The Mexican government is seeking billions of dollars in damages for arms suppliers’ role in cross-border gun trafficking.


The government of Mexico is suing U.S. gun-makers for their role in facilitating cross-border gun trafficking that has supercharged violent crime in Mexico.

The lawsuit seeks US$10 billion in damages and a court order to force the companies named in the lawsuit – including Smith & Wesson, Colt, Glock, Beretta and Ruger – to change the way they do business. In January, a federal appeals court in Boston decided that the industry’s immunity shield, which so far has protected gun-makers from civil liability, does not apply to Mexico’s lawsuit.

As a legal scholar who has analyzed lawsuits against the gun industry for more than 25 years, I believe this decision to allow Mexico’s lawsuit to proceed could be a game changer. To understand why, let’s begin with some background about the federal law that protects the gun industry from civil lawsuits.

read more: https://www.truthdig.com/articles/mexico-is-suing-us-gun-makers-for-arming-its-gangs-and-fueling-extreme-violence/

  • Tak@lemmy.ml
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    9 months ago

    I truly wish Mexico luck, the US legal system protects gun makers better than children.

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      9 months ago

      Lol what a dumb statement. Add in that it also protects alcohol manufacturers and swimming pool companies as well.

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        9 months ago

        I don’t know why but I feel the need to remind you that here…

        THE LEADING CAUSE OF DEATH OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE IN AMERICA IS GUNS.

        more than disease, more than SIDS, more than car accidents and suicide. Gun violence. There is no fucking excuse for it. American children are dying to fucking bullets. It’s not a dumb statement. The US government refuses time and time again to demand change from the fire arm industry and it fails to pass meaningful legislation protecting those children from death by firearms every god damned year. Those children’s blood is on the hands of the killers, true, but it is also on the hands of every single person failing to do what they were elected to fucking do, protect their represented populations.