Opinion
This week, NRA filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court in Smith & Wesson Brands, Inc. v. Estados Unidos Mexicanos.
The Mexican government sued leading American firearms manufacturers in federal court, alleging that American firearms manufacturers are responsible for violence committed by Mexican drug cartels in Mexico. The Mexican government seeks billions of dollars from these American manufacturers as well as the imposition of various gun control laws, including a ban on “assault rifles,” a ban on firearms capable of holding “large-capacity” magazines, limits on multiple-gun sales, and extensive background checks for firearm sales.
The district court dismissed the lawsuit, but the First Circuit revived it. The manufacturers then filed a petition for certiorari, asking the U.S. Supreme Court to hear the case.
NRA filed a brief urging the Court to grant that petition.
The Court did grant the petition. NRA has now filed another brief addressing the merits of the case.
The brief argues that this case epitomizes the type of abusive lawsuit that the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act was enacted to prohibit. The brief provides a detailed history of the scores of lawsuits brought by the gun lobbies and anti-gun governments in the 1980s and 90s intended to bankrupt the firearms industry. The brief then refutes Mexico’s argument that “assault weapons” produced by American firearms manufacturers are responsible for crime in Mexico. It explains that Mexico’s homicide rate declined after the expiration of the U.S. “assault weapons” ban; that only a fraction of firearms used in crime in Mexico are determined to have come from the U.S.; that Mexican criminals obtain guns from all around the globe; and that the Mexican government’s own failures are primarily responsible for Mexico’s homicide rate. The brief also refutes the notion that the manufacturers’ marketing is designed to appeal to cartels by including images of the U.S. military and the American flag by highlighting the synergistic relationship between America’s firearms culture and the military use of arms.
NRA filed the brief along with the Independence Institute and FPC Action Foundation. We invite you to read the brief, here.
Please stay tuned to www.nraila.org for future updates on NRA-ILA’s ongoing efforts to defend your constitutional rights.
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And of course we have one hand of the LIEyer’s Guild washing its other hand, but there’s no soap and water ever involved, just more dirt, grease and grime! Not even just ONE LIEyer will ever dare to even think about being 100% honest and straight with the people of the world, because they are earning a living off of being DIShonest! Not even one LIEyer who is retired, no longer sucking up huge fees from the completely corrupted legal system’s preying upon the ignorant masses, will ever repent and apologize for their past crimes! It’s way too much for… Read more »
I don’t see any reason the US (or any State, City, or County) couldn’t sue Mexico for 10 times the amount the corruption kings would like to steal from US firearm manufacturers by abusing our courts. Fentanyl, cocaine, the new enhanced fentanyl that’s already killed a bunch of Americans here in the US, and lots of other illegal drugs are all coming from Mexico’s dope labs, and crossing through Mexico’s porous border. Perhaps individual members of the Mexican government might be included in the anti-drug lawsuit, beginning with the current and immediately past Mexican Presidents (or their estates if dead)… Read more »
I’m not convinced, he’s as hard core this time around. With people like Bondi, Rubio, Gorka… He’s really repeating all his past mistakes, but much worse.
Since it’s December 7th, let’s not forget the men who died at Pearl Harbor.
I wonder who wrote the brief? The same anti gun Dem mega donor who’s defending all the crooks at the NRA from their corruption charges… Bill Brewer?
Other than Eric Holders and Obummers fast and furious, I don’t know what Mexico is talking about. I stated this on another post about basically the same thing. We will pay Mexico even though we shouldn’t pay squat because we are not responsible for what their people do with the guns, but anyway, we will pay them right after they pay us the same amount for all the drugs that their cartels bring to America that are killing our children because if we are responsible for what their people do with the guns, then they should be held responsible for… Read more »