A group of eight US-based weapons companies asked the Supreme Court to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the government of Mexico holding them accountable for the flood of weapons steaming over Trump’s Wall and into the country, Reuters reports.
The seven manufacturers and one distributor want the Court to reinstate protections gun makers enjoy from civil suits under the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, which shields gun makers from product liability laws covering other manufacturers. The First Circuit Court in Boston found Mexico’s lawsuit fell within a narrow exception to the rule, saying Mexico’s case focuses on business practices of the companies that aided and abetted illegal gun trafficking.
Claiming “Mexico’s lawsuit has no business in American courts,” apparently against anything from south of the border, the gun companies said that if the case could goes forward, they could be subjected suits by any “foreign sovereign that is trying to bully the industry into adopting a host of gun-control measures that have been repeatedly rejected by American voters.” In other words, the gun companies think they reign over sovereign nations.