On the Iron River
Rachel Nolan: Guns across the Border, 21 November 2024
Exit Wounds: How America’s Guns Fuel Violence across the Border
by Ieva Jusionyte.
California, 333 pp., £24, April,978 0 520 39595 4 Show More
by Ieva Jusionyte.
California, 333 pp., £24, April,
Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling
by Jason de León.
Viking, 367 pp., £28.99, March,978 0 593 29858 9 Show More
by Jason de León.
Viking, 367 pp., £28.99, March,
“... that nearly anyone who wants a gun can buy one. The iron river created by what the anthropologist Ieva Jusionyte calls the ‘asymmetry between gun laws in the US and Mexico’ is not new: in the early 20th century US guns were smuggled to fighters in the Mexican Revolution. In 1971, Mexico tightened gun controls, passing a law stating that only the ... ”
