Crime is rising in Mexico City, and gun rentals as cheap as $25 are making life easier for criminals

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• Recent reports indicate that a variety of firearms are available for rent in Mexico City, where crime has been on the rise.
• The rentals do not appear to be widespread, but it is a method of accessing weapons that circumvents the use of gun-tracing to fight violent crime.
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Criminals in Mexico City are increasingly able to rent weapons, use them to commit crimes and then return them, confounding Mexican authorities who have often relied on gun tracing as part of their crime-fighting efforts.

Over the last month, it has come to light that numerous types of firearms could be rented for periods as short as one day in the Mexican capital, with the weapons often being brought in from stashes in the surrounding State of Mexico.See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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