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Posted on 06/05/2025 9:30:08 AM PDT by george76
In a unanimous decision the Supreme Court ruled 9-0 Thursday that the government of Mexico cannot hold American gun manufacturers accountable for criminal activity. More specifically, cartel violence south of the border.
"The Government of Mexico sued seven American gun manufacturers, alleging that the companies aided and abetted unlawful gun sales that routed firearms to Mexican drug cartels," the order states. "Mexico focuses on production of 'military style' assault weapons, but these products are widely legal and purchased by ordinary consumers. Manufacturers cannot be charged with assisting criminal acts simply because Mexican cartel members also prefer these guns. The same applies to firearms with Spanish language names or graphics alluding to Mexican history—while they may be 'coveted by the cartels,' they also may appeal to 'millions of law-abiding Hispanic Americans.' Even the failure to make guns with non-defaceable serial numbers cannot show that manufacturers have 'joined both mind and hand' with lawbreakers in the manner required for aiding and abetting."
"Because Mexico’s complaint does not plausibly allege that the defendant gun manufacturers aided and abetted gun dealers’ unlawful sales of firearms to Mexican traffickers, PLCAA [The Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act] bars the lawsuit," it continues. "Congress enacted PLCAA to halt lawsuits attempting to make gun manufacturers pay for harms resulting from the criminal or unlawful misuse of firearms. Mexico’s suit closely resembles those lawsuits. The Court doubts Congress intended to draft such a capacious way out of PLCAA, and in fact it did not."
Even the liberal, gun control prone Justices shot down Mexico's argument.
“This is a tremendous victory for the firearm industry and the rule of law. For too long, gun control activists have attempted to twist basic tort law to malign the highly-regulated U.S. firearm industry with the criminal actions of violent organized crime, both here in the United States and abroad,” National Shooting Sports Foundation Senior Vice President Lawrence Keane said in response to the ruling. “The firearm industry is sympathetic to plight of those in Mexico who are victims of rampant and uncontrolled violence at the hands of narco-terrorist drug cartels. The firearm industry works closely with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) to prevent the illegal straw purchasing of firearms and the illegal transnational smuggling of firearms. This unequivocal decision by the Supreme Court that PLCAA applies and there is no evidence whatsoever that U.S. manufacturers are in any way responsible is verification of commitment to responsible firearm ownership.”
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The tragedy is Mexico having access to OUR courts in an attempt to COMPEL a relief.
Wow...9-0.....amazing.
I wanna be pleased. But remember, when your attack is going well, it’s often a set up, leading you into an ambush.
The Surpremes are up to something.
Other countries are adept at using our freedoms and system against us.
That started with Clinton and obama and biden continued to allow the US to be a doormat to the world....and W wasn’t any better.
Same with cars, baseball bats, knives, whiskey bottles, or anything else that can kill or injure.
They showed us they don’t care about the second Amendment last week by refusing to hear cases suing over assault rifle and magazine capacity laws. So something else is behind this ruling.... something like they don’t want China to be able to sue us for a million causes...
Big money is behind this ruling somehow, in ways we cannot imagine.
How much money did this cost the gun companies before this decision?
I remember when guns were way cheaper than now. Costs go up because of these stupid lawsuits in the states as well as this.
Mexico’s mistake in this case was suing the gun manufacturers. They should refile the lawsuit against Obama and Eric Holder and the BATF for ‘Fast and Furious’. They’d have a much stronger case for directly “aiding and abetting”.
Surprised at a 9-0 ruling.
The simple fact is that even in the absence of the PLCAA, there is a complete lack of privity of contract between the gun manufacturers on the one hand, and the people or government of Mexico on the other. First of all, the manufacturers are completely regulated, and so are clearly producing legal products with a lot of oversight from our federal government. Second, they don’t sell these firearms directly to any member of the public, they sell them through highly regulated wholesalers, who in turn sell them to individual, highly regulated, federal firearms licensees. Those FFLs in turn sell them to the ublic, after going through a highly regulated process designed to ensure that only people legally able to own firearms are able to purchase them. Thus, the manufacturers are at least three transactions away from the final user of the firearm, and perhaps more. In any event, there is no legal principle which permits an innocent party to be held responsible, either criminally, or financially, for the criminal actions of someone not under their control.
9-0
The SC has reversed the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals which had reversed a District Court decision which had ruled there was no violation the law named PLCAA.
It was less a pro gun than it was a smack down of an embarrassing Apppeals Court decision which was so blaringly defiant of Congress that even the prog justices couldn’t twist around it.
Having found no way around the law the Progs joined in with glee having now earned some pro gun cred they can use on a later case to harm gun rights.
This SC decision does absolutely nothing to advance gun rights.
The cartels are the ones smuggling them into Mexico ILLEGALLY.
Maybe Mexico should do something about THAT and there would not be a problem.
Why is it everyone is always blaming someone other than themselves?
Ay! Yi! Yi! In a similar vein, I’m looking forward to a future decision scorching the cases bubbling up against Big Oil for causing climate change
Fast and Furious
Maybe they saw the light. We can hope. :)
The pizza deliveries are working.
A serious question.
If the Mexican government at all levels has been bought by the drug cartels, why would Mexico and the drug cartels want to harm US gun manufacturers?
Is this just a play for money?
Did they want to financially damage the firearms manufacturers?
Mexico should indict Eric Holder and demand his extradition to face trial in Mexico.
Trump would hand him over yesterday.
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