How Texas’s gun laws allow Mexican cartels to arm themselves to the teeth

Governor Greg Abbott wants to make the border safe for his state but loose gun laws allow cartels to drive to any Texas gun shop and legally stockpile guns, Mexican officials say

Saying he wants to make the US-Mexico border as safe as possible for his state, Texas's governor Greg Abbott last month signed an order designating Mexican drug cartels as terrorist organizations" and urged the Joe Biden White House to do the same.

But the same border that Abbott insists he wants to make safer is actually being destabilized by Texas's lax gun laws, which the governor defends and which the Mexican cartels exploit to arm themselves - legally - to the teeth, according to officials left to grapple with the situation.