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Mastermind of Mexico Lawsuit Against Gun Makers Admits It's a Backdoor Route to Gun Control
Bearing Arms ^ | 2/9/24 | Cam Edwards

Posted on 02/09/2024 4:43:28 PM PST by CFW

Gun control activists are thrilled that a federal appeals court has allowed the government of Mexico's lawsuit against several major U.S. gun makers to proceed, at least for the time being, because they're hoping that the litigation will lead to the obliteration of the firearms industry.

A new op-ed in Newsweek from Jonathan Lowy, head of Global Action Against Violence, makes that clear. Lowy, who was formerly the general counsel and vice president of Brady's legal team, is the architect of Mexico's lawsuit, though you have scroll all the way to the bottom of his op-ed to discover his role in the litigation.

From the outset of his piece, however, Lowy makes his hopes for the lawsuit clear: a way to impose all kinds of new gun control restrictions without a vote in Congress or even unconstitutional executive actions by Joe Biden.

"U.S. gun laws are broken. Even when states muster the political will to enact reasonable restrictions, for example as California did recently, they get blocked in federal court. With federal and state action on guns stymied, the gun violence epidemic can seem hopeless.

But now there's finally some hope, and it's coming from outside the United States. A federal appeals court just issued the most significant opinion ever to go against the gun industry, ruling that Mexico has the right to sue manufacturers to hold them accountable for gun trafficking and gun violence."

(Excerpt) Read more at bearingarms.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Mexico
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; banglist; firearms; lawfare; mexico; nra; secondamendment
The left is using every ploy they can find to destroy the 2nd Amendment and take firearms away from law-abiding American citizens.
1 posted on 02/09/2024 4:43:28 PM PST by CFW
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To: CFW

The liberal DAs also drop weapons/gun charges they demanded be put on the books, all the time.


2 posted on 02/09/2024 4:46:15 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: CFW

Lawfare. It’s why so many progs go to law school.


3 posted on 02/09/2024 4:47:07 PM PST by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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A lawsuit isn’t an amendment to the Constitution.


4 posted on 02/09/2024 4:51:08 PM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: CFW

Mexico had their chance to indict and extradite the ATF agents and their superiors during the Fast & Furious hearings… but wasted that opportunity.


5 posted on 02/09/2024 4:51:36 PM PST by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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To: CFW

And this nonsense will eventually be stopped. The only question is how far it will progress before being dismissed.


6 posted on 02/09/2024 4:52:06 PM PST by Pox (Eff You China. Buy American!)
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To: CFW
Soon slimy lawyers will be suing Ford/GM/Toyota for drunk driving fatalities.
7 posted on 02/09/2024 4:52:34 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Proudly Clinging To My Guns And My Religion)
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To: CFW
Even when states muster the political will to enact reasonable restrictions, for example as California did recently, they get blocked in federal court.

It's not the federal courts fool, it's the US constitution blocking your illegal gun grabs. Go a head, waste your donors money I'm sure you are pocketing most of it.

8 posted on 02/09/2024 4:53:30 PM PST by usurper (AI was born with a birth defect.)
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I am awaiting the joyous headlines that greet the Cartels’ turning in their guns at the border.


9 posted on 02/09/2024 4:54:29 PM PST by lastchance (Cognovit Dominus qui sunt eius.)
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To: CFW

President Sisi of Mexico must have an axe to grind.


10 posted on 02/09/2024 4:54:42 PM PST by Joe 6-pack
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To: CFW

MEXICO IS AN ENEMY OF THE US.


11 posted on 02/09/2024 5:01:30 PM PST by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! DEATH TO MARXISM AND LEgermany in 1837. FTISM! AMERICA, COWBOY UP!)
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Maybe they should demand Eric Holder’s extradition.

That’d be a hoot.

L


12 posted on 02/09/2024 5:01:48 PM PST by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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Russian gun makers would be happy to not have American competition.

Russian President Putin would be happy to not have American gun makers.


