Enrique Méndez
La Jornada newspaper
Tuesday, April 22, 2025, p. 11
The Chamber of Deputies will vote tomorrow reforms to the Law on Firearms and Explosives to harden the measures and sanctions against illegal trafficking and illegal use of firearms, cartridges, explosives, as well as the manufacture of armored vehicles called Monsters
and homemade mines used by organized crime.
The Defense Commission made changes to the initiative that on September 18 sent former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, but ratifies permits so that ejida-tarios and officials of strategic areas such as Pemex and the National Intelligence Center carry weapons.
The opinion plans to align Mexico’s international commitments on arms control and, in the constitutional field, establishes greater regulations for its possession, commercialization and use.
In addition, the powers of the Ministry of National Defense in the purchase, possession and use of weapons are centralized, while prohibiting them, but to establish more controlled access.
The reform includes the express prohibition so that the weapons used by the armed forces are used by security services to individuals.
Change the definition of firearm and also prohibit those that use compressed air, laser and even night vision equipment.
