Captured Beltran Leyva cartel drug smuggler Edgar "La Barbie" Valdez Villarreal laughs during press conference. Perhaps William Booth of
The Washington Post asked him about getting heavy firepower from U.S.
gun shops…? (Click to enlarge)

“Mexico has some of the toughest gun-control laws in the world, a matter of pride for the nation's citizens. Yet Mexico is awash in weapons,” William Booth of The Washington Post asserts.

Mexican authorities insist that 90 percent of those weapons have been smuggled from the United States.

By way of reference, he links to an earlier report, part of a hit piece series his paper put out earlier in the month propagandizing about U.S. guns and Mexican drug crime. The thing is, you have to search
through the entire five-page piece to find the one relevant reference, which hardly backs up what Booth wants his readers to walk away with: