Data shows that firearms were purchased in 212 Texas counties before being trafficked to #Mexico and recovered as crime guns from 2015-2022, for a total of nearly 22,000 firearms. https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-mexico-guns-border-crime/

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Texas Is Arming Mexico’s Gunmen

Data shows that firearms were purchased in 212 Texas counties before being trafficked to Mexico and recovered as crime guns from 2015-2022, for a total of nearly 22,000 firearms. 

^{John Lindsay-Poland (The Texas Observer)}