketed.” HELP US Click the Google News star and follow usLegislation
Cruz also recalled that in other massacres similar to those of August 4, 2019, it is the heavy-caliber rifles that are used jointly to other open-access weapons in the American Union: “In the case of Texas, Ohio, and other similar massacres , almost always used AK-47 or AR-15, assault rifles. Although they were banned for some time, manufacturers changed physical characteristics to profit from them. Shotguns, silencers, ammunition, things that are legal in the United States were also used in the Columbine massacre.” In this wording, it is the National Firearms Act of 1934 that “superficially regulates” American citizens for the purchase and sale of shotguns, machine guns, firearms silencers, rifles, short cannon and destructive devices (grenades, bombs, missiles and poisonous gases). Also, specified the specialist, the sale of semi-automatic weapons is legal in most of the states that make up the American Union.Restrictions
The sale of weapons, Cruz emphasized, is laxly restricted to fugitives from the law, “people considered a danger to society”, people with recent criminal records related to the carrying of drugs or penalties who have passed a year (in the case of two years (in the case of minor crimes), to patients involved with mental health institutions: “This is what the U.S. government is supposed to regulate to whom they sell these weapons, although this applies to those who obtain commercial use of them ” this is where legal loopholes come in, and stakeholders skip that regulation,” he said. Call for bilateral cooperation
The events of Ohio and El Paso are part of attacks against Jewish, African-American, Muslim and Latin American populations in the United States, noted David Adame, executive director of Chicanos for the Cause. The president of the Latin community development organization said that leaders in Washington “just fan the flames of violence,” so he called for an effort between Mexico and the American Union to reduce xenophobia: “Congress has obstructed continually any significant reform in gun laws, and the racist rhetoric of the White House only encourages such tragedy. As mass shootings seem to occur more and more frequently, the natural reaction can be inclined to disconnect and become disinterested; we urge you to come closer; we must strengthen ties with our community and neighbouring nations,” the activist stressed.

David Adame, executive director of Chicanos for the Cause. Photo: Courtesy

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