Many of them inevitably leak from the United States into other countries. Once he’d procured the weapons to be shipped to Brazil, according Brazilian police, he’d fill the pool heaters with guns. Barbieri denied any connection to the scheme upon his arrest in the United States, according to the federal complaint against him. Smuggling is made even easier because of the sheer number of guns available in the United States. The United States has no federal gun trafficking law, and the bar for prosecuting trafficking-related crimes is often prohibitively high, multiple former ATF agents said.

Source: Huffington Post March 08, 2018 03:11 UTC