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Segob Reports 8,547 Firearms Exchanged in Mexico’s National Buyback

Officials frame the program as a violence-prevention effort using cash valuations with community outreach to drive participation.

Overview

  • Interior Secretary Rosa Icela Rodríguez announced the updated tally at the presidential morning briefing, covering activity from October 1, 2024 through November 7, 2025.
  • The collection includes 5,031 short firearms, 2,466 long firearms and 1,050 grenades.
  • Authorities also received 509,597 cartridges, 11,211 magazines and 85,014 detonators, and swapped 6,353 toy weapons for educational toys.
  • The initiative operates with the Defense Ministry and the Catholic Church, with new exchange posts recently installed in Apizaco and San Pablo del Monte, Tlaxcala.
  • Payments follow Diario Oficial de la Federación schedules ranging from 260 pesos for unusable ghost guns to 25,000 pesos for certain rifles, and related outreach reports say 2,871,219 people have been reached with over 4,437,000 attentions.