A quick thread on the ruling. Mexico’s basic argument (well, really it is the argument of the American gun grabbers who aligned themselves with Mexico) was that S&W is liable for crimes in Mexico because their conduct falls within the “predicate exception” of the PLCAA. “That exception applies to lawsuits in which the defendant manufacturer or seller “knowingly violated a State or Federal statute applicable to the sale or marketing” of firearms, and the “violation was a proximate cause of the harm for which relief is sought.””
Specifically, Mexico alleged “that the manufacturers were “willful accessories” in unlawful gun sales by retail gun dealers, which in turn enabled Mexican criminals to acquire guns. And it sets out three kinds of allegations relating to how the manufacturers aided and abetted retailers’ unlawful sales: The manufacturers allegedly (1) supply firearms to retail dealers whom they know illegally sell to Mexican gun traffickers; (2) have failed to impose the kind of controls on their distribution networks that would prevent illegal sales to Mexican traffickers; and (3) make “design and marketing decisions” intended to stimulate cartel members’ demand for their products. The District Court dismissed the complaint, but the First Circuit reversed, finding Mexico had plausibly alleged that defendants aided and abetted illegal firearms sales.”
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Where were Giffords, et. al during Operation Gun Runner and Fast and Furious?
Mexico can solve the gun smuggling problem by doing just one thing. Securing THEIR border. The Mexican gov’t has no actual control of the nation. It is now a narco state. The cartels control everything.
They can make a huge dent by securing their own arms. A LOT of the US guns being used there went US govt->mexican govt->cartels.