Posted on 11/04/2024 5:04:35 AM PST by MtnClimber
In 2005, the Supreme Court’s Heller decision, which for the first time in American history acknowledged the Second Amendment recognizes the unalienable, individual right to keep and bear arms, was three years into the future. Anti-Liberty/gun cracktivists were pushing their latest strategy: suing gun makers for the third-party acts of people about who they had no knowledge and over who they had no control for misuse of their lawful products.
The strategy was to bankrupt American gun makers by an avalanche of nuisance lawsuits. American tort law doesn’t normally allow such suits, but their sheer volume might do the trick, even if gun makers won every suit, and they wouldn’t.
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A Massachusetts District Court used the plain language of the PLCAA to dismiss the suit, but the Fifth Circuit reversed the dismissal, which led the US Supreme Court to grant cert. The case will be decided during the Court’s 2025 term. The petition that led to cert raised these two legal issues:
*Whether the production and sale of firearms in the United States is the "proximate cause" of alleged injuries to the Mexican government stemming from violence committed by drug cartels in Mexico.
*Whether the production and sale of firearms in the United States amounts to "aiding and abetting" illegal firearms trafficking because firearms companies allegedly know that some of their products are unlawfully trafficked.
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Bizarrely, gun makers also know our own government under Barack Obama actually trafficked guns to cartels in the Fast and Furious debacle, guns that were eventually used to murder a Border Patrol officer. His killer was convicted, but his sentence was overturned in 2024. Were gun makers responsible for that lunacy?
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You forgot Scalia’s pillow push in the middle of the night during the purple-lipped Muslim’s reign.
So the state of Texas sues to stop Pennsylvania from violating election their own election laws which effect Federal elections in 2020 and the case is thrown out due to lack of standing, but a failed Narco-State which openly aids their citizens to invade our country want's to do an endrun around our laws to disarm US citizens is ok with SCOTUS.
Okay, once Trump is in office, he can deport 30MM people and toss ‘em over the fence into MX...and ban all arms exports to MX to boot.
The circuit court should have never let this go forward. The Supreme Court is being asked to right the wrong of the circuit court.
Cert was granted to Smith and Wesson to challenge the circuit court ruling allowing the Me I can lawsuit to go forward. This should have never gotten the the Supreme Court but if it did not, a trial would proceed against S&W.
Well, I’d think the first perpetrator they’d go after is Eric (My people) Holder and his F&F I and F&F II operations to ship American guns to Mexico to provide the very same circumstances Mexico is suing for now.
The circuit court should have done that. Now the Supreme Court has to overrule the circuit court and this is the way it is done. Smith and Wesson is the one proceeding to the SC.
Mexico has standing to sue gun manufacturers legal business here in America easily. Texas and 20 some odd states have no standing to sue Pennsylvania in the 2020 massive election fraud. Trump had no standing to sue states that committed obvious fraud.
But Mexico…. They need to be heard.
Another Justice Clarence Thomas smackdown ruling forthcoming. SCOTUS will repudiate this BS legal argument, clearly and permanently.
Screw that faile narco terror state. We should sue them for the billions, if not trillions, that s hole has cost importing their drugs, gangsters, and welfare leeches.
In that case, SCOTUS should publicly chastise and sanction the filth on the circuit court.
Am I understanding this right? The Supreme Court is allowing a suit by Mexico to move forward after they ruled that the State of Texas had no standing to file suit in 2020?
I suspect they will. It is the First Circuit though, the original article is wrong.
I didn’t forget - and everyone is on guard against that happening again.
no foreign citizen or country should have standing in any U.S. court for any purpose whatsoever, except in the case of a written civil contract dispute between one party in said foreign country and one party in the U.S. ... period ...
Mexico City KNOWS where the cartel headquarters are.
Blow them up and shut up!
The Supremes granted cert. OK, their call.
The lawsuit from a foreign country and local gun controllers is a big deal and offers a huge chance for the USSC to tell both to essentially “Get Pumped”.
Remember we still have a Constitutional Court thanks to Trump. I’m not going to panic - yet.
More concerned about tomorrow’s election. Headed to the polls in the morning.
And my keyboard can’t spell worth a damn today....
What kind of cars do cartel folks drive?
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