Washington – President Trump blames Mexico in Fintanel and other dangerous drugs that come across the southern border.
But Mexico blames the United States and its makers for its gunman to arm the drug gangs with high -capacity military guns that come across the border from the north.
“Mexico has one weapon store in the entire nation, however the nation is mired in weapons,” lawyers for The Mexican government told the US Supreme Court.
They said that these American offensive weapons are used to “assassinating politicians, attacking the army, killing and wounding judges, journalists, police and ordinary citizens.”
The case was before the Supreme Court on Tuesday because the Mexican government asked to help US courts. Filed a lawsuit against seven manufacturers and a rifle distributor in a federal court in Massachusetts seeking billions of dollars in compensation and new borders to market weapons in military style.
To surprise the arms industry, Mexico won an initial tour of the US Court of Appeal in Boston.
In 2005, Congress adopted a law overlooking arms makers and arms sellers to be responsible for murder, crimes and other damage caused by “illegal misuse” of a firearm.
A federal judge rejected Mexico claims based on the Shield Law, but the Court of Appeal does not agree to it. The Three Judges Committee indicated the allegations that the borrowing makers chose to provide violent drug gangs by sending huge numbers of weapons in the military style of merchants along the border.
They told the court: “One of the agents deliberately sold 650 rifles for straw buyers that were recruited by the drug cardm after providing advice to buyers on how to avoid applying the law.”
However, the judges voted to hear an appeal from the plaintiff’s makers, and it seemed that they tend to reject the lawsuit.
“It is difficult to imagine a clearly prohibited suit,” said Washington’s lawyer Noel Francisco. “Mexico filed a lawsuit against a group of leading American firearms companies, which seeks to take responsibility under Mexican law for the damage incurred by the Mexican government as a result of the commitment of Mexican drug gangs with firearms in Mexico.”
During the argument on Tuesday, most of the judges, liberals and conservatives, seemed skeptical of the Mexico suit.
Judge Clarence Thomas wondered whether there was any evidence that borrower makers had violated the law.
Judge Elena Kagan said it is not clear that the urgent makers are working with or those responsible for merchants who sell weapons along the border.
It will take several months before the court handed over a decision in a case Smith & Wesson vs. Estados Unidos Mexicanos.