People pushing gun control keep trying “creative” ways to steal our gun rights. If they can’t steal them through the legislature, they’ll try through blaming and arresting gun owners. If they can’t steal them that way, they’ll try through executive order. If they can’t do it that way, they’ll try to find some other way.
Such as having another country file a lawsuit in the U.S. to try to get gun control implemented.
No, I’m serious, they tried to do that. Specifically, Mexico filed a lawsuit against eight U.S. gun manufacturers to try to blame those manufacturers for the gun violence problem in Mexico. You can read more about that lawsuit here.
The good news about that lawsuit is that it was crushed in court. Stephen Katte writes,
A Massachusetts District Court Judge has dismissed Mexico’s $10 billion lawsuit against six out of the eight named American gun manufacturers that the country argues are responsible for firearms flooding south across the U.S.-Mexico border.
Katte continues:
In the ruling, U.S. District Judge Dennis Saylor found that Mexico had not shown enough evidence to prove that the activities of six defendant companies in Massachusetts were connected to gun crime in Mexico, citing jurisdictional problems.
As a result, he dismissed the lawsuit against Sturm Ruger & Company, Barrett Firearms Manufacturing, Glock, Colt’s Manufacturing Company, Century International Arms, and Beretta U.S.A. Corp. Two defendants remain: Smith & Wesson Brands and wholesaler Witmer Public Safety Group.
Again, from Katte:
According to Saylor, the core question for jurisdictional purposes is whether Mexico’s claims against the six moving defendants “arise” from their business transactions in Massachusetts.
However, he says the connection to Massachusetts, in this case, is “gossamer-thin at best” because Mexico’s government is “obviously not a citizen of Massachusetts,” and none of the defendants operate or have a principal place of business in the state.
“None of the alleged injuries occurred in Massachusetts. No Massachusetts citizen is alleged to have suffered any injury,” Saylor said in the ruling.
“And plaintiff has not identified any specific firearm, or set of firearms, that was sold in Massachusetts and caused injury in Mexico.”
Saylor also dismissed the argument that, statistically, it was likely that some firearms sold in Massachusetts were eventually illegally trafficked to Mexico.
This is a crushing blow to this end run that anti-2A zealots tried to use to strip Americans of gun rights.
Put in layman’s terms, the judge said that Mexico isn’t a citizen of Massachusetts, and that’s there is no proof that anyone in Mexico died because of a gun sold in Massachusetts. So, Mexico had no jurisdiction to file their case. Also, none of the firearms manufacturers being sued have primary offices in Massachusetts, so, even if the rest of the accusations against the gun makers in this case were true, the case couldn’t be filed in Massachusetts because, again, no jurisdiction to sue those companies in that state since the companies weren’t “located” in that state.
Put simply: the lawyers trying to grift money by filing these lawsuits for the country of Mexico did a terrible job for their clients by filing a case without any chance of succeeding.
If the Constitution were followed, though, this case wouldn’t even have gone as far in court as it did, so, we still have some work to do to ensure that our rights are passed down to our children and grandchildren.
The lawsuit is just crazy the legal guns go through COSTOMS TO dealers in Mexico were the ones used in crimes are smuggled in by criminals for criminals …
You will also note the Mexican government objects to OUR giving death sentencing murderers of Mexican birth and citizenship who are illegally in the US! They have stringent gun control laws there, as do many ‘blue-controlled’ cities and states in the us! You will note these are miserably failing THERE as well as HERE! We have such as Chicago, long noted for strict gun-control havind daily shootings.
The Mexicans have THEIR problem with the cartels, who presently RULE those crossing OUR border. They use guns in patrolling the Mexican side, to ensure ONLY those THEY approve can cross illegally!
The cartels likewise battle each other for cotrol of various areas, as the border, drug-mule crossings, etc. Almost daily, there are reports of mass killings, sometimes right AT the southern border. These are usually only reported when mass burial sites are discovered, later.
The Mexicans are upset at US manufactured guns are available there. However, the US isn’t the ONLY source! There are many AK-47-type weapons there, also, manufactured by a number of nations, as well as many surplus Russian ones from such as Afghanistan, brought in by enterprising gun-runners!
As the US is closer, and the Mexicans can rail at us at will, they tried to blame and sue US manufacturers. Thankfully, this ploy was stoppoed.
Why not all eight? Why were there only six dismissed? This whole thing seems to me to be a scam against THIS country’s firearms companies.