Every gun show in America allows anyone to walk in and buy any kind of gun they want, even assault weapons, and no background check is necessary and you can walk out of the gun show with any amount of weapons you so choose. Too often these same weapons are finding their way to Mexico and being used to commit crimes, including murder. This is one reason why the murder rate is so high in Mexico today.
The trick is finding out the right person to buy the guns from at the gun show. At every gun show in America there are gun dealers as well as private citizens selling guns. The gun dealers are forced, by law, to put you through a criminal background check before they can sell you a gun. However, a private citizen can also sell guns at a booth at your local gun show. The difference is private citizen non-gun dealers selling guns do “not” have to ask you to submit to a background check before selling you any kind and any amount of weapons you so desire, hence the gun show loophole.
At one gun show in the U.S., but near the Mexican border, an undercover camera caught what appeared to be Hispanics, brazenly and with ease, walking up to American citizens who just left a gun show and asking to buy the guns the Americans had just purchased at the gun show, and these Hispanics were willing to pay cash right then and there.
Undercover cameras even caught U.S. citizens walking through U.S. Mexico border check points with backpacks and no one on either side of the border ever even asked them what they were carrying in their backpacks. This is just one way how weapons, ammunition and who knows what else is being delivered to the Mexican drug cartels and others across the border.
SUPPLEMENTAL SOURCE: CURRENT TV “ARMING MEXICAN DRUG CARTELS” MAY 3, 2012