Mexico’s case against gun producers rejected by the US Supreme Court

The US Supreme Court on Thursday threw Mexico’s $ 10 billion case against US gunfire, unanimously ruled that the 2005 law continues to sue defendants.

Judge Elena Gagan told the Supreme Court Written feedback Because “Mexico’s Complaint Representative Firms have not accused the gun manufacturers of illegally selling gun vendors to Mexican hijackers and preventing the PLCA case.”

Plcaa is The safety of legal trade in weaponsIt protects manufacturers and vendors of guns with their weapons without being responsible.

The Supreme Court’s verdict came on Thursday in response to the appeal of the court’s decision under 2024, filed by Kanmakar Smith & Wesan and gun distributor Interstate Arms.

In 2021, The Mexican government has sued the US -based gun manufacturers and distributorsThey blame the indifferent business practices that have led to illegal armed trafficking and deaths in Mexico, where there are American raw guns Most used in high attack crimes. Hundreds of thousands of guns Estimated to be transported to Mexico From the United States every year.

The Mexican government has accused the gun producers of designing and producing the weapons that attract Cartel members. For example, Gold has made a gun decorated with the image of Emiliano Jabata, the hero of the Mexican Revolution. Mexico gunfire companies have said that “they accused them of illegally designing and selling their guns as military quality weapons.”

In addition, the Mexican government said that the gunshowing guns -rifled guns hijacked from the United States to Mexico had caused a decline in investment and economic activities in Mexico, and that there was an unusual cost of health care and legal enforcement due to gun violence in Mexico.

Except for Smith & Veson and Interstate Arms, there were gunmen who sued Mexico Succeeded in expelled accusations against them Thursday before the Supreme Court decision.

4 years of legal war ended

The Supreme Court’s verdict came after three months Oral arguments In an appeal filed by Smith & Wesan and Interstate Arms against Mexico’s case.

Those two companies opposed The Appeal Court’s verdict in January 2024 The case of the Mexican government accuses the “Mexico’s Complaint PLCA of the PLCA… from the public barrier.”

The Mexico case against Smith & Veson, Beretta, Gold, Clock and other gun producers, filed in August 2021, was initially Was dismissed in 2022 Chief Justice of the Federal Court in Boston Dennis Sailar said the US law “undoubtedly” has banned cases that seek to take charge of gun producers, when people use their products for their desired purpose – that is, to shoot them.

Mexico appealed that decision, which led to the judgment of the Court of Appeal at the beginning of 2024.

Gagan wrote “the basic theory of Mexico”, “defenders have failed to use ‘fair care’ to prevent smuggling their guns into Mexico.

He noted that the PLCA’s “General Bar” has an “exception” for cases against manufacturers and sellers of guns, which is an exceptional violation of a state or federal law that suits the “defendant manufacturer or seller’s guns,” and ‘violation is a role that is a detrimental to relief’

In the case against the gun companies, Gagan wrote that Mexico set up a “high bar” for himself.

“This does not point to any specific criminal transactions that have been assisted by the defendants, and instead of any specific criminal transactions that equate the most common charge: not all manufacturers help unidentified rogue vendors in violation of various legal bar.”

“The proper character of that accusation cannot help raise the burden of Mexico. To survive, it must be supported by reliably accusations of widespread, proper and criminal assistance. Mexico’s leading claim – manufacturers will choose to sell guns and fail to destroy that bar.

“Mexico’s allegations about design and marketing results (gun producers) have not added anything to its case,” he wrote.

“Mexico ‘Military Style’ focuses on the preparation of offensive weapons, but these products are widely legal and purchased by ordinary consumer.

“The same applies to guns with graphics that refer to the history of Spanish translation or the history of Mexican-they wrote that they can ‘appeal to Hispanic Americans who respect millions of law’.

Gagan said his decision was “compatible with the main purpose of the PLCA.”

“The Congress has composed the PLCA to stop the cases of trying to pay gun manufacturers as a result of misuse of criminals or illegal guns. Mexico’s case is similar to those cases,” he wrote.

The other two judges filed the same comments. This is the first time the Supreme Court has handed over the ruling on the PLCA.

This decision is a significant blow to the Mexican government, which has sought $ 10 billion compensation from gunfire, as well as court order, and gunfire, “reduce the public harassment they have developed in Mexico”.

It wanted the opportunity to prove its case against defendants in court.

Catherine Stetson, a lawyer of the Mexican government, told the Supreme Court in early March “Mexico’s allegations, but they should be considered true.”

“Mexico should be given a chance to prove its case,” he said.

For their part, the USA Today said, “The gun producers led by Smith & Veson Brands are used to make crimes in Mexico after the chain of pistols and the harm it causes after being sold.”

Although its case is prevented, some rivers for the Mexican government have recently increased since the recent recent attempt to stop the guns beyond its southern border. Seized nearly 9,700 guns tied to Mexico Between January 20, when US President Donald Trump began his second term in early May.

Mexico has long urged the US to stop the frequently so -called flow The “Iron River” of the guns Land border of 3,145 kilometers of two countries.

With reports from Ap And America today