Supreme Court weighs Mexico's lawsuit against gun manufacturers

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

46% : "At issue," Reuters reported, "is whether Mexico's suit should be dismissed under a 2005 federal law called the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act that broadly shields gun companies from liability for crimes committed with their products -- or whether the alleged conduct of the companies falls outside these protections, as the lower court found.
46% : Liberal Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson told Stetson that "all of the things that you asked for in this lawsuit," including changes to the U.S. firearm industry's safety, distribution and marketing practices, "would amount to different kinds of regulatory constraints that I'm thinking Congress didn't want the courts to be the ones to impose.
45% : They are opposed to an appeal court's ruling in January 2024 that the Mexican government's US $10 billion lawsuit could proceed on the grounds that "Mexico's complaint plausibly alleges a type of claim that is statutorily exempt from the ... general prohibition" of the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA).
45% : Noel Francisco, lawyer for Smith & Wesson and Interstate Arms, said that Mexico's "theory is that federally licensed manufacturers sell firearms to licensed distributors, who sell to licensed retailers, a small percentage of whom sell to straw purchasers, some of whom transfer to smugglers, who then smuggle them into Mexico, hand them over to cartels, who in turn use them to commit murder and mayhem, all of which requires the government of Mexico to spend money." "Needless to say, no case in American history supports that theory, and it's squarely foreclosed by the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act," he said.
45% : " No deal on tariff negotiations and time is up, Trump says "The government of Mexico has afforded safe havens for the cartels to engage in the manufacturing and transportation of dangerous narcotics," it said.
36% : NBC News reported that during oral arguments on Tuesday, "both conservative and liberal justices seemed skeptical of the arguments made by Mexico that its claims could move forward despite a federal law" -- the PLCAA -- being "intended to shield gun companies from liability.
32% : " However, Trump hasn't made any public commitment to do so. Hundreds of thousands of firearms are estimated to be smuggled into Mexico from the United States every year.

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