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Mexico faces off with U.S. gunmakers on the Supreme Court docket
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Mexico faces off with U.S. gunmakers on the Supreme Court docket

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By Tycoon Herald 4 Min Read Published March 4, 2025
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Mexico faces off with U.S. gunmakers on the Supreme Court docket

Mexico is arguing on the Supreme Court docket that U.S. gun producers are aiding and abetting an unlawful invasion of weapons from the US into Mexico.

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President Trump says that Mexicans are invading the US, however on the U.S. Supreme Court docket on Tuesday, Mexico is arguing that American gun producers are aiding and abetting an unlawful invasion of weapons from the US into Mexico.

Mexico is suing Smith & Wesson and different gunmakers for damages, claiming that they’re turning a blind eye to tons of of hundreds of excessive powered weapons made in the usthat are illegally trafficked into within the fingers of Mexican cartels.

Twenty 5 years in the past, gun producers discovered themselves dealing with lawsuits from cities, states, and counties over gun violence. The producers raced to Congress for defense, and Congress obliged with a regulation giving them broad immunity from legal responsibility. However there have been exceptions within the regulation. For example, the dad and mom of kids killed in Newtown, Conn., received $73 million from the maker of the Bushmaster rifle used within the bloodbath. The households used a advertising exception within the regulation and argued that the corporate’s advertising ways focused weak younger males an inspired unlawful conduct.

Whereas 90% of gun sellers act legally of their gun gross sales, 5% don’t, based on lawyer Jonathan Lowy, co-counsel for Mexico and president of International Motion on Gun Violence.

“Those bad actors sell to obvious cartel traffickers in bulk sales and repeated sales where the traffickers come into the store repeatedly over weeks and months, buying large amounts of AK-47s, AR-15s, sniper rifles that can shoot down helicopters, often paying in cash,” he says. “Manufacturers know who those dealers are, how they’re supplying the cartels, and yet they continue to choose to sell their guns through those dealers, and allowing those sales practices.”

“That’s a flawed argument,” counters Lawrence Keane, counsel for the Nationwide Taking pictures Sports activities Basis, the commerce affiliation for the firearms business.

“Every sale to a consumer by a licensed retailer is approved by the federal government. Every transactions requires a federally mandated background check,” he says, including that Mexico is arguing {that a} “lawful distribution system that’s approved under federal law…is aiding and abetting cartels.”

“If that was all that was required,” he provides, “Budweiser would be responsible for drunk driving accidents all across the United States, and apparently including Mexico.”

Mexico notes that it’s a nation the place weapons are speculated to be tough to get. There is only one retailer in the entire nation the place weapons will be purchased legally, but the nation is awash in unlawful weapons bought most frequently to the cartels. Mexico maintains that gushing pipeline of what it calls “crime guns” comes from the US the place producers know which sellers are the unhealthy actors.

“You can’t hide behind the middleman and pretend like you don’t know what’s happening,” says Lowy, Mexico’s co-counsel .

Keane of the gun producers commerce affiliation has a really totally different view.

“This case by Mexico is an attempt to have regulation through litigation and it’s particularly offensive, candidly, when it is done by a foreign sovereign who comes into the U.S. court and then seeks not just $10 billion in damages” but additionally seeks to dictate how merchandise will be bought and to whom. “That’s invasion of U.S. sovereignty,” he says.

A choice within the case is anticipated by summer time.

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