Rather, those weapons are bought at gun shows, on street corners, over the Internet or from friends or neighbors, Nichols said.
Mexican officials point out that many of those weapons are bought at gun shops just over the border in the United States.
This sort of ambiguity could be useful during the cold war, when Syria bought weapons from the Soviet Union while flirting with American peace proposers.
Because the West will not arm and defend the opposition, weapons must often be bought with cash.
On Monday the BBC had revealed how stun guns with a voltage 20 times stronger than police Taser weapons can be easily bought online.
Mexican police claim that since the ban lapsed in 2004, the cartels have become much more powerfully armed: of 30, 000 guns they have seized since December 2006, 15, 000 are assault weapons, nearly all bought at the 7, 500 or so gun shops on the American side of the border.
Both countries were at war and under arms embargoes at the time they bought the Argentine weapons.
The newly banned weapons could no longer be bought or sold in Connecticut, and those legally owned already would have to be registered with the state, just like the high-capacity magazines.
Now that Britain has got its way, more of its weapons are likely to be bought from American firms, and more of its research and development funding will go to joint projects with America.
Neither does a Real Money Auction House where weapons and other powerful items can be bought for in-game gold or real money.
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Colorado voted to make background checks for gun-show purchases mandatory after Columbine, when investigators learned that the weapons used by the teenage killers were bought by an 18-year-old at a gun show to avoid a background check.
For the past 20 years America bought 20 million pounds a year from Russia, courtesy of dismantled nuclear weapons.
They started out as different character skins and things of that nature, but soon moved on to exclusive weapons or missions, content that regular players would have to do without unless they bought the game from a specific retailer.
It has promised longer sentences for people who carry guns illegally and new electronic marking of state-owned weapons in the hope of cutting the number of Kalashnikovs seeping into the black market, where they are bought more cheaply than anywhere else in the world.
Cards bought in stores are replicated in the online game in which people duel with other players calling on weapons, spells and followers to help defeat an opponent.
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