American High School Students Are Selling Guns Bound for Cartels NYT - Home Page By: Paulina Villegas and Adriana Zehbrauskas 3 October 2026 at 09:00 Drawn by money and status, teenagers in Arizona are buying, stealing and selling weapons destined for criminal groups in Mexico. Β© Adriana Zehbrauskas for The New York TimesTwo teenage American weapons traffickers β who provide weapons to Mexicoβs deadly drug cartels β practice shooting at targets in the desert outside of Phoenix, Ariz.