A friend claims some of the weapons used to assassinate Pancho Villa could have been obtained only from U.S. sources, thus there was a U.S. connection to his assassination. Is this true?

Charles Herrick El Segundo, California The general consensus, conspiracy theorists notwithstanding, is the U.S. wasn’t involved in any plot to get Villa. Although he was out of the political loop by 1923, Villa still had many enemies in Mexico. There was an abundance of Ameri-can weapons in Mexico as the U.S. had been a major supplier of guns and ammo since the early days of the 1910 Revolution, and these could have been obtained from any gun dealer. Villa died in a hail of gunfire on July 20