‘We will dismantle these networks’: Here’s how many guns the Trump administration kept from Mexican cartels

The Trump administration has stopped more than 4,000 firearms from going to Mexican drug cartels over the last year, and estimates it kept about 1,600 rounds of ammunition per day away from drug gangs.

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, or ATF, announced that since President Donald Trump’s second inauguration in January 2025, it seized 4,359 guns bound for Mexico to be used by cartels and gangs.

Further, the ATF says it seized 648,975 rounds of ammunition bound for Mexico...