Washington – The Supreme Court on Tuesday weighed the fate of a Mexican government charged US Gummakers The accountability for an epidemic of violence that Mexican officials have said to be tracked by their products.
Justices can hear oral argument with the gun companies request to throw the case.
The case has reached the court amid further tensions between the US and Mexican leaders After President Donald Trump’s choice, seeking to focus on the flow of migrants to the US-Mexican border, which deals with trafficking and gang violence.
Trump announced new tariffs against Mexico due to the effect on Tuesday, and his administration Appointed Mexican Drug Cartels as groups of terrorists.
The Mexican Claudia Sybaum president has recently responded by saying in his country Cracking Gun Smuggling from the United States.
Washington Democrats indicate the law intended to reduce the flow of guns across the boundary, which they estimate at least 200,000 a year.
In 2021 cases, Mexican government accuses Smith & Wessson, Colt and other companies who are deliberately selling housing staff who resumed employees who have reclaimed Mexican staff. Government is looking for up to $ 10 billion damages.
Gun sellers, lawyers for Mexico say in court papers, regularly sold firearms to “hay dealers” whose purpose is to traffic over the full border. Companies designed with some weapons to appeal to cartel members, including a KOLT handgun known as Super El Jefe, lawyers said.
Mexico suffered as a result, lawyers reasoned, with many police and military staff killed or injured. Includes the case left and admit public disturbance.
The Supreme Court case involves two companies – Smith & Wessson and Intervinted Arms – including Glock and Colt, successfully possessing against them.
In the issue is a US law called protection of lawful Arms Act, which prevents cases against weapon manufacturers. Gunmakers say that the law applies to Mexican suits, which means the whole complaint should be widespread.
In the court papers, lawyers for gunmakers say the federal law protects them from any responsibility resulting from “criminal or criminal or criminal or unlawful damage to a firearm.
“It’s hard to imagine a suit that is more clearly forbidden” by the law, they write.
Mexican’s legal team focuses on a narrow exception to the Tiability Toils, which allows a case to proceed if a “an infringement company is a cause of damage to a lawsuit.
Mexico’s suits do not meet the requirements, companies say, as their arguments are for responsible trust in independent third parties, including guns cealers and dealers.
A federal judge rules for manufacturers, but the 1st Boston-based US 1st US circuit courture lived in case of last year not given to the specified Mexican claims.
