Editing Arms trafficking (section)

===Mexico===
{{Further information|Smuggling of firearms into Mexico}}
During the [[Mexican Revolution]], gunrunning into [[Mexico]] reached rampant levels with the majority of the arms being smuggled from the United States.<ref name="Knight1">{{cite book |last1=Knight |first1=Alan |title=The Mexican Revolution: Porfirians, Liberals, and Peasants  |date=1986 |publisher=University of Nebraska Press |location=Lincoln |isbn=0-8032-7770-9}}</ref>{{rp|126}} As Mexico manufactured no weapons of its own, acquiring arms and ammunition were one of the main concerns of the various rebels, intent on armed revolution.<ref name="Knight1" />{{rp|198–199}} Under American law at the time, arms smugglers into Mexico could be prosecuted only if one was caught ''in flagrante delicto'' crossing the border as merely buying arms with the intention of gunrunning into Mexico was not a criminal offense.<ref name="Knight1" />{{rp|186}} Given the length and often rugged terrain of the American-Mexican border, the undermanned American border service simply could not stop the massive gunrunning into Mexico.<ref name="Knight1" />{{rp|186}}

In February 1913-February 1914, President [[Woodrow Wilson]] imposed an arms embargo on both sides of the Mexican civil war, and not until February 1914 was the embargo lifted on arms sales to the Constitutionalist rebels.<ref name="Knight2">{{cite book |last1=Knight |first1=Alan |title=The Mexican Revolution: Counter-revolution and reconstruction |date=1990 |publisher=University of Nebraska Press |location=Lincoln |isbn=0-8032-7770-9}}</ref>{{rp|31}} Despite the arms embargo, there was much gunrunning into Mexico, as one American official complained in 1913: "our border towns are practically their commissary and quartermaster depots".<ref name="Knight2" />{{rp|31}} Guns were smuggled into Mexico via barrels, coffins, and false bottoms of automobiles.<ref name="Knight2" />{{rp|31}} General Huerta avoided the American arms embargo by buying weapons from Germany.<ref name="Knight2" />{{rp|154}}