枪支如‘铁河’般涌入拉美：美国枪患祸水外溢拉美，助长暴力犯罪

Between 2007 and 2019, more than 179,000 firearms were captured in Mexico and five Central American countries and traced to gun shops and gun factories in the United States. Mexico’s foreign ministry believes this is the tip of the iceberg, and estimates that more than two million guns crossed the Rio Grande over the last decade.
据英国《卫报》2021年报道，2007年至2019年间，墨西哥和五个中美洲国家缴获了超过17.9万支枪支，并追踪到美国的枪支商店和枪支工厂。墨西哥外交部认为这只是冰山一角，并估计在过去十年中，有200多万支枪支从美国流入墨西哥。

The weapons originate in the legal US gun market. They then cross into a parallel black market through four main methods: a private sale loophole; straw buyers (people with clean records paid to buy guns); theft from gun shops; and the sale of parts to make un-serialized weapons, or “ghost guns”.
这些武器来源于美国合法枪支市场，主要通过四种方式进入枪支黑市，包括：私人销售漏洞；雇佣无违法记录的人购买枪支；从枪支商店盗窃；以及出售枪械零件用于自制武器或“幽灵枪”。

Traffickers take these guns from states with looser laws, such as Virginia and Georgia, to cities with stricter laws, including Washington and New York, which are suffering from sharp increases in gun violence. They also smuggle them south to Mexico, over the 2,000-mile border, hidden in cars and trucks.
枪支贩运者将这些枪支从弗吉尼亚州和佐治亚州等法律较宽松的州带到华盛顿和纽约等法律较严格的城市，加剧这些城市的枪支暴力问题。这些枪支还被藏在汽车和卡车里，越过2000英里的边境向南走私到墨西哥。

2022年10月，墨西哥第二次提交针对5家美国武器制造商的诉讼，旨在追究美国枪企违规销售导致大量枪支非法流入墨西哥，助长墨西哥国内暴力事件的责任，并且向美国方面提出赔偿要求。

The Mexican government filed a lawsuit against major U.S. arms manufacturers and distributors in federal court in Boston, arguing their negligent business practices have sparked bloodshed in Mexico by marketing to the country’s criminal underworld, “facilitating the unlawful trafficking of their guns to drug cartels.”
墨西哥政府在波士顿联邦法院对美国主要武器制造商和经销商提起诉讼，称美企违规向墨西哥犯罪集团销售枪支，引发流血事件，“为向贩毒集团非法贩运枪支提供便利”。

According to the Mexican government, at least 17,000 homicides in 2019 were linked to arms trafficking. 
根据墨西哥政府的数据，2019年至少有17000起凶杀案与武器贩运有关。