But that hasn't stopped sales from booming, in parallel with a large and active black-market trade for contraband weapons flooding south from the United States. At the gun store, 27 brands are on offer, from the United States' Colt, Austria's Glock and Italy's Beretta to the locally made Mendoza and Trejo. But "we would like it better that they would let us carry like in the United States . "The extreme liberal regime around gun control that exists in the United States is seen as a bizarre phenomenon. Mexico's lone gun store sold 52,147 firearms in 2009-14, a figure dwarfed by the black market trade that's largely fueled by illegal American imports.

Source: ABC News August 17, 2016 03:56 UTC