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[–] [email protected] 29 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Maybe per city? I know there's one single gun shop where I live but not for the entire country? Lol

[–] [email protected] 34 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Are there most likely small illegal shops? Absolutely. But he is correct. There is only one single legal firearms store in mexico city and is run by the military

[–] [email protected] 12 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

He didn't say Mexico City. He said "Mexico."

[–] [email protected] 22 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

There are two in the whole country

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

The whole country of Mexico City, yeah. We're not talking about the continent of Mexico

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

No there is one in Mexico City and one in Nuevo Leon. It's not easy to get a gun in Mexico legally.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago

Yeah, I think there's more than one of anything illegal anywhere here on Earth at any given moment. Of course I mean the legal shops. Lol

[–] [email protected] 16 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

There are two in the whole country. Finding that odd shows a very Americanized view where gun are ubiquitous instead of controlled which is the exact point of this article.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Not American and I'm still baffled by that. I can think of two in my "small for US standards" city, in a country with less people than Mexico city, although most of their business is for sports and hunting.

Ask for anything slightly large or automatic and they'll laugh all the way to a cell.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 18 hours ago

Well even in the US it's quite expensive and difficult to get an automatic weapon. But if you meant semiautomatic then yeah they're everywhere.