The Supreme Court announced last week that it is taking up a contentious gun case in which the government of Mexico is suing U.S. gun manufacturers. Mexico alleges the companies are raking in hundreds of millions in profits by “knowingly” flooding that country with military-grade assault weapons and other guns favored by the nation’s violent cartels.
The question before the high court is whether this case should be thrown out before trial. An appeals court ruled the case should go forward, because Mexico has a substantive case that gunmakers “aided and abetted the knowingly unlawful downstream trafficking of their guns.”
Who is sticking up for the gunmakers as allies at the Supreme Court? The allies include the National Rifle Association and the National Shooting Sports Foundation, but also one Sen. Ted Cruz, who has raked in more than $900,000 in gun money for his political career, and who is up for reelection in November in a tight race with House Democrat Colin Allred. A gun industry Super PAC has spent $630,000 boosting Cruz’s campaign so far.
The Texas senator has spearheaded — along with other far-right Congress members like Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene — an amicus brief, or friend-of-the-court filing, that reads more a friend-of-the-gun-industry beef. It insists that preserving gun profits is essential to safeguarding the Second Amendment. How so? Because “it would be impossible to exercise that right if a citizen could not lawfully purchase a firearm because the firearm industry had become insolvent.” In other words, Cruz is arguing, if this lawsuit were to drive the gun industry’s bad actors out of business, there wouldn’t be any gunmakers left.
– Tim Dickinson in Ted Cruz Wants Supreme Court to Protect Gunmakers Fueling Cartel Violence
Having seen how the cartels move people/guns/drugs/slaves for the last 2 decades at various levels in n my careers the idea that
1 there is a relevant Mexican government and
2 Anything US companies do is somehow responsible for the commies being run by drug gangs
is in anyway the fault of our industries a hilarious but expensively retarded frivolous suite.
Assuming a manufacturer’s profit 10% the price of ~$500 guns, you’d need 4 million guns going to Mexico to get to 200 million USD (the bare minimum to be “hundreds of millions). At that point, isn’t it the border enforcement’s fault?
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