In 2019, the gun buyback program recovered 3,620 light weapons, 838 heavy weapons and over 900,000 ammunition cartridges, the Mexican government told NBCNews.
“It was a weapon I inherited, and truthfully I had it at home," he said."I don’t need it.”
Tirado says it's bolstered by “a lack of action from the Mexican state against this violence, especially in the last year.” Mexico City government director Adriana Contreras Vera described the buyback initiative as a prevention program. She argued that success could be measured via “the number of weapons turned in and destroyed because recovering even one weapon could prevent problems or a fatal accident.”
He also points out that figures on illegal firearms differ widely within agencies in Mexico, with some agencies saying there are as many as 250,000, while Mexico City authorities argue the number is fewer than 144,000.
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