Originally Posted by
BLue
Since I'm mexican and I'm married to an american (we are living in Mexico), in this sad cases we always talk about the differences between both gun laws. Here in Mx every mexican citizen has the right to own a gun but just for the protection of their family and their property as long the caliber it is not exclusively for the use of the armed forces. The guns we can own are the caliber 380, 32, 25 y 22, BUT not because you want to have a gun in your house for your protection means that you can get one, if you want to buy one you have to ask authorization to the army sending them letters whith proofs that you have a legal job, a medical certificate saying you are not mentally unstable and a letter that explains why do think you need a gun (in some cases you add the police reports if you had a death threat), after the long process they usually deny your license, unless you are a politician or somebody with good relations with people that works for the government lol. If you are lucky to get the license but you make the mistake to carry a gun outside your house and the police finds out, you go directly to prison. The mexican army has the "food/cash for guns" program, where you can trade your guns...
Before the drug cartels war, we didn't hear about mass shootings like we do now, but rarely in those shootings innocent people die. The bad thing now is that civilians are getting guns illegally because of this, so the amount of armed robberies and murders had increased in the last years. I have heard a lot of people saying that they would like our gun law to be flexible like in the US.
Sorry for my english, but I'm not goot at English grammar lol, I'm still learning.