A coalition of 28 attorneys general has petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene in a case in which Mexico is blaming U.S. gun manufacturers for Mexican cartel gun violence.
At issue is a 2022 lawsuit brought by the Mexican government against U.S. gun manufacturers arguing they are responsible for Mexican cartel crime in Mexico. A federal judge in Massachusetts dismissed the lawsuit. Mexico appealed to the First Circuit Court of Appeals, which ruled that Mexico’s claims fall within an exception to the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act of 2005.
A coalition of 28 attorneys general has petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene in a case in which Mexico is blaming U.S. gun manufacturers for Mexican cartel gun violence.
At issue is a 2022 lawsuit brought by the Mexican government against U.S. gun manufacturers arguing they are responsible for Mexican cartel crime in Mexico. A federal judge in Massachusetts dismissed the lawsuit. Mexico appealed to the First Circuit Court of Appeals, which ruled that Mexico’s claims fall within an exception to the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act of 2005.
In June, a coalition of 27 AGs, led by Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen, appealed to the Supreme Court to throw out the case.
In a petition filed on Tuesday, the coalition, which now totals 28 AGs, asked the Supreme Court to reverse the First Circuit’s ruling noting that it has already rejected the expansive view of “proximate causation” that the First Circuit used to allow the case to go forward.
Mexico’s lawsuit contradicts claims made by its former president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, that crime went down under his leadership and crime in Mexico wasn’t a problem. From 2018 through the end of his term this year, violence increased exponentially, according to multiple reports, The Center Square reported.
