You may remember that Mexico (the country, not the state of New Mexico) filed suit in the U.S. against several firearms manufacturers saying that the firearms manufacturers are responsible for much of the gun violence and deaths in Mexico.
Now, this lawsuit should have been thrown out upon being filed in the U.S. because we have the PLCAA (Protective of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act) in place here in the U.S. to protect gun manufacturers from being blamed for evil actions of other people. But there are leftist activist judges and bureaucrats in the U.S., so we’re having to deal with it.
And we have evidence now that the entire lawsuit is based on a lie. From the BlazeTV Staff:
[Former ATF agent and author of “The Unarmed Truth” John] Dodson, who worked on the border in firearms trafficking for 12 years, says that every year when he ran the data, “70%-75% of the crime guns recovered in Mexico” were “direct purchases by the Mexican government,” which “are considered U.S.-source.”
The ATF, he explains, “doesn’t take those [purchases] out of the numbers when they speak to Congress or when they release the information. They count them all as U.S.-source firearms, and so the American civilian firearms market is left holding the bag and blamed for the cartel violence in Mexico.”
“So Mexico is buying [guns] from us, and I assume that those guns are supposed to go to the Mexican government to fight cartels. Are these guns going into the hands of the cartels?” Glenn [Beck] asks.
“Yes, 100%,” says Dodson.
That’s right, the firearms were purchased by the Mexican government (using U.S. dollars, too, as Dodson also detailed), but the lawsuit is based on the assumption that the firearms purchased by the Mexican government were sold to criminals illegally in the U.S.
But I’m not surprised that this anti-2A lawsuit, like lawsuits typically filed by anti-gun activists, is based on a lie, a falsehood, or twisted data taken out of context to make it look like it’s something different than it really is.
This lawsuit should be thrown out of court immediately, and a counter lawsuit against the country of Mexico should be filed both for them trying to indirectly steal Americans’ Second Amendment rights (by trying to bankrupt gun manufacturers) and for wasting American taxpayers’ money with a frivolous lawsuit.
It’s a complete fraud and lie.
