MEXICO CITY, Mexico – On a military base on the edge of Mexico City, the country's only gun store -- officially called the Directorate of Arms and Ammunitions Sales -- is concealed inside a bland, concrete building.
Uniformed troops serve as clerks. Mexico is one of just three countries – along with the United States and Guatemala – with the constitutional right to bear arms.
But citizens must travel from far and wide to this one place, face seemingly endless red tape and waiting periods, and pay exhorbitant prices and fees.
In pre-pandemic times, the store sold an average of just 38 firearms a day – yet Mexico remains awash with illegal weapons – almost all in the hands of cartels and criminal operatives.
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