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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mugsy" data-source="post: 2113098" data-attributes="member: 18914">No registry exists and no authority exists to create one - so no.  But they could at least provide all the info on the 2000 or so weapons sold knowingly to cartel suppliers by "Fast and Furious".This whole issue is a red herring - the military grade, fully automatic weapons that the cartels use come from either the Mexican Army itself or from international arms dealers (mostly Chinese and Russian).  The US "gun supply" story is mostly kept alive by those who want to use it domestically in the US as a way to pressure gun owners.  On the pistol side, I did see a report that there are a significant number of US original manufacture handguns in Mexico but that is not what is fueling the drug wars, nor the challenge to Mexico's Federal government's authority.</blockquote>