13 posted on 02/09/2024 5:02:04 PM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: CFW

“Whether you measure in blood or treasure, the IED also proved the costliest feature of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan for American forces. 60 percent of all American fatalities in Iraq and half of all American fatalities in Afghanistan, more than 3,500 in total, were caused by IEDs. The same proportion holds for Americans who were wounded, totaling more than 30,000 service members.”

“Among the insurgent’s standard complement of arms — bullets, mortars, grenades — the IED provides unique advantages. The IED, after all, is a weapon that waits. It does not require the insurgent to expose himself to employ it, balancing risk in favor of the bomber.”

https://warontherocks.com/2017/05/how-the-ied-won-dispelling-the-myth-of-tactical-success-and-innovation/


14 posted on 02/09/2024 5:05:51 PM PST by Brian Griffin
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What do you do?

I make gun parts. I used to work for X, but they were sued out of business. Life goes on.

You don’t happen to make extra parts the ATF doesn’t know about and can’t track?

My son died, let me see, in I think, no....


15 posted on 02/09/2024 5:18:13 PM PST by Brian Griffin
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“U.S. gun laws are broken....”
The gun laws are working the way the democrats wanted them to work.

“Today we begin to disarm the criminal and the careless and the insane. All of our people who are deeply concerned in this country about law and order should hail this day.”-— Lyndon Johnson signing the 1968 gun control act into law.

And Thomas J. Dodd, who wrote the 1968 gun control act using the 1938 Nazi weapons law as a pattern...

“No one can predict how many lives will be spared because of this bill, but, if the bloody record of our yesterdays is any measure, millions of future Americans will live to enjoy the promise of many peaceful tomorrows.

I am grateful to have had the opportunity to play a part in this great moment in our time.”— Thomas J. Dodd on passage of the 1968 Gun control act.

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No wonder that in 1941, just days before the Pearl Harbor attack, Congress reaffirmed Second Amendment rights and prohibited gun registration. In 1968, bills to register guns were debated, with opponents recalling the Nazi experience and supporters denying that the Nazis ever used registration records to confiscate guns. The bills were defeated, as every such proposal has been ever since, including recent “universal background check” bills.

The lies we have been told over the years...

1962 We ONLY want to register handguns. Rifles will not be affected!
1964, We ONLY want to register ALL firearms, not ban them.

1968 We ONLY want to register all guns, and ban the import of foreign Saturday Night Specials, and 5-shot bolt action army surplus rifles! (they got the ban).

1970, We ONLY want to ban small American handguns. Rifles will not be affected!

1976 We ONLY want to ban ALL handguns! Rifles will not be affected!

1981, Actress Lee Grant on Good Morning America (ABC) screams...”THE NRA IS A RIFLE ORGANIZATION! THEY SHOULD GIVE UP THEIR HANDGUNS AND THEY CAN KEEP THEIR RIFLES!”

1984, they came for the rifles.

1994..When they thought they had banned “As-s-s-ault rifles they did not shut off the lights and go home. they immediately went after their next target, .50 cal single shot rifles “THAT CAN TAKE DOWN AN AIRPLANE!”

They will never be satisfied till they have an unarmed population.


16 posted on 02/09/2024 5:34:13 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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https://www.businessinsider.com/2nd-amendment-countries-constitutional-right-bear-arms-2017-10?op=1

Only 3 countries in the world protect the right to bear arms in their constitutions: the US, Mexico, and Guatemala


17 posted on 02/09/2024 5:37:26 PM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Bkmk


18 posted on 02/09/2024 5:44:42 PM PST by sauropod (The obedient always think of themselves as virtuous rather than cowardly.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...

19 posted on 02/10/2024 9:39:34 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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Surely, this insanity will not stand SCOTUS scrutiny!


20 posted on 02/10/2024 7:23:27 PM PST by Taxman ((SAVE AMERICA! VOTE REPUBLICAN IN 2024! SAVE AMERICA!))
